Michael Cousins

Reduced launch latency of Abridge's web-app for nurses by 80% through smart use of SSR in Next.js, client-side JS optimization, and a CDN for static assets.

Led end-to-end delivery of multiple ambiguous backend and full-stack initiatives, shipping on time with no post-launch incidents and strong observability.

Spearheaded a company-wide migration to pnpm for improved security posture, updating shared CI/CD workflows to gracefully swap several large repositories.

Launched a complete rebuild of Viam's fleet management UIs as tech lead of a nine-person team, dramatically improving accessibility, reliability, and load times.

Drove the technical direction of Viam's front-end infrastructure and tooling, using SvelteKit to add SSG and CDN caching to our app, while creating shared code quality configurations for all six front-end teams.

Overhauled Viam's front-end testing with comprehensive yet pragmatic standards, instituting E2E tests with Playwright and driving accessibility-first component testing with Testing Library, cutting UI bug reports by at least 50%.

Developed the Opentrons App, implementing a scalable Electron, React, Redux, and TanStack Query architecture to support controlling the OT-2 and Flex robots.

Designed, built, and shipped an HTTP API for the on-device Python server, enabling multi-system integrations while keeping users’ existing workflows intact.

Resolved the OT-2’s most pressing connectivity issues between our React app and embedded Linux devices, cutting customer support requests by 30%-50%.

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.

Maintained distributed systems, deployed to AWS, for ingesting sensor data over persistent, load-balanced TCP sockets from thousands of devices in users’ homes.