Owen Sawyer
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Sawyer is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, scalable backend systems, currently driving production services at Amazon. He specializes in microservices architecture and low-latency Java and Python systems, with hands-on experience deploying and operating global platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kafka and Ansible. His background includes building an ad exchange processing billions of daily transactions and financial market tooling optimized for latency and massive data aggregation. Comfortable across the full stack, he has implemented CI/CD and automated deployment pipelines, monitoring/analytics stacks, and event-driven asynchronous services. A University of Toronto computer science graduate, he blends rigorous academic foundations with practical production engineering and an interest in language processing tools from earlier NLP work.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of TorontoProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OwenSawyer/dog-classifier
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:122 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
OwenSawyer/Spotifeel
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 12 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 months
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