Owen Turner-major
Senior Engineer at Novakid Inc
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Turner-major is a senior engineer and former founder/CTO with 10 years of experience building marketplaces and consumer products from scratch, most notably co-founding Fat Llama (YC S17) which raised $13.2M and was acquired. He blends hands-on engineering with product-led growth expertise, having led early-stage PMF and MVP work at startups and later scaled education technology at Lingumi, impacting over 2 million families. Comfortable across the stack, Owen focuses on marketplace dynamics, product teams and engineering management, and brings a founder’s instinct for experiment-driven roadmaps. Based in London, he pairs an Oxford background in Philosophy and German with recent machine learning study, a mix that surfaces in pragmatic, user-centered technical decisions.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and German, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and German at University of OxfordMachine Learning, Machine Learning at MLX Institute
Chinese, English, German
Stackoverflow
953reputation
84kreached
30answers
13questions
Github Skills (142)
react9
localization8
internationalization8
javascript8
mongoose8
material-ui8
webpack8
android8
nodejs8
translation8
locker7
backend7
simple-email-service7
slide7
react-components7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
otajor/Notes
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 24 PRs, 55 pushes in 1 year 1 month
notesmachine-learning
fatlama/backend-challenge
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Fat Llama Backend Coding Challenge
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 7 comments in 6 months
fatjavascriptexpressllamabackend
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