Owen Synge
Senior Software Engineer at useblocks GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolOwen Synge is a senior software engineer based in Hamburg with over two decades of Linux, storage and datacenter automation experience and 11 years focused on professional development in Python and Rust. He translates user feedback into pragmatic specifications, architects simpler solutions for complex distributed systems, and has helped deploy storage and cloud systems across more than 160 data centers. Comfortable across the stack, he has led CI/CD, release management and mass-deployment efforts on Red Hat and Debian platforms and built high-performance shared-memory services and CAS-style versioning systems in Rust. He has steered transitions from monoliths to microservices and from REST to message-driven architectures while leading ML and backend teams, demonstrating both hands-on coding and strategic design. An early adopter of Rust since 2017 who continues to teach and refine best practices, he pairs scientific-research roots with commercial delivery at scale.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
NorthGate High schoolMSC IP Computer Science, MSC IP Computer Science at University of YorkBSC Biochemistry, BSC Biochemistry at University of Bristol
german (basic level)
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (113)
rdma10
python10
fuse10
blob-storage10
backblaze10
infrastructure10
gossip10
remote-execution10
glusterfs10
openebs10
package-repository10
infrastructure-management10
persistent-storage10
scale10
high-performance10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
osynge/xunit-repo
Oct 2020 - Oct 2021
xunit web server, to store and present xunit tests over time.
Contributions:1 review, 89 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
hepix-virtualisation/vmcaster
Jan 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:37 pushes, 13 tags in 3 years 8 months
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