# Evan Owski > Staff Software Engineer at Aurora Solar Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/evanowski I'm a versatile full-stack developer with an affinity for the front-end. I have over a decade of experience building Web applications. I enjoy beautiful code: code that is succinct, runs fast, and still makes sense 6 months later. I think holistically, and I'm just as comfortable working with product managers, designers, and UX researchers as I am with other engineers. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Aurora Solar Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States I was brought into Aurora through an acquisition of Folsom Labs. ### Lead Full Stack Engineer @ Folsom Labs Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area I helped build two successful products from the ground up. Because of my prior startup experience quickly bringing a product to market, I was tasked with building Easy Apply upon starting at LinkedIn. Easy Apply allows for pre-filling job application forms based on one's LinkedIn profile data. Within 4 months, we had 250,000 jobs supported by Easy Apply. The architecture I built served as the groundwork for growing and expanding the product to support millions of job applications today. At first, I primarily worked on our Java backend services, and then I migrated to our Ember-based frontend. After I left the project, I continued to advise the remaining engineers. After showing the ability to execute on new products with Easy Apply, I was brought on as one of the first five engineers on LinkedIn Talent Insights, an ambitious analytics product providing workforce metrics and competitive intelligence to businesses. I again worked throughout the stack both within the Java-based API layer and the Ember-based UI layer. LTI became one of the fastest growing products in LinkedIn history. I served in a technical leadership role, mentoring other engineers, participating in RFCs (LinkedIn's technical design document process), giving details code reviews, and serving for two years on our Hiring Committee. As a Staff SWE, I evaluated SWE and Senior SWE candidates for promotions, judging their craftsmanship, execution, and leadership abilities. I improved the communication and craftsmanship among our UI engineers by creating an opt-in meeting with a crowdsourced agenda where we could discuss pain points. This meeting spurred skill sharing and improvements in our testing infrastructure. I was a key engineer for solving the hardest to diagnose bugs. In a performance review, my manager said "If Evan has a super power, it is his debugging ability. Give him a bug and he will find the root cause no matter how deeply embedded it is." ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ### Co-Founder @ Heirloom Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, CA On our team of four engineers, I was heavily involved in all major technical decisions. I was the lead developer on our Web product, a standalone Javascript application written in Ember.js. I also served as the acting lead for our Platform services for 3 months and occasionally contributed to our iOS app. Our product grew to 80,000 users within a year of starting the company. Other duties: recruiting, assembling Ikea furniture, office IT, official lunch orderer. ### Senior Software Engineer @ TuneIn Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA I primarily wrote Backbone.js and Rails code for our ads and analytics application. I rewrote a substantial portion of our legacy Javascript codebase, reducing the size of the codebase by 30%. Working with our other front-end developers, I instituted practices that substantially improved code quality and maintainability. As our ads and analytics application consumed several data sources both internal and external, I spent some of my time investigating discrepancies between data sources to find the root cause. I also served as project lead for the revamp of our broadcaster payments system. For my first 6 months at TuneIn, I worked on various HTML/JS-based consumer electronics and automotive apps, including Samsung Smart TV and GM. During this period, I also contributed C# and JS code to TuneIn's Web product, tunein.com. ### Software Engineer @ TuneIn Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto, CA ### Software Engineer @ Backstop Solutions Group Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Chicago, IL At Backstop, I worked on an enterprise CRM and portfolio management web application. In my day-to-day, my toolkit included Java, JSP, Stripes, Javascript (especially jQuery), and FitNesse (an integration test framework). I implemented multi-file drag-and-drop uploads with per-user thread-limiting. I also created a service that provides business holidays for various exchanges and regions. Beyond the technical side of my job, I worked closely with our professional services and product management teams as well as our clients to craft solutions. ### Software Engineering Co-op Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Novi, MI and Lake Oswego, OR I worked as part of a multi-site software development team on a desktop CAD application. I designed and implemented new UI features and improved existing ones in C# and Managed C++, using both .NET components and third party libraries such as DevExpress. I created and maintained test drivers in both C++ and Scheme. I developed in a Windows environment, using such tools as Visual Studio, Incredibuild, Perforce, and DOS shell scripts. Note: I worked for Autodesk for 18 months over this period as part of the Northwestern University co-op program. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Novi, MI ## Education ### BS in Computer Engineering Northwestern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evanaowski --- Source: https://flows.cv/evanowski JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/evanowski/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12