# Owen Webb

> Building @ Rilla

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/owenwebb

Building things :)

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Rilla
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Rilla
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer I @ Rilla
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Flipboard
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States
Backend Development, Infrastructure Management, and Data Engineering Practices

Innovating Flipboard's core technologies & processes by:
    - Streamlining app deployment via Helm, Terraform, and AWS for enhanced efficiency
    - Creating an API microservice for efficient bulk indexing and searching using AWS OpenSearch
    - Revitalizing ETLs for usage event processing through Amazon MSK, Apache Spark, Airflow, and a bespoke OpenSearch API, achieving over 50% runtime reduction with some cases up to 75%

Consistently leading the release of new service software updates to production every four weeks, ensuring continuous improvement and enhanced performance

### Software Engineering Intern @ Flipboard
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Used full-stack engineering to create a user facing endpoint in the web application complete with an API layer, database connectivity and retrieval
- Attached a third-party service to the product that now sees >1 million URLs daily 
- Pushed production grade code, directly reaching and impacting >10 million users per month
- Active member of the Core-Services and Infrastructure teams participating in problem solving efforts daily

### Course Teaching Assistant (Ninja), Computer Science Department @ Swarthmore College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
- Selected to serve as a TA for Computer Science courses

### Machine Learning Research Intern @ Curii
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Somerville, MA
- Developed approaches to analyze human genomic data (~20gb) from the Harvard Personal Genome Project 
- Created a workflow in Common Workflow Language to access genomic data from the Arvados platform 
- Wrote Python and R scripts to apply a chi-squared feature selection algorithm
- Automated the cross-validation process to minimize error using the glmnet package in R
- Participated in problem-solving efforts as a part of a software engineering team

### Course Tutor, Computer Science Department @ Swarthmore College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
- Qualified to serve as a tutor for the CS department helping peer students learn the fundamentals of CS


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Engineering
Swarthmore College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Swarthmore College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/owebb1

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Last updated: 2026-04-01