Sean Owens
Software Engineer at Mapbox
Greater Philadelphia United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Owens is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable, mission-driven applications for enterprise customers, currently shaping navigation products like CoPilot and Mapbox services. A Penn State CS graduate, he has driven feature delivery across mobile platforms—adding live parking, Android Auto and early Apple CarPlay support—while measurably reducing crash rates through disciplined telemetry and investigation. He pairs production engineering with data-savvy problem solving from prior roles creating automated Power BI/Alteryx pipelines that cut manual workflows from hours to seconds. Outside work he produces technical cybersecurity content for 41,000 YouTube subscribers, using tools like Ghidra to reverse-engineer videogame binaries and explain complex exploitation concepts simply. This blend of practical shipping experience and public technical education makes him effective at translating low-level technical detail into reliable, user-focused products.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (28)
ros10
drones9
java-bindings9
jogl8
user-guide8
rover8
mavlink8
autopilot8
px47
java7
lwjgl7
java-api7
client-library7
raspberry-pi7
opendds6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
seanrowens/oObjLoader
Feb 2012 - Oct 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 8 comments in 3 years 8 months
seanrowens/MAVSDK-docs
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
MAVSDK Guide Docs - Source Code
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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