Michael Courage
Principal Engineer at Amazon
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Courage is a Principal Engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale systems across top-tier tech companies, currently driving engineering efforts at Amazon from Kirkland, Washington. His career spans long tenures at Microsoft and Google, product-focused development at Nest, and senior roles at Zynga, giving him deep expertise in both platform engineering and consumer-facing software. Known for blending hands-on coding with architectural leadership, he has moved between startup-paced teams and massive distributed systems environments. A Harvard AB in Computer Science, he brings strong fundamentals tempered by practical delivery across cloud, services, and embedded domains. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex technical trade-offs into pragmatic roadmaps and mentor engineers through critical delivery phases. Despite a primarily corporate resume, his pattern of multi-year contributions suggests a knack for deeply understanding legacy systems and driving durable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
AB, Computer Science, AB, Computer Science at Harvard University
Github Skills (15)
kernel10
git-clone10
svn10
aws-iot10
sourceforge10
aws9
sdk9
linux9
windows-driver9
freertos9
markdown9
rtos8
embedded8
iot7
multicore1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
courage/courage.github.io
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
courage/test-repo
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
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