I'm looking to work in a fast paced, startup-type environment with a lot of challenges, responsibility, and teamwork. Less meetings, more doing.
Owen Marsh
@owenthesoftwaredev
I'm a software engineer out of Ontario, Canada with strong experience in AWS and data engineering.
CanadaWhat I'm looking for
Recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for technical communication and coding, as well as for research, complex problem solving and management, I have a verifiable history of contributing directly to company growth and expansion throughout my career. Professional focal points include strong interpersonal skills, critical thinking, strategic decision making, and a multitude of technical talents. I have the following certifications:
AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty
AWS Certified Database – Specialty
Career highlights include:
Developed a Java real-time-bidder with sub 10ms response times, using AWS Beanstalk, Tomcat, and Elasticache (Redis)
Designed and implemented an event ingestion pipeline using Java, AWS Beanstalk, Tomcat, Kinesis, Redis, and S3
Created an Elastic Map Reduce Spark program to build and update an S3 data warehouse of ad sessions query-able by AWS Athena
Spearheaded initiative which reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 45% ($65k/month down to $35k/month)
Experience
Senior Data Engineer
Liftoff Mobile
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 4 months)
• One of the original, key engineers that helped build a small startup - Tresensa Technologies - into a business worthy of acquisition by the Blackstone owned adtech company, Vungle.
• Vungle subsequently merged with Liftoff creating one of the world’s largest adtech companies.
• Orchestrated the integration of Tresensa data collection into the Vungle and Liftoff ecosystems.
• Led the sunsetting
Technical Director
TreSensa Technologies
Jan 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 6 months)
• Managed the Data and Sysops team effectively in a fast-paced start-up environment.
• Provided leadership and day-to-day direction for all phases of the software development lifecycle.
• Spearheaded initiative which reduced AWS infrastructure costs by 45%.
• Streamlined processes to improve information retrieval, such as refactoring ad-event ingestion to make unprocessed data immediately query-ab
Senior Software Engineer
TreSensa Technologies
Apr 2014 - Dec 2019 (5 years 8 months)
• Developed a Java real-time-bidder with sub 10ms response times, using AWS Beanstalk, Tomcat, and Elasticache (Redis).
• Designed and implemented an event ingestion pipeline using Java, AWS Beanstalk, Tomcat, Kinesis, Redis, and S3.
• Performed software verification, wrote unit tests, and created integration testing systems that used both known and real-time incoming data.
• Developed software ap
Contract Software Engineer
Actify
Nov 2007 - Dec 2015 (8 years 1 month)
• Moved global Actify web sites to WordPress/WPML powered multi-language CMS.
• Facilitated numerous site redesigns
• Integrated product trial download forms with license manager, Salesforce, and Siebel CRM using PHP.
Contract Software Engineer
Littlegrey Media
Jul 2007 - Dec 2015 (8 years 5 months)
• Instrumental in the development of an iPad launch game, using C++ and Objective-C.
• Ported numerous Flash ActionScript 3 games to iPhone, iPad, and Blackberry.
• Designed the technical architecture of a PHP/Mysql based leaderboard for iPhone, iPad, and Blackberry games.
• Built and maintained social websites and an early video aggregator.
Contract Software Engineer
TreSensa Technologies
Oct 2012 - Mar 2014 (1 year 5 months)
• Responsible for software development including technical design, software implementation, test development and execution, troubleshooting and technical documentation.
• Developed, tested and implemented PHP backend for HTML5 game distribution and high capacity high-score leader board framework using AWS EC2 and RDS (MySQL).
• Constructed and maintained WordPress powered websites.
Tech stack
Learn about the tools and technologies that Owen likes to use.
Amazon Redshift
Apache Spark
AWS Glue
Amazon Redshift Spectrum
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
GitHub
Bitbucket
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Amazon CloudFront
Redsmin
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
jQuery
JavaScript
Python
Java
PHP
Scala
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
WordPress
AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS
Amazon Aurora
Git
SVN (Subversion)
Apache Tomcat
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon EMR
1Password
Amazon Athena
SQL
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