Owen Wiggins
Founder, CEO, Principal Software Engineer at owx.dev Co.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolOwen Wiggins is a founder and principal software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance games, cloud platforms, and AI-driven products from Vancouver. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering with senior management experience at Google and multiple game studios, shipping scalable systems, CI/CD pipelines, and zero-downtime cloud infrastructures. Owen has led teams and companies through founding, acquisition, and growth, while delivering measurable improvements in testing, performance, and experimentation that generated millions in ARR. His recent work includes productionizing a Mixture-of-Experts AI agent for complex chess reasoning and a bespoke React chess client, reflecting a rare mix of systems programming, ML, and game UX. He’s passionate about healthy, inclusive teams and experiments regularly through prototyping and data-driven decision making.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) w/Co-op, Cognitive Systems: Computational Intelligence and Design (Computer Science, Philosophy, Psychology), Bachelor of Science (BSc) w/Co-op, Cognitive Systems: Computational Intelligence and Design (Computer Science, Philosophy, Psychology) at The University of British Columbia
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (20)
placement9
fen8
chess8
validation8
draw8
configurations7
linux7
macos6
python6
javascript6
scientific-computing5
hpc5
multiple-versions5
windows5
package-manager4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kindjie/minesweeper
Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Example code in Python 2.7.x using only the standard library. This a terminal app that requires support for UTF-8 and curses.
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 7 months
terminal-apppythonutfutf-8requires
kindjie/6502Assembly
Jan 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 6 months
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