Owen Ritchie

About Me

Hey, I'm Owen — a data engineer, scientist & designer currently based in Ottawa, ON. I love working on creative and meaningful projects, and spend lots of my free time outside hiking, skiing and playing various sports. I also love the arts, where I'm interested in design philosophy, playing music, and photography (photojournalism, wildlife).

Always happy to talk, so feel free to reach out!

Where I've done my workExperience

University of Ottawa

BSc Computer Science

Sep 2022 — Present

Honours Computer Science on the Dean's List. Building the EECS department's first honours project portal as my CSI 4900 honours project.

Coursework

Modelling & Simulation
Design & Analysis of Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Databases
User Interfaces
and more!

Kinaxis

Data & Analytics Engineer Intern

Sep 2025 — Aug 2026

Worked across data engineering and cloud analytics, building the dbt, GCP and Power BI infrastructure behind Marketing, Sales, Product, Finance, IT and Cloud Services. Designed and modelled reporting for at least five C-level executives, including the CEO, and redesigned our Data & Analytics team's reporting standards.

500M+ concurrent parts, scenarios & users tracked across 400+ Maestro customers
~90M rows migrated from Snowflake to BigQuery with 0 downtime
$18k saved a year by cutting 100k+ CU-hours of Fabric compute

Global Affairs Canada

Data Analytics Intern

Jan 2025 — Jul 2025

Worked on the data behind Canada's international development reporting, bringing together sources like the World Bank, OECD, UN and WEF. Built a scenario tool for Directors to model aid funding against Canada's commitments, validated statistics for the G7 Accountability Report at the 2025 Kananaskis summit, and delivered regional reports on the Sahel and CARICOM.

99.8% cut in API response times pulling World Bank, OECD, UN & WEF data, through multithreading
50+ statistics in Canada's G7 Accountability Report (2025)
10+ Directors modelling aid funding scenarios with my ODA tool

Poisson Consulting

Data Science Intern

May 2023 — Sep 2023

Worked with senior computational biologists on salmon research along the Lower Columbia River, keeping published R analyses reproducible as packages changed. Mapped spawning sites from drone surveys to estimate how dam operations affect egg survival, and taught R to students as a volunteer TA.