I write code that’s easy to delete and hard to break.

I’m Owen. I’ve been building software for a bit over twelve years — first at Microsoft in Redmond, then back home in New York with Google and Apple. In 2023 I traded the badge for a library card and went independent.

My week splits roughly in two. Half goes to a small family of open source tools — bodega, stoop, crosstown, driftwatch — and half to freelance builds for teams who want something made well and handed over cleanly. No retainers, no depending on me sticking around: I build it, document it, and teach your team to run it.

Off the clock: long rides over the Manhattan Bridge, a standing Tuesday at Barbès in Park Slope, and a bacon-egg-and-cheese ranking I take more seriously than most production incidents.