Owen Swerkstrom
Digital Handyman at OSwerk
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Swerkstrom is a veteran software engineer and hands-on technical consultant with 14+ years of professional experience building client/server, web, and standalone applications. Known as a "Digital Handyman," he blends deep systems-level expertise in C, C++, and Python with modern web stacks (JavaScript, TypeScript) to solve practical problems for businesses large and small. He has led cross-border engineering teams and production releases, architected high-performance mail and server systems, and shipped integration gateways and API-driven platforms. Comfortable from low-level memory and protocol work up to asynchronous web UIs, Owen is equally at home reverse-engineering legacy systems or rapidly prototyping new solutions. Based in Minneapolis, he runs a local consulting practice and brings a lifelong curiosity—having coded since preschool—that makes him quick to adopt and teach new technologies.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Philosophy, BS, Computer Science, Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Github Skills (55)
json10
docker10
ffmpeg10
audio10
player10
meta9
manipulation9
mpv9
video-player9
mastodon9
jmap9
cli9
multimedia9
cgit9
activitypub8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
netmail-open/wjelement
Aug 2012 - Jun 2022
advanced, flexible JSON manipulation in C
Contributions:3 releases, 126 commits, 30 PRs in 9 years 11 months
manipulationjsonjson-manipulationflexible
penduin/halloweenartist
Oct 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:26 commits, 34 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years
physicstoysimulationlanternjack
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