Mike Stowe
Senior Director, Developer Marketing at RingCentral
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMike Stowe is a Senior Director of Developer Marketing with 15+ years blending hands-on engineering, API design, and community-building to grow developer ecosystems at companies like RingCentral, MuleSoft, and Tigera. He has repeatedly built developer programs from the ground up—scaling communities from thousands to hundreds of thousands, relaunching developer platforms, and driving major traffic and adoption gains while winning multiple industry awards. A published author on REST APIs and a frequent speaker, Mike pairs technical credibility (PHP, APIs, front-end contributions to projects like Project Calico’s docs) with data-driven marketing practices including A/B testing, ML/AI automation, and growth-focused GTM. He’s led product-facing efforts across SMS, ISV partnerships, onboarding, and events, proving he can move both developer satisfaction and business metrics. Based in Minneapolis, he combines deep engineering roots with strategic marketing chops and a knack for turning developer advocacy into measurable market share.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Northwest Technical College
English, Sign languages
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
html10
kubernetes9
kubernetes-pods9
rest9
documentation8
design-patterns6
rpc6
api6
dataweave6
raml6
http-status-code6
json6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
projectcalico/calico
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Cloud native networking and network security
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on updating the front-end design of the Calico documentation site. Their work included integrating new fonts, adding the Tigera logo, and implementing JavaScript for mobile responsiveness. Furthermore, the user integrated third-party tools, adding Visual Website Optimizer and site feedback mechanisms, along with breadcrumbs and links for enhanced navigation. This work aimed to improve the site's usability and overall user experience.
multi-clustersecuritynetworkingsdnvirtual-network
mikestowe/phpScanner
Sep 2010 - Feb 2012
Contributions:7 commits in 1 year 4 months
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