Evan Owen
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorEvan Owen is a seasoned software leader and founder, currently CEO and co-founder of Glue, building the future of work communication from San Francisco. With 15 years of engineering leadership, he has steered teams across Glue, Clearbit, Zinc by ServiceMax, Recurly, Spire Labs, and early ventures, delivering scalable, enterprise-grade software. An active open-source contributor, he notably enhanced GraphicsMagick for Node (gm) by expanding stream-based image processing, introducing ReadableStreams, and broadening format support. His career blends hands-on backend engineering with strategic product and people leadership, consistently shipping reliable systems at scale. He holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and combines entrepreneurial grit with deep technical depth to drive product-led growth.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
file-handling10
file-processing10
stream10
javascript10
file-io10
node-js10
javascripts10
file-access10
graphicsmagick10
fileio10
image-processing10
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
aheckmann/gm
Nov 2011 - Dec 2011
GraphicsMagick for node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 16 days
Contributions summary:Evan significantly enhanced the `gm` library, focusing on improving stream handling and expanding its functionality. They introduced support for input and output streams, allowing for more flexible image processing. Furthermore, the user implemented stream-based operations, including a `stream()` method for returning image data via ReadableStreams. Additional contributions involved refactoring code, adding convenience methods, and supporting various image formats, including handling GIF frames, thereby extending the library's capabilities and usability.
graphicsmagicknodejs
kainosnoema/terracost-cli
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:1 release, 55 commits, 2 pushes in 6 days
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