Mike Devlin is a U.S. entrepreneur who co-founded

Rational Software Corporation Rational Machines is an enterprise founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. It changed its ...

, a software development company based in Lexington, Massachusetts. Devlin graduated from the United States Air Force Academy 1977 after studying electrical engineering and computer science. He completed an M.S. in computer science at

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the following year. As CEO of Rational, Devlin oversaw the acquisition of several companies, including Objectory AB (1995), and ''Catapulse'' (2001), a

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which was funded by Rational, in conjunction with Benchmark Capital. In 2003, Rational Software was acquired by IBM for 2.1 billion dollars (U.S), a move that saw Devlin become general manager with IBM. He retired from the company two years later.

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