Jonathan Owens

about

Senior software engineer. Eight years in B2B software, mostly at the systems and backend layer.

At Reprise Software, building licensing infrastructure in C and Laravel + Inertia + React. Independently building Veralex — a Rust-based software licensing platform with a multi-tenant Laravel admin portal. Based in the Pacific Northwest. Mostly remote.

stack

• languages rust, php, c, c++, javascript, typescript
• frameworks laravel, livewire, inertia, react, qt
• infra aws, terraform, ansible, docker
• workstation endeavouros + cachyos kernel (bore, x3d), macos — both remote into homelab via zed

projects

• Veralex
  Software licensing platform built in Rust. Seat-based checkout, ECDSA-signed license files, hardware host binding, PIV/CAC smartcard support. Administered via a multi-tenant Laravel 13 + Livewire 4 portal (Flux UI, Tailwind CSS 4, Postgres, PHP 8.4). Deployed via Forgejo CI/CD.
• jondy.dev
  This site. Served from bare metal via nginx in Docker. No cloud. No CDN. No Vercel.

homelab

Running on bare metal in my home office. Everything containerized.

infrastructure

• Forgejo — self-hosted Git with CI/CD runners
• Prometheus + Grafana + cAdvisor — full observability stack
• Pi-hole + Unbound — recursive DNS resolver, no upstream dependency
• Nginx — reverse proxy and static hosting

productivity

• Nextcloud + Collabora — self-hosted cloud storage and office suite
• Actual Budget — personal finance
• Miniflux — RSS

contact

email  [email protected]