Mike Rowehl
About Mike Rowehl
I'm a programmer living in San Mateo, California in the United States - an area generally known as Silicon Valley. I tend to work mobile related things, handheld devices being of great interest ever since I ran across my first Palm Pilot device. I work with a lot of open source projects and tend to work on service scalability for consumer web properties and applications.
- My main web presence is my mobility focused weblog, This is Mobility.
- I'm currently working as a backend/scalability engineer at Chomp Inc, and blogging on our Chomp Technology Blog as part of that.
- Russ and I started the Mobile Monday Silicon Valley meetings, and I still run the monthly meetings.
- I'm also one of the organizers of the Mobile 2.0 conference.
- Most recently I was working at a mobile browser company called Skyfire working on overall service scalability.
- I was co-founder of a startup called Mowser, a service for making the web available to mobile phones. It was sold to dotMobi in May 2008 and has since become their Instant Mobilizer offering.
- Previously worked as Director of Technology at AdMob, a bidded marketplace for mobile advertising.
- Also previously worked at Ning, a free platform for hosting social applications.
- I'm a huge open source fan.
- My current distro of choice is Ubuntu.
- Spent a long time doing Linux embedded systems development. It's made me a big believer in the Android operating system for mobile devices.
- My Scheme environment of choice is DrScheme.
- Self taught, I never finished college. Got bored and wandered off, never wandered back. No one seems to care.
- Grew up on Long Island, which is kinda like this big strip mall that extends out from New York City. I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now.
- Animation and anime fan. Ghost in the Shell is right up at the top of my list, as is Serial Experiments Lain.
- I normally have a side project or two I fool around with. Currently I'm working on a motorcycle road racing community site and fooling around with making some open source tools for location services.