Owen Nelson
Senior Software Engineer at Ditto
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Nelson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with a creative foundation in art and over a decade of production engineering experience across startups and studios. He blends aesthetic sensibility with pragmatic system design, favoring elegant solutions that respect real-world constraints—from Rust backends and React TypeScript SPAs to data-query work in Flux. Owen has led engineering practices and team workflows at Laika, contributed to query and dynamic typing improvements at InfluxData, and shipped integrations and developer-facing features at Svix and Ditto. He’s equally comfortable mentoring teams, reviewing architecture, and rolling up his sleeves for hands-on development and ops. An early background in animation and HPC gives him a unique perspective on performance, tooling, and pipeline resilience that informs his approach to building reliable systems. Known on GitHub as @onelson, he combines artistic instincts with a bias for pragmatic, well-crafted software.
3 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Computer Animation, BFA Computer Animation at Ringling College of Art and Design
Github Skills (31)
kotlin10
javascript10
python10
redis10
sarif10
supply-chain-security10
webhooks10
typescript10
kafka10
software-composition-analysis10
message-queue10
java10
ruby10
rabbitmq10
stream10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
svix-onelson/svix-webhooks
Dec 2024 - Jan 2025
The enterprise-ready webhooks service 🦀
Contributions:4 releases, 8 PRs, 38 pushes in 9 days
svix/omniqueue-rs
May 2023 - Mar 2025
A Queue Abstraction Layer for Rust (Redis, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.)
Contributions:40 reviews, 20 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 10 months
kafkapubsubrabbitmqredisredis-queue
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