Owen Leung

Hong Kong, China

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Owen Leung is a chartered structural engineer and seasoned construction leader with over 35 years’ experience delivering complex design-build projects across Asia, Europe and the US. He founded and ran a California construction company, led major civil and theme-park works in Hong Kong and Macau, and has hands-on experience setting up factories and overseas offices in China and Vietnam. Skilled in coordinating multidisciplinary teams, permitting, site productivity and dispute resolution, he has managed high-profile airport, maritime reclamation and luxury hotel programs to completion and handover. Unusually for a senior engineer, he also contributes code and DevOps improvements to prominent open-source projects like Apache Airflow and Kafka, focusing on logging, storage and deployment reliability. Based in Hong Kong, Owen blends practical site experience with systems thinking to streamline delivery under tight statutory and operational constraints. He brings a rare mix of technical design, construction management and software-savvy operational improvements to complex infrastructure programs.

5 years of coding experience

36 years of employment as a software developer

Associateship, Civil and Structural Engineering, Associateship, Civil and Structural Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic

A level study, A level study at Loughborough Technical College UK

Secondary education, Secondary education at Tang King Po School

Chinese

Github Skills (25)

opensearch10

python10

amazon-elasticsearch10

kafka10

java10

javas10

release-management10

elasticsearchquery10

aws-elasticsearch10

airflow10

elasticsearch10

logging10

elasticsearch-api10

git9

kubernetes9

Programming languages (6)

JavaC++RustHandlebarsGoPython

Github contributions (5)

apache/airflow

May 2023 - Apr 2025

Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:34 reviews, 28 PRs, 123 comments in 1 year 10 months

Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on updating and improving the Elasticsearch integration for the Apache Airflow project. Their work included upgrading the Elasticsearch client and refining the logging capabilities, incorporating features to directly write logs to Elasticsearch and also fix ES remote logging. They also addressed code quality issues and added unit tests. Additionally, the user made changes related to istio and kubernetes, contributing to the deployment and operational aspects of the project.

monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically

apache/kafka

May 2023 - Oct 2024

Mirror of Apache Kafka

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer

Contributions:47 reviews, 11 PRs, 80 comments in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Owen contributed to the Apache Kafka project by implementing features related to the LocalTieredStorage, including file management and remote storage interactions, demonstrated by changes to Java test code. They also made improvements to the release process, introducing prerequisite checks within the `release.py` script to ensure a smoother build and deployment. Further contributions included handling potential git push failures gracefully in the release workflow and adding documentation regarding producer metrics.

apache-kafkakafka-consumerapachescalakafka

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