Michael Cousins

Led multiple projects to improve Viam’s “fragments” feature—a complex system for sharing device configuration—across our Go and Svelte stack, delivering valuable revision control and dependency management features to customers.

Architected Viam’s machine configuration builder UI, leading a team of nine engineers to drastically improve the app’s ease-of-use, load times, and reliability.

Transformed Viam’s web app into a resilient, SSG’d app using SvelteKit, digging the app out of tech-debt bankruptcy, instituting pragmatic testing standards, and unblocking parallel feature development across all front-end teams.

Overhauled CI workflows and switched to Playwright for E2E tests, eliminating flaky CI failures and keeping CD to production fast while contributions increased.

Mentored engineers of varying experience on unit testing, UI component testing, end-to-end testing, continuous integration, and architectural best-practices.

Designed, built, and shipped an HTTP API for Opentrons’ on-device control server, fixing long-standing operator-safety bugs, unblocking complex multi-system integrations, and keeping users’ existing workflows entirely intact.

Architected, developed, and maintained the Opentrons App, the Electron, React, and Redux desktop app that controls the OT-2 and Flex robots.

Led the Core Platform Experience team as we resolved the OT-2’s most pressing usability issues, cutting customer support requests by 30%.

Built an OAuth 2.0 login system with a React front-end and Scala back-end, allowing users to connect their Smart Vents to Ecobee and Amazon Alexa.

Designed and implemented hardware and software for assembly-line QC fixtures.

Created and managed Node.js-based production systems, tools, and tests.

Designed electronics and firmware for wearables and other connected products.