William A. Rowe, Jr.

Bill is a Senior Software Engineer for the Covalent Products Division of SpringSource. In this position, Rowe is responsible for developing and delivering the company’s certified builds of Apache, Tomcat and related modules.

Bill’s contributions to Apache include numerous enhancements to the Win32 port of the HTTP Server project, including CGI, security, service control, file system support, and APR design targeted at the WinNT native API. He provides Win32 hints to Apache related newsgroups, and has been a speaker at previous ApacheCon events.

As a member of the Board of Directors for the Apache Software Foundation and an active committer on the Apache httpd and APR projects, his work on Apache continues in areas such as integration of Apache 2.0 with the Win32 security model and add-in modules.

Bill started his career developing an array of customized and revenue document imaging systems. Prior to joining the SpringSource Covalent Division, he provided consulting services in data transformation, application integration and Web interface services.