# Michael Wilson

> Senior Software Engineer @ Allen Institute for AI

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelwilson

Check out my website at mewil.io or send me an email at mewil@umich.edu!

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Jan 2022 – Present

### SDE @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington
Led the design, implementation, and evaluation of a new secrets detector launched at re:Invent 2021 to identify hardcoded secrets in customer source code and secure them with AWS Secrets Manager.
Designed and implemented a usage metering system to support CodeGuru Reviewer's new pricing model
As a software engineer, concurrently managed 6 direct reports and delivered 10x more recommendations on Python source code for the Python General Availability launch compared to re:Invent 2020.
Coauthored a paper on type inference of AWS SDK clients in Python source code submitted to ECOOP22.
Extended static analysis tooling and service infrastructure and implemented code quality detectors to support Python source code for launch at re:Invent 2020.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Michigan eXploration Laboratory
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI
Managed software development and delivery of cube satellites including the Tandem Beacon Experiment (TBEx), launched on SpaceX's STP-2 Falcon Heavy Mission in June, 2019.
Built an end-to-end distributed communications pipeline that gathers satellite telemetry in orbit, schedules downlinks of the data to ground stations on Earth, aggregates the data for analysis, securely displays the telemetry on the web, and can be controlled via Slack integrations.
Developed and evaluated mission critical payload and communications flight software for TBEx and used flight and prototype units for hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Received a grant and honorable mention at the SmallSat Conference Student Competition for my paper Applying Modern Software System Design to Small Satellite Development and Operations.

### SDE Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington
Designed and implemented a terabyte scale data warehouse to enable static code analysis research.

### Software Engineer @ Trove
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
Created a frontend analytic framework to analyze user behavior and iterate on captivating user experiences for a professional networking web app.
Added new REST API endpoints to the back-end application to provide novel access to user data.
Implemented a new mobile and email notification system to improve delivery latency.

### Software Lead @ MHacks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, MI
Managed the mobile app and website team for the University of Michigan's biannual hackathon, MHacks.

### Founder @ Athenian Labs, LLC
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Bloomfield, Michigan
Marketed and sold my photography using social media, amassing over 9K followers on Instagram.
Created captivating aerial drone videos for clients to market real estate and fulfill individual client requests.
Designed and currently implementing novel project management software.

### Web Developer, Producer, and Pilot @ Drone Brothers
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Bloomfield, Michigan
Developed the company website to showcase available services and increase brand awareness.
Piloted drones to capture aerial video and photographs for commercial and residential real estate clients.
Edited and produced promotional aerial videos, photographs, panoramas, and 3D maps.

### Sales Associate @ The Robot Garage
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Birmingham, Michigan
Taught robotics and programming to children at a local robotics education center.
Supervised student groups at summer programming camp.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Cognitive Science
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Cranbrook School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mewil

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Last updated: 2026-03-22