About

Michael Kowalchik (mikepk) is an engineer, entrepreneur, and creative hacker. He’s currently working on starting a new company, TenZeroLab.

Before starting TenZeroLab, Michael was co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Grazr Corporation, a web technology company based on web feeds and data analysis. For three and a half years Michael led the engineering team and acted as primary software developer for Grazr’s various products. These products included Grazr.com, VibeMetrix, and AlertRank. In June of 2009 Michael decided to leave Grazr corporation and venture out again on his own. Grazr has $1.5m in funding and continues to operate with a focus on the AlertRank product.

Prior to co-founding Grazr corp, Michael worked for seven years in in the advanced research and development labs of Hopkinton, MA based EMC Corporation and before their acquisition by EMC, Data General Corporation. He worked with distributed computing and storage architectures, parallel processing, hardware, software and systems design and analysis. While at EMC, Michael was awarded patents on large scale, high performance, storage architectures.

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