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Owen Marsh

@owenthesoftwaredev

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I'm a software engineer out of Ontario, Canada with strong experience in AWS and data engineering.

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to work in a fast paced, startup-type environment with a lot of challenges, responsibility, and teamwork. Less meetings, more doing.

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

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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

Elasticache RDS Aurora Kinesis S3 Lambda Tomcat EC2 EMR Spark Python Git PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Redis Athena Java AWS Elastic Beanstalk Database Design

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

Redis Elasticache SQL MySQL PostgreSQL RDS Aurora Athena Kinesis Glue S3 Lambda Tomcat EC2 Spark Scala DynamoDB Python Git Subversion Java EMR Redshift AWS Management Database Design Elastic Beanstalk

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

Subversion Python DynamoDB Scala EC2 Tomcat Lambda S3 Athena Redshift Aurora RDS PostgreSQL MySQL SQL Elasticache Redis Java Spark EMR Kinesis AWS Elastic Beanstalk AWS Glue Database Design

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.

Salesforce jQuery MySQL SQL CSS HTML WordPress PHP Database Design

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.

Subversion C++jQuery MySQL CSS HTML WordPress PHP Objective C Database Design

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.