Todd Owen
Senior Backend Software Engineer at Canva
Perth, Western Australia
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Top SchoolTodd Owen is a senior backend engineer with 15 years of professional experience and deep expertise in database programming and big data systems, including four years working extensively with Apache Hadoop. He has built and productionised ETL frameworks, deployment tooling, and cloud-ready containers, and has a strong polyglot background in Scala, Python, Java and C/C++. Todd’s career spans public sector health data linkage and large financial institutions, where he combined algorithmic record-matching and data-quality work with pragmatic automation (CI/CD, blue/green releases) to make complex pipelines reliable and testable. Based in Perth and currently at Canva, he focuses on enabling other engineers and business users through well-designed tooling and operational patterns. Open to part-time opportunities (three days/week), he brings a rare blend of hands-on systems coding and long-term stewardship of data platforms.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at The University of Western Australia
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (89)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CommBank/thermometer
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
A micro-test framework for scalding pipes to make sure you don't get burnt
Contributions:17 PRs, 14 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 3 months
testingscaldingtest-frameworkpipes
CommBank/edge
Nov 2015 - Mar 2019
hdfs tools, taps, sinks, sources and alike for use with cascading and scalding.
Contributions:11 PRs, 14 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 4 months
qbcore-frameworktapsconnectorgarminreliable
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