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about

hey, i'm owen.

i'm a software engineer from Vancouver, British Columbia. For the last 3 years, I have been building and maintaining backend systems for local companies and startups.

in my free time i enjoy working on personal apps, going on a walk, making some music, or learning new frameworks and tools.

what i do

backend systems

designing and building secure, performant backend services. from system architecure and API design to auth, security, and performance profiling.

infrastructure & ci/cd

managing containerization, ci/cd pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and just helping the team ship without breaking core features.

learning

always studying and brushing up on system architecture, program design principles, and different ways of approaching problems such as functional programming.

right now

learning rust, TUI development, and distributed systems with elixir. i enjoy working on my next.js clothing website, making sure transactions are secure, and the frontend looks cool for the ~40 daily users.

my journey

a quantum physicist turned programming hobbyist (kind of).

2023 the start

i was at UBC hoping to be a quantum physicist but i felt like the problems i was solving didn't have any impact in the real world. so i left and started learning C on my own. shortly after, i joined BCIT's Computer Systems Technology program in hopes of getting hands-on experience with building applications and solutions within teams.
2024 getting reps in

the fast paced learning at BCIT forced me to go deep into programming fundamentals, object-oriented programming, networking, operating systems, web development, and much more. it was really hard but i enjoyed knowing more and more about the software running our world, and all the different ways to create it.
2026 shipping for real

now i was learning industry standard frameworks, tools, and tech stacks. a lot of my earlier projects were local or hosted with some 3rd party service, but now i had to learn how to deploy it myself using either cloud services or in-house infrastructure. real production environments was a real learning curve for me, but having the responsibility of managing uptimes and deployments made me more confident in my abilities.