Summary
Mike Rotondo is a Staff Solutions Engineer with 17 years of experience designing humane interaction technologies—touch, pervasive computing, AR/VR—and leading teams to ship educational consumer products like Toontastic and Google Expeditions. Currently at Code for America he combines technical leadership and public-interest engineering to improve access to benefits such as GetCalFresh, applying product-focused software practices to civic services. His background spans startups, residency art projects, and platform-scale roles at Google, reflecting a rare mix of creative interaction design, systems engineering, and management. Trained in computer science and a Master’s in Music, Science & Technology from Stanford, he brings multidisciplinary thinking to problems at the intersection of technology and social policy, now reorienting toward equity, housing, energy, and climate impact.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Rochester
Master of Arts - MA, Music, Science & Technology, Master of Arts - MA, Music, Science & Technology at Stanford University