Owen Niles — Resume
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Owen Niles

Work Experience

Moment · The AI operating system for investment management New York, NY
Founding Software Engineer Dec 2022–Jun 2026
  • Iteratively redesigned MCP tools for Moment's portfolio construction agent based on patterns of misuse, enabling it to reliably research bonds that improve client portfolio performance
  • Led full-stack initiatives to add real-time advanced bond spread analytics and tax-aware yields to the Moment platform, fulfilling a requirement from Moment's largest enterprise customer
  • Introduced oapi-codegen to generate type-safe server stubs from OpenAPI specs, eliminating drift between API docs and implementation
  • Distributed auto-generated Python protobuf bindings as a pip/uv-installable package, replacing a fragile manual workflow of copying bindings between applications
  • Built a local testing workflow for Moment's AWS MWAA pipelines, cutting iteration time from hour-long cloud deployments to minutes
  • Co-built Moment's first accounting system, a workhorse that tracked more than $10B in fixed income holdings for several years
  • Implemented Moment's first FIX trading and trade booking integrations, which handled more than $1B in trading volume over several years of use
Whist · A cloud-accelerated internet browser New York, NY
Software Engineer Sep 2020–Aug 2021; Jun 2022–Dec 2022
  • Customized the Amazon ECS container agent to inject cookies and session context into containerized browser tabs, keeping users logged into their sites in Whist's cloud-streamed browser
  • Replaced Whist's hand-rolled authentication flows with Auth0, trading custom auth code for a maintained, extensible provider
  • Built Whist's Stripe billing integration and macOS codesigning pipeline for desktop app distribution
Harvard CS 61 · Systems Programming and Machine Organization Cambridge, MA
Teaching Fellow Fall 2019
  • Taught weekly sections, held office hours, and graded problem sets and exams
Zoba · Fleet optimization and demand forecasting for micromobility companies Boston, MA
Software Engineer Intern Summer 2019
  • Learned Python web application development
  • Built geospatial data visualizations with Mapbox and Javascript

Education

Harvard College Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) in Computer Science; Secondary Field in Philosophy 2022

Tech Stack

Git & GitHub, Go, Docker, Postgres, TimescaleDB, Protobuf & gRPC, AWS, Linear, Python, Notion, Terraform, TypeScript, React, Airflow