Summary
Christopher Owen is a seasoned software engineer and leader with over 20 years of experience delivering scalable, high-impact software across web, mobile, and mission-critical systems. He combines hands-on development with strategic leadership, having guided engineering teams at Atlassian (Jira Service Management, Mobile Engineering, Principal Architect) and currently leading software as Lead Software Engineer at Mawson Rovers. In his current role, he helps build payload and ground-control software for the Waratah Seed WS-1 space qualification mission and maintains live dashboards for WS-1 and CUAVA-2. His technical strengths span Java, concurrent programming, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Ruby, Objective-C, Swift, and scalable system design, with a track record of shipping software used by thousands of organizations worldwide. He has hands-on cloud experience, including deploying and managing AWS services, and emphasizes security, reliability, and agile delivery. Based in Sydney, Australia, he holds a BCompSc from the University of Newcastle in Computer Science, Software Engineering, and Mathematics.
12 years of coding experience