Rowan Meara
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRowan Meara is a server architect and seasoned backend engineer with over a decade of experience designing scalable systems for high‑traffic games and analytics platforms. After earning a CS degree from Cornell, he progressed through multiple senior engineering roles at Niantic—contributing to major Pokémon Go features—before moving into architecture roles at Niantic and Scopely. He combines practical systems knowledge (C, Python, Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL/MongoDB) with hands‑on experience building log aggregation and anomaly detection pipelines and real‑time infrastructure optimizations that cut costs and improved reliability. Rowan also mentors through teaching past OS courses and brings a taste for performative, efficient code evident in projects like EsportsTracker.net and large‑scale simulation tooling. Based in Seattle, he balances product-facing feature work with deep server engineering and cost‑aware operational design.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (20)
32-bit10
atmel10
firmware10
microcontroller10
3d-printer10
3d-printing10
avr10
esp3210
arduino10
gstreamer8
api6
rest6
middleware6
redis5
javascript5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
RowanMeara/RowanMeara.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jun 2026
Contributions:86 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 11 months
RowanMeara/EsportsTracker
Jun 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:295 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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