Owen Sikes
Staff Engineer at Linq
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolOwen Sikes is a Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and mobile products, now based in Birmingham, Alabama. He’s worked across startups and scale-ups—from co-founding and exiting Clutch!, an Airbnb-like marketplace for game-day parking, to senior engineering and leadership roles at Landing and Shipt. Technically versatile, Owen specializes in JavaScript and mobile development while also bringing deep .NET/C#, Objective-C, SQL and MongoDB experience to cross-platform projects. He has a proven track record managing React Native apps and leading engineering teams through growth, acquisitions, and product launches. Known for blending hands-on coding with strategic engineering leadership, he moves comfortably between shipping features and shaping architecture. A practical builder with entrepreneurial instincts, he often operates at the intersection of product, ops, and engineering to deliver measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at The University of Alabama
c#, sql, php, java
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Github Skills (122)
datepicker10
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android10
react-navigation10
ios10
react-native10
plaid10
react10
linux9
dates9
ratatui9
test-automation9
shell9
warp9
vue-datepicker9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
newshipt/ionicons
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 22 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 months
fontioniciconicon-fonticons
osikes/react-native-fast-image
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
🚩 FastImage, performant React Native image component.
Contributions:8 pushes in 12 days
reactimageimage-componentreact-nativenative-image
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