Owen Zila
Software Engineer 2 at Datadog
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Zila is a Software Engineer 2 based in the New York City area with nine years of experience building reliable systems and a strong research background in formal verification, model finding, and compilers. He progressed from internships at BrickSimple to research and teaching roles at the University of Waterloo, where he improved runtime efficiency by up to 64%, led release efforts, and mentored teams. At Datadog he has continued to apply rigorous engineering practices to production services. Owen combines academic depth (MMath in Computer Science) with hands-on product experience—comfortable turning formal methods into practical tooling and performance gains. An educator at heart, he has a track record of designing curricula and student projects that bridge theory and real-world software engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Stevens Institute of TechnologyMaster of Mathematics - MMath Computer Science, Master of Mathematics - MMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
fortress8
finder7
logic7
first-order-logic7
css1
javascript1
game-development1
bootstrap1
angularjs1
angular1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
WatForm/evaluation-scripts
Dec 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
otzzila/game-jam-c
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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