Willie Owens
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWillie Owens is a senior full-stack software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, maintainable systems across consumer web and data-heavy enterprise domains. Currently at Microsoft after helping scale Smash.gg’s React + GraphQL platform for millions of users and transactions, he brings deep expertise across backend workflows, databases, DevOps deployments, and front-end performance engineering. His background at Urjanet shows strong experience with large Java microservices, AWS-driven data pipelines, and complex storage models (MySQL, Cassandra, BigQuery) powering global SLAs. Comfortable moving between low-level validation work and high-scale production services, he pairs practical systems thinking with a focus on reliability and cache-first performance patterns. Based in Atlanta, he’s known for turning operational constraints into efficient architecture decisions that reduce cost and latency.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (66)
xserver10
django9
api9
sentry9
monitor9
windows-subsystem-for-linux9
performance-monitoring8
azure8
error-logging8
monitoring8
python8
command-line-interface8
elasticmq8
azure-cli8
microsoft-teams8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
frolfr/frolfr-android
Jan 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 85 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 8 months
android-clientandroid
willieowens/dev-env-setup
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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