About

I'm Owen, a full-stack engineer working on healthcare technology in the pharmacy benefits space. My days are spent in the claims pipeline: Go services, GraphQL APIs, React frontends, and the data work in between, from ingestion through adjudication to the reports that leave the building.

I didn't take the straight path here. I spent years on the operations side, managing teams and building the automation I wished existed, until the building part won. That background still shows in how I work: I care about the runbook as much as the feature, I write things down, and I measure before I claim something is fixed. When I joined my current team I had no Go experience; within a few months I was shipping production Go, and I'm now leading my first cross-functional initiative end to end.

Outside work hours I run my own infrastructure. Photos, passwords, documents, music, books, and an offline copy of Wikipedia all live on hardware I administer, behind a network design I audit myself. Some of that is practicality, most of it is principle: I think people should be able to own their tools and their data, and I build accordingly. The projects on the front page mostly grew out of that conviction.

Two threads run through everything I make. Accessibility, because software that only works for some people is broken software. And durability, because the best tools I use are decades old and I would like to build things that earn that kind of lifespan.

Away from a keyboard: classical guitar, long bike rides, woodworking, German wine, and cooking for whoever shows up.