Owen Waller
Director & Co-Founder at Kulawe Limited
Mid Sussex, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOwen Waller is a seasoned software delivery leader and co-founder with 11+ years of hands-on experience coaching organisations to ship higher-quality software faster using Agile, Lean, DevOps, Scrum and XP practices. As Director of Kulawe Limited he specialises in transforming teams’ delivery pipelines—reducing lead times and defects while increasing test coverage and confidence—by introducing executable specifications and continuous alignment between code and requirements. He pairs practitioner-level engineering experience (including backend QA work on the high-profile Hugo static site generator) with practical training and consultancy for clients across sectors. Owen also founded Gophercoders to teach programming to children using Go, showing a commitment to developer education and accessible tooling. Comfortable working 100% remotely, he prefers UK engagements outside IR35 and brings a PhD background in simulation and AI that underpins a methodical, evidence-driven approach to improving software processes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD., Human Simulation, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Path Planning, Kinematics, Robot, PhD., Human Simulation, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Path Planning, Kinematics, Robot at Queen's University Belfast
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Github Skills (10)
test-automation10
unit-testing10
go10
static-site-generator10
testing10
debug9
debugging9
blog-engine8
content-management7
content-management-system7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gohugoio/hugo
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
The world’s fastest framework for building websites.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Hugo project. They introduced and refactored test files for various modules, including helpers (general, URL, path, and content). Their work involved writing and updating test cases, fixing bugs, and ensuring the reliability of the codebase by addressing test failures and improving test coverage. Furthermore, they were involved in debugging and correcting the safe write to disk feature.
cmshugoblog-enginedocumentation-toolfastest
owenwaller/vugu
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Vugu: A modern UI library for Go+WebAssembly (experimental)
Contributions:124 pushes, 110 branches in 1 year 4 months
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