Jessica Owen
SBackend Engineer at Booking.com · API platforms · OpenAPI, Python
- Booking.com
- Dublin, Ireland · GMT (UTC+0)
- 1+ years experience
- Durham University
- English
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Overview
Backend Engineer at Booking.com, focused on API platforms. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 2. Most at home with PostgreSQL and REST. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.
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Skills
PostgreSQLidempotencyRESTrate limitingOpenAPIPythonRedis
Experience
- Backend EngineerOct 2025 - PresentBooking.com · 1 yr · Full-time · Dublin, Ireland
- Brought on-call pages for public API down from 16 a week to 2.
- Moved 88% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Projects
Side project: a commute planner
2025Built with rate limiting and Python. 984 people used it last year.
Write-up: API platforms in practice
2024A long-form guide to API platforms for people starting out.
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Education
- Durham UniversityBA, Information Technology2021 - 2024
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