Rose has been a professional technologist since the 1990s and began writing about technology in 1994, when she created her first guide to the Internet. She began writing about technology for publication in 2011. Rose has written articles on technology innovation, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cybersecurity, and IT management for Ziff-Davis, HP, IBM, Intel, Sage, Vonage, The Mighty Guides, and others.

Rose was Managing Editor of The Social Media Monthly, the world's first print magazine dedicated to the social media revolution, from 2011 to 2014. During her time at that publication, she also wrote insider stories on a wide range of leading technology trends that were not well understood at the time, including augmented reality, crowdfunding, sports and social media, the 2012 Obama campaign, and music streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora.

As the former IT Director of a major international human rights organization, Rose believes strongly that technology should work for people, not the other way around. That’s why technology only shines when people feel empowered by it, not intimidated. She continues to maintain a connection with the nonprofit sector by teaching a course on nonprofit technology project planning and recruiting for the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network.

Rose graduated from Oberlin College in 1998 with a major in English literature and a minor in computer science. She has long considered herself a hybrid technologist-writer.