Rowan Merewood
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRowan Merewood is a Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google in London with 15 years of experience building bridges between product, privacy/security teams, and the developer community. He leads Chrome developer outreach across security, privacy, payments, and identity, and has been a visible driver of the web’s Privacy Sandbox and the migration away from third‑party cookies since the SameSite changes. A pragmatic full‑stack contributor, Rowan’s open‑source work spans backend libraries (notably PHP support and Composer integration for google/recaptcha) and front‑end AMP examples that improve real developer UX. He blends technical leadership with hands‑on coding, mentoring teams through complex platform changes while still shipping tests, examples, and documentation that help developers adopt new standards.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MEng/Soft, MEng/Soft at The University of Sheffield
Stackoverflow
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safari
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
google-recaptcha10
php10
html10
amp-html10
cookie10
recaptcha10
safari9
unit-testing9
css9
google-chrome9
composer9
google-tag-manager6
flask6
samesite6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
google/recaptcha
Feb 2015 - Oct 2021
PHP client library for reCAPTCHA, a free service to protect your website from spam and abuse.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 171 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rowan's commits primarily focused on updating the PHP client library for reCAPTCHA. They added Composer support, unit tests, and a comprehensive example file, and also updated the example to use POST requests. The user also made changes to the core ReCaptcha class. Additionally, the commits demonstrate code formatting and clean-up efforts.
phprecaptchaspamabuse
ampproject/amp-by-example
Jul 2016 - Feb 2017
DEPRECATED: AMP by Example has been merged into amp.dev
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rowan primarily focused on developing and improving the front-end components of the AMP by Example project. Their contributions include creating and refining the hotel sample, improving image formatting and display within the carousel, and correcting typos to enhance the user experience. They also implemented a basic amp-access backend and improved explanatory text and header display to enhance the documentation of the project.
mergedgulp-plugindevagnosticamp
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