# Milo Kusold

> Sr. Software Engineer at Carbon Robotics

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

I'm passionate about doing work that aligns with my values.

I use they/them pronouns and hold dual citizenship with Slovenia 🇸🇮.

In my free time, I enjoy foraging, mycology, gardening, logo design, baking, teaching financial education, and advocating for environmental sustainability

## Work Experience
### Sr. Software Engineer, Frontend @ Carbon Robotics
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, WA
Working in the ag-tech space to help make a farm implement that shoots weeds with lasers as an alternate to herbicides.

Ops Center:
// wireframing, Figma, React, TS, golang, SQL
- Designed, architected, and built the customer facing side of our "Plant Profiles" feature which allows farmers to classify plants by clicking on pictures. (Before they had an extremely limited ability to influence the model's behavior). Supported multi-client editing (as well as offline robots), full history, and the ability to preview the AI model's decisions before deploying to the field.

AutoTractor:
// design, Figma, React, TS, WebRTC
- Designed and implemented an interface for remote driving tractors. This includes customizable views of live video cameras and keyboard controls for driving.

ML Internal Tooling:
// user interviews, wireframing, Figma, React, TS, python
- Designed and fully implemented a UI for our custom labeling tool used every day by our remote labeling team (saw a 48.85% labeling speed improvement due to UX improvements alone) 
- Designed and built label and ML pipeline analysis tools to help our ML folks experiment to improve our models

### Senior Software Engineer @ Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
AI Nonprofit space to helping to make AI research accessible to the public.

- Worked on a variety of research paper demo apps.
- Expanded and maintained internal tools that allowed researchers to easily create and host their own demos when they felt inclined
- Created internal infrastructure to keep track of publications and datasets
- Supported internal tools that researchers used to perform experiments

### Software Engineer @ optimize.health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States
Health care industry supporting remote patient monitoring solutions.

- Supported the core product.
- Extras: on-call rotations, debugging hardware device logs, and setting up JIRA instances for the team.

### Sr. Software Developer @ Fresh Consulting
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Working on robotics, IoT, creating intuitive software, and expanding the edges of the definition of full-stack development.

Projects:

1. Autonomous Robotic Air Hockey Table
I acted as the overall UI/UX designer and Interactive Software Developer.
I designed the overall game experience as well as all digital screens, sounds, and lighting aspects of the game. I developed interactive software across 3 separate languages and frameworks including Angular ( Typescript), ROS (Python), and Arduino (~cpp) for the screens, robotic API, and lights/goals hardware integrations respectively. I packaged and deployed the system utilizing Docker and custom kiosk configurations. Extra miscellaneous tasks included soldering & multimeter debugging.

2. A Corporate React Design Library
I acted as the team lead and collaborated with the client's development team as well as their designers to help unify the company's design system. We leveraged libraries such as React Material UI, Recharts.js, among others, and added PWA support.

3. ROS Over the Air Updates
I designed and implemented early prototypes for a custom OTA update strategy for robots using the ROS framework.

### Full Stack Developer @ Fresh Consulting
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area
Working on a diverse array of awesome projects ranging from Angular application development, Raspberry Pi computer vision, and an autonomous vehicle interfacing React Electron app.

Projects:

1. United Rentals Autonomous Vehicles
I acted as the Dev Lead, Technical Architect, intermittent Project Manager, and Scrum Master on a team of 6 developers to create a cross-platform desktop application that interfaced with autonomous construction vehicles. The application communicated with and monitored vehicles (primarily Bobcats), mapped sites, and planned vehicle routes. Primary technologies that were used include Electron, Node.js, React, Redux, GraphQL, and Openlayers maps. This project required learning mapping and basic GIS skills to be able to communicate effectively with surveyors and translate measurements onto performant maps within the application.

2. United Rentals Robotic Indoor Positioning System
I collaborated on a custom indoor positioning system that relies on computer vision utilizing python, openCV, and raspberry pi -- ultimately achieving positional accuracy within 2cm.

3. Epiq TMX
I worked on a team to create an Angular web app that helps organize and annotate legal documents. I developed extended online PDF functionality including note-taking, highlighting, overlays, and the ability to link phrases between multiple PDFs.

### Associate Consultant Software Developer @ HMB
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Columbus, Ohio Area
My role involved full-stack development as a consultant for a variety of clients. Within my teams, I was known for my knowledge of AngularJS, front end engineering skills, web design, and understanding of UX.

Projects:

1. The Ohio Treasury
I worked on a team to create an AngularJS/C# web application to support government-bank relations. I participated in DB design, writing SQL scripts, and implementing Entity Framework Code-First database creation. I also helped to create the C# Web API as well the AngularJS front-end that utilized Bootstrap and Kendo UI. I personally led the team in setting Angular best practice patterns and designed custom UI elements. I also set up the project's SASS framework, gulp auto-watches, and file structure.

2. McGraw Hill Education
I participated in a team to add new improvement features to an internal .NET / Angular application by writing SQL Stored Procedures and implementing a higher performance Angular grid system using Ag-Grid.

3. ABB
I worked on a team creating an AngularJS/Cordova mobile app. In addition to general UI component contributions, I translated physics calculations from Excel to Javascript and converted the app's styling framework from CSS to SASS.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Rosetta
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
Marketing Consultancy

- Front-end development for both client work and the company-sponsored non-profit project.
- Developed components in AEM (Adobe Experience Manager), which is a large-scale CMS
- Internationalization

### Automation Engineering Intern @ OCLC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Dublin, OH
Library Software company

- Developed new testing tools
- Created and maintained automated tests to support the main product.

### Intern @ The Horsburgh & Scott Co.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
Manufacturing company that made gears

- Digitized boxes of old photos
- Created Solidworks drawings for parts of a current conditions monitoring system and drew additional circuit diagrams.
- Created and maintained a company intranet site, and updated public website content


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering
The Ohio State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mkusold
- Website: http://www.mkusold.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22