# Rowan Merewood (@rowan.fyi)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/rowan.fyi
Headline: \#DevRel with #Chrome at #Google

## About

We should improve the web somewhat.

## Career

- **Staff Developer Relations Engineer at Google** (Oct 2020 - Present)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer outreach across manager and IC roles in Chrome and (the late) Privacy Sandbox. Covering security, privacy, payments, and identity.
- **Senior Developer Advocate at Google** (Dec 2015 - Nov 2020)
  Full-time · On-site
  Android, Google Now, Firebase
- **Developer Advocate at Google** (Oct 2013 - Dec 2015)
  Full-time · On-site
  Google+, Android, Android Wear, Android TV
- **Technical Team Lead at Inviqa - a Havas Company** (May 2012 - Oct 2013)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer: PHP/ Zend Framework, JQuery, Memcached, MySQL, AWS
  Manager: Team lead
- **Technical Team Lead at Ibuildings - a Dawn Technology Company** (Jun 2010 - May 2012)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer: PHP/ Zend Framework, JQuery, Memcached, MySQL, AWS
- **Lead Developer at Plusnet** (Oct 2007 - Jan 2010)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer: PHP / PHPUnit, MySQL, CruiseControl, Selenium
  Manager: on-site, remote, team lead
- **Technical Lead at Plusnet** (Jun 2007 - Oct 2007)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer: PHP / PHPUnit, MySQL, CruiseControl, Selenium
  Manager: on-site, remote
- **PHP Developer at Plusnet** (May 2006 - Jun 2007)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer: PHP, MySQL
- **Web developer at Sheffield Occupation Health Advisory Service** (Sep 2003 - Apr 2006)
  Full-time · On-site
  Developer: Python / Zope / Plone, PHP, MySQL
  IT: Linux, LDAP server, SAMBA, Windows

## Publications

- Modern noise — rowan.fyi (Apr 2025) https://rowan.fyi/posts/modern-noise/

## Skills

### Technical
- Android Development
- Firebase
- HTML
- JavaScript
- PHP
- Web Development

## Education

- **University of Sheffield** — MEng/Soft, Software Engineering (Sep 1999 - Sep 2003)