Summary
Michael Olson is a cloud-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable, secure, and cost-conscious systems, now serving as Cloud Developer III at Gentex. He specializes in cloud architecture, serverless and microservices design, and IoT solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a practical emphasis on observability and long-term operational maintainability. His background in vision-based automation and robotics gives him a strong systems and hardware-awareness that informs resilient edge-to-cloud designs. At Mutually Human he led cross-platform architectural decisions and mentored engineers, translating business needs into event-driven, production-ready systems. Based in Holland, Michigan, he combines hands-on implementation skills in Python, TypeScript, Go, and IaC with a knack for balancing technical trade-offs against operational costs and reliability.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mechanical Engineering, BS Mechanical Engineering at Hope College