Kevin Owocki
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Owocki is a seasoned founder and software leader with 13+ years building scalable web and blockchain systems, best known as co-founder of Gitcoin where he designs mechanisms to fund public goods on Ethereum. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Django, Solidity, MySQL/Postgres) with product and team leadership, having grown engineering orgs up to 24 people and led startups through acquisition and VC raises. Kevin runs multiple ventures including WEST Software Services and a venture studio for regenerative web projects, and he’s active in the blockchain community as an organizer and early Solidity practitioner. His work has been covered by major outlets from The New York Times to WIRED, yet he still maintains a playful hacker ethos—“i spin bits for fun & profit”—and keeps side projects and writing on owocki.com and GitHub.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Delaware
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Github Skills (200)
cryptocurrency10
firefox10
api10
angularjs10
hardhat10
smart-contracts10
wallet10
exchange10
browser-extension10
graph10
bitcoin10
metamask10
chrome10
django-framework10
trading10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
owocki/s3_disk_util
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
Like `du` but for S3
Contributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 5 months
diskfatntfsglibcaws-s3
gitcoinco/GIPs
Mar 2018 - May 2021
Gitcoin Improvement Proposals
Contributions:11 PRs, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 2 months
proposalsblockchaingitcoinbitcoinimprovement
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