Owen Klaiss

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

Experience

Software Engineer

GoPro - San Francisco, CA

Backend engineer working on Identity and Edge Services

  • Design and implement user and cloud-to-device communication, authentication, management and administration microservices that work with a variety of GoPro devices.
  • Provide extensive API functionality for multiple external consumers with dissimilar and unique needs (different platforms, languages and development cycles).
  • Developed and launched features such as Two Factor Authentication, Smart Firmware and Multi-Region Hosting
  • Build containerized applications using technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Go, Redis, and Postgresql.
  • Increase performance and reliability of GoPro applications through rigorous load testing.
  • Extensive experience with AWS ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, Cloudwatch, etc.
  • Member of GoPro Cybersecurity Counsel

July 2017 - Present

Associate Software Engineer

GoPro - San Francisco, CA
July 2017 - February 2018

Web Developer

Cratebind - Dallas, TX

Full stack developer 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
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Distributed System Design

Certifications

  • Amazon Web Services Security Operations Training