Summary
Owen Rockwell is a Senior Front End Software Engineer based in Melbourne with eight years of experience crafting user-focused web applications and platform features. He currently shapes React + TypeScript products at StarRez, bringing disciplined testing (Cypress, Jest) and a cross-functional mindset that blends product, design, and strategy. Previously he led web teams at Megaphone, growing headcount, introducing testing and workflow practices that cut non-development time by 30% and production issues by 50%, and built a reusable component library adopted company-wide. Comfortable across legacy stacks (PHP, MySQL, CodeIgniter) and modern front-end tooling, he pairs technical depth with UX sensibility and a pragmatic approach to accessibility. Colleagues would describe him as detail-oriented and dependable—“too committed to committing” sums up his penchant for consistent, incremental delivery.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate II & III in Multimedia, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Academic Distinction, Certificate II & III in Multimedia, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Academic Distinction at Wesley College