Michael Cooper
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Cooper is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable web platforms, currently focused on payments infrastructure at Stripe after leading engineering work at Observable and Mozilla. He blends back-end expertise—evidenced by meaningful contributions to Mozilla’s Kitsune support platform, improving usability, logging, and data integrity—with a track record of scaling developer-facing products. Based in Portland, he pairs production-grade engineering with community-minded open source work and a pragmatic emphasis on UX for support systems. His background in systems administration and a CS degree from Oregon State University give him a strong operational footing that complements his product and code-level impact.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Oregon State University
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mozilla/kitsune
Jul 2012 - Apr 2016
Platform for Mozilla Support
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:763 commits, 495 PRs, 338 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily focused on improving the usability and functionality of the Mozilla Support (Kitsune) platform. The commits included enhancements to article feedback surveys, such as updating the UI to use radio buttons and making textual feedback mandatory for certain choices. The user also addressed a SQL syntax error and implemented code refactoring to improve the platform's logging configuration. Furthermore, the user contributed to deleting all tags that point at a document.
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mozilla/normandy-compose
Apr 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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