Owens O'brien
Principal Engineer at 2U
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOwens O'brien is a Principal Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building and refining web applications for the edtech sector, currently driving architecture and delivery at 2U. Comfortable across Rails, Go, React and Salesforce Apex, he specializes in system integrations that improve student and administrator workflows and has repeatedly led refactors and rewrites to boost maintainability and UX. A remote-work advocate, he pairs hands-on coding with leadership from senior engineer to principal roles, mentoring teams through complex migrations and platform consolidation. Fascinated by Blockchain, AI, and Machine Learning, he brings curiosity-driven experimentation to production problems, often surfacing practical, less-obvious tradeoffs between innovation and reliability.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Psychology, Bachelor’s Degree Psychology at The City College of New YorkWeb Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General Assembly
Github Skills (13)
mongoose9
typescript8
mean-stack8
vscode-extension7
microsoft7
electron7
vscode7
editor7
language-learning7
visual-studio-code6
mongodb6
visual-studio6
nodejs5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
owenso/squawkwebapp
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:237 commits, 47 PRs, 205 pushes in 7 months
language-learningexpressnodejsmongoosemean-stack
sosnow/sosnow
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:95 PRs, 120 pushes, 56 branches in 7 days
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