# Tucker Hawkinson

> Tucker Hawkinson is a North Carolina-based software engineer, technical writer, founding engineer at Owner.com and, since 2026, founder and CEO of an unnamed startup. His path runs from mechanical engineering and a SpaceX production internship through federal engineering and application development to product architecture for Owner's restaurant platform. His own writing is unusually concrete about the work: simplifying a 25-page dashboard, imposing safer boundaries on shared components and designing information-heavy software around the way restaurant operators actually think.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at a stealth startup; Founding Engineer (Senior to Staff) at Owner.com
- **Organizations:** Stealth Startup, Owner.com, Spathe Systems, SpaceX, United States Federal Government
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Computer Science studies, Vanderbilt University
- **Known for:** Progressed from senior to staff-level founding engineer at Owner.com., Helped restructure Owner's large Vue and Vuex dashboard around domain-based feature modules and API-first base components., Documented product and information-design changes for a dashboard with 25 top-level pages used to manage restaurant websites, menus, orders, reviews, devices, subscriptions and reporting.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2020** — Progressed from intern to engineer with the United States Federal Government.
- **2017-01 to 2017-05** — Worked as a production intern at SpaceX.
- **2020-2023** — Progressed from application developer to senior application developer at Spathe Systems.
- **2020** — Published the five-part introductory Medium sequence beginning with 'So You Want to Learn How to Program' and continuing through four 'HTML For Humans' lessons.
- **2021-07** — Dates the beginning of his work on the Owner dashboard project to July 2021 in his portfolio.
- **2023-present** — Serves as a founding engineer at Owner.com, progressing from senior to staff level.
- **2026-present** — Lists himself as founder and CEO of a stealth startup while continuing to list his Owner.com role.

## Achievements

- Progressed from senior to staff-level founding engineer at Owner.com.
- Helped restructure Owner's large Vue and Vuex dashboard around domain-based feature modules and API-first base components.
- Documented product and information-design changes for a dashboard with 25 top-level pages used to manage restaurant websites, menus, orders, reviews, devices, subscriptions and reporting.
- Completed a production internship at SpaceX in 2017.
- Published a beginner-focused programming and HTML tutorial sequence on Medium in 2020.
- Maintains a public GitHub account created in 2015 with 67 public repositories as of the 2026 profile snapshot.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Owner.com announced a $240 million Series D at a $2.3 billion valuation while Hawkinson continued to list himself as a founding engineer there.
- **2026** — Updated his personal site to list a new founder and CEO role at a stealth startup, alongside his ongoing Owner.com position.
- **2026-06** — His GitHub profile was updated and continued to identify him with Owner.com.

## Links

- Website: https://hawkinson.dev/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuckers-tech/
- GitHub: https://github.com/tuckers-tech

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Last updated: 2026-09-27