Hey, I'm Owden 👋

I build production AI systems at Zillow and technology that serves communities across East Africa. Agents with specs, traceability, and human gates — not just prompts. Reliable trumps clever.

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• 🤖 ML Engineer at Zillow — agentic AI platforms, orchestration, evaluation pipelines
• 🚀 Co-founded 3 tech companies — 1M+ users impacted across Tanzania and beyond
• 🌾 Built a climate-smart agriculture platform — 11,500+ farmers trained, 10,000+ plots mapped
• 🏛️ Built Tanzania's national business registration system — launched at the statehouse by President Kikwete
• 🎤 Speaker across 4 continents — Emory University, AIBO Beijing, CDAC Delhi
• 🎓 Emory MSBA '24 · University of Dar es Salaam CS '14

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• Production agentic AI at Zillow — tool-use, human-in-the-loop, spec-driven agents
• NiaFaker — open-source fake data generator localized for African regions

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