Owen Abel Amenze Software Engineer / London

Selected systems, kept deliberately brief.

Work

I am most useful where product sense meets technical ambiguity: clarifying messy requirements, shaping reliable systems, and making the quiet details hold under real use.

2025-26

Fete Finder

A cultural event discovery platform for Fete de la Musique, built to make a large, scattered programme feel findable.

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Tension
A city-wide programme is only useful if people can move through it by place, time, taste, and confidence.
Owned
Listings, maps, event pages, partner placements, admin workflows, and launch readiness under real campaign traffic.
Signal
Supported 3,000+ registrations and 50,000+ unique visitors during launch.
Product
2023-26

Jisc

Work across Open Policy Finder and the Digital Experience Content Management System, where policy data and public publishing both needed steadier systems.

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Tension
Open access compliance depends on policy, journal, and transitional-agreement data being searchable and trustworthy ; the main website needed publishing tools and infrastructure that content teams could rely on through change .
Workstreams
  1. Open Policy Finder Built the search and help pages for policy, journal, and transitional-agreement discovery, including documentation for API consumers and internal stakeholders; supported the data pipelines, indexing, and feedback loops that kept open access compliance data usable.
  2. Digital Experience Content Management System Worked on the main Jisc website platform: content management system delivery, publishing flows, AWS migration support, release readiness, and validation with product and content teams.
Signal
Policy and journal records became easier to keep aligned with the search experience , while website releases gained a clearer path from content change to production .
Senior
2026

Receipts

A trust-first beauty discovery platform designed around evidence, not empty ranking theatre.

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Tension
Beauty discovery often asks people to trust opaque recommendations; the product needed to show its working.
Owned
Product architecture, authentication, typed contracts, ranking logic, async work, and operational visibility.
Signal
Trust becomes part of the interface rather than a claim made after the fact.
Founder
2025

Milk & Henny

A personal archive for writing, travel, parties, and the photos I take on digital and film cameras.

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Tension
Meeting people, taking hundreds of photos, and sharing them afterwards should not turn into expensive storage, repeated DMs, or disposable transfer links.
Owned
R2-backed galleries, optimized previews, HD downloads, filtering and sorting, private transfers, words publishing, guest-list tooling, and admin workflows.
Signal
Turned a recurring personal problem into a durable place to publish, browse, filter, and download large photo sets cheaply.
Full stack