Owen Klaiss

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Information and Communications Technology, Computer Science, Internet of Things and the web are my passions.
Current Senior Software Engineer at GoPro building high performance cloud backend systems with complex, multi-nodal interactions that support tens of thousands of simultaneous users.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

GoPro - San Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer at GoPro. Building scalable and highly-available cloud based systems and delivering on deadline-driven projects.

  • Design and implement user and cloud-to-device communication, authentication, management and administration microservice based APIs that work with a variety of GoPro devices. Facilitated successful launches of Hero6, Hero7, Hero8, Max cameras.
  • Build media processing, storing and streaming pipeline with in-house transcoding.
  • Design and launched GoPro's Live Streaming platform and features such as Two Factor Authentication.
  • Build containerized applications using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, GoLang, Redis, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases.
  • Extensive experience with AWS Stack.
  • Project manage multiple teams.
  • Conduct interviews, expand engineering teams and mentor new hires.
  • Member of GoPro Cybersecurity Counsel.

July 2017 - Present

Software Engineer

Cratebind - Dallas, TX

Full stack software engineer using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, and PostgreSQL to build highly secure, robust, and scalable web applications.

October 2015 - October 2016

Software Engineering Intern

GoPro - San Francisco, CA
May 2016 - August 2016
May 2015 - August 2015

Education

Southern Methodist University

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science - Software Engineering Track

GPA: 3.8/4.0
Member: Hilltop Scholars Residential Honors Community

August 2013 - May 2017

Sacred Heart Preparatory High School

August 2009 - May 2013

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Project Management
  • Hiring and mentorship
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Distributed System Design

Certifications

  • Amazon Web Services Security Operations Training