# Michael Owens > Software Engineer at HeyGen Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelowens Hungry software engineer, striving to be the best wherever I go and demonstrate excellence through constant self-improvement, building stakeholder relations, and holistic problem solving. Seeking full-time Software Engineer frontend or generalist role https://drive.google.com/file/d/10lEREcYWpnepbui3A0dkWHo_2niuKHlk/view ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ HeyGen Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States Growth Team - Present Core Product Team - July 2024 - September 2025 ### Senior Software Engineer @ Instacart Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Search Team ### Software Engineer @ Zoox Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | United States Software Engineer – Vue.js, Vuex, HTML, CSS, Typecript, C++, python Infrastructure – Argus – mission replayer and 3d visualizer web app  Defined use cases with stakeholders, designed, and implemented features for Argus, a mission analysis tool used by 80% of the software org.  Designed and implemented CPP audio library that enabled developers to read audio data from robot data, then edit and transcode to WAV format.  Designed and implemented Audio Widget that enabled audio playback in Argus to enable Audio Perception to debug in Argus  Enabled users to mark perception obstacle(s) Featured Entities in Argus that reduced friction for Perception engineers  Designed and implemented user feedback flow to enable users to request features and report bugs  Implemented application monitoring and tracking that lead to continuous discovery and resolution of ‘silent’ runtime errors  Re-designed Argus’ layout  Consulted for Perception Tools, Computer Cluster, Robot Pairing Service, and Vehicle Operator Tooling teams on their front end tools; implementing features, code review, design, establishing best practices, and mentoring ### Software Engineer @ Udacity Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 Creator Tools –Internal Tooling • Implemented redesign of Creator Tools react / redux app that enabled content developers to manage course and program content • Implemented Releases UI feature • Implemented analytics via segment.io in Creator Tools app ### Software Engineer @ Guidewire Software Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Foster City Manta Pod – Analytics CloudBI UI platform • Used Angular.js to obfuscate complexity and to create wrapper UI for Kibana that featured two roles, one targeted towards business users and allowed creation and edit of dashboards and categories, and one for a ‘power user’ that allowed creation of new Kibana indexes • Used Angular.js to write plugin for Kibana that allowed users to keyword search ClaimCenter databases and link to specific Claim • Implemented and automated Spark checkpointing, which allows for a Spark job to recover from the last checkpoint if a machine should fail instead of starting from the beginning • Used Angular.js to fix UI bugs for ClaimCanvas and allow users to link out to ClaimCenter or PolicyCenter depending on user origin • Used AWS S3 + CloudFormation to configure bucket authorizations that allowed specified third party data providers to write to bucket • Setup Jenkins build automation to automatically test and deploy Explore-Spark repo on commit to master Orion Pod – Developed next generation highly customizable and metadata-driven web framework built on top of React.js • Used React based Orion framework to create Connections Admin UI – single page application UI to add, remove, edit, and display connections to Kafka topics • Refactored app on initialization to request only page blocking metadata, which shortened initial app load time • Designed and implemented variety of components and helper classes ### Full Stack Software Engineer @ 500 Miles Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto Spearheaded full stack development of 500 Miles consumer and enterprise web app. • Built and launched billing, which enabled the company to collect billing information and payment from new and existing customers on a reoccurring monthly cycle • Built and launched candidate search features for employer enterprise web app, which enabled customers to perform keyword searches with dynamic filters for candidates • MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node ### Contract Software Engineer @ Step.com Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Remote • Built and launched the web app that matches Product Managers and Developer job seekers with startups in NYC • Durandal, Bootstrap, jQuery, s3 ### Software Engineer Intern @ SugarCRM Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cupertino Developed SugarCRM's in house framework: core front end components in Backbone JS. ### Intern @ Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Ph.D.Laboratory Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | UC Davis Medical Center Investigating the effects of western diet induced steatosis on liver regeneration. Investigates the effects of retinoic acid induced cell proliferation on liver regeneration. Perform animal experiments on mouse on B7 WT and FXR KO mice (gavage, IP-injection, tail-line injection, blood collection). Responsible for processing tissue samples. Co-writing review paper. ### Student @ UC Davis Jan 2009 – Jan 2014 | UC Davis Completed B.S. genetics requirements. Completed computer sciences courses up through Introduction to AI programming and Introduction to computation Completed basic Chinese in 1 year (normally takes 2) Completed two quarters of upper division Chinese language ### Engineering @ Tradecraft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ### Intern @ Peking Union Medical College Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Zhang Laboratory ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Genetics University of California, Davis ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/1michaelowens --- Source: https://flows.cv/michaelowens JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaelowens/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11