Michael Rowehl
DevOps Engineer at SmithRx
Visalia, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Rowehl is a veteran DevOps engineer and serial founder with 15 years of experience taking early-stage products from prototype to production and exit. He combines deep hands-on expertise in deployment pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and HIPAA-compliant operations with a knack for shipping first-version products quickly to validate market assumptions. As co-founder of Glystn and previous CTO roles, he built and scaled engineering teams, implemented LLM-driven features, and prototyped vector search and RAG systems powering advertiser tools. His background includes operationalizing Spinnaker and large-scale claims integrations, and he has repeatedly delivered zero-downtime client launches by designing realistic test harnesses tied to live networks. Based in Visalia, CA and self-styled a "17th level Hacker," he brings entrepreneurial grit, pragmatic engineering, and a track record of turning complex systems into reliable, production-ready services.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
None, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, None, Computer Science, Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
Stackoverflow
2,240reputation
359kreached
65answers
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camera
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Github Skills (65)
camera9
minecraft9
p2p9
blockchain9
ethereum9
spinnaker9
android9
go9
apollo-client8
geth8
bakery8
auth-service8
debian7
continuous-delivery7
vagrant7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mikerowehl/os-experiments
Sep 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
mikerowehl/dotfiles
Sep 2020 - Jul 2026
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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