I build production AI systems at Zillow and technology that serves communities across East Africa. Agents with specs, traces, human gates, evals etc.
- 🤖 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 & STAT '14
- Production agentic AI at Zillow — tool-use, human-in-the-loop, spec-driven agents
- NiaFaker — open-source fake data generator localized for African regions
- 💻 owden.site
- 📫 consultancy [at] owden [dot] site