Owen Brown
Technical Product Manager
- owen.brown@gmail.com
- owentbrown.com
- +1 (310) 651 0632
- Redwood City, California

Owen Brown is a technical product manager and full-stack application developer with experience leading teams. He cofounded and served as CTO at Starbutter AI, an award-winning SkyDeck startup. He advises startups on customer development, devops, and machine learning.
Work Experience
Software Engineer 2
ZeroCater uses software to plan perfect meals for companies.
- Designed and built a food routing and labeling system, enabling several caterers to serve a single meal.
- Built the backend to an analytics dashboard and sales tool, used to win enterprise deals.
- Created API endpoints for CloudCafe, an exciting catering product that allows employees to select boxed meals from restaurants.
- Planned ML system to predict the number of orders at a meal, which will allow same-day ordering. Development is scheduled to start in February.
Technical Product Manager
Unison co-invests in people’s homes and manages a $1B+ real estate fund.
- Designed and launched a multi-touch attribution system on top of Redshift, allowing easy calculation of different CPAs to meet the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders.
- Created features of a machine-learning model to predict direct mail response rate and investment amount.
- Product managed Unison’s Partner API. Partners use it to refer customers to Unison in exchange for a commission.
- Simplified Unison's Partner API, saving six weeks of engineering time and delighting our best partner.
CTO and Cofounder
Starbutter AI uses conversational agents to advise consumers on financial products such as car insurance and home mortgage.
- Architected a low-latency, high-elasticity AWS serverless voice application, minimizing 99th percentile latency, which increased organic traffic and revenue on the Actions on Google platform.
- Built a low-cost data pipeline capable of scaling to big data using AWS Firehose, S3, and Athena.
- Built the award-winning Credit Card Helper and dozens of other voice agents who reached 95,000 users a month
- Iterated quickly, testing ads from Google Area 120 and SkyDeck ad-tech companies, resulting in profitability on the AdLingo advertising platform. Created an analytics dashboard using Pandas to track KPIs
Senior Business Operations Analyst
Ad-tech. At the time, System1 monetized remnant email marketing inventory, a highly profitable niche.
- Managed thousands of websites configurations through which flowed over $100M of annual revenue
- Product managed a statistical testing tool written in R. Used this tool to analyze website A-B tests.
- Used Python to manage thousands of websites. Used mulit-armed-bandit design principals to test website features.
- Designed, launched, and analyzed the result of tests, then managed the rollout of optimizations across the every website.
Grown Marketing Analyst
Convertro pioneered multi-touch attribution. Brands used our big-data SAAS product to advertise more efficiently.
- Used multi-touch attribution, SQL, Vertica, and Python to manage Dish Network’s Google Adwords, SEO, and affiliate programs, resulting in client renewal and successful launch of Sling TV.