Michael Cohen
Principal Software Engineer at New Sun Road, P.B.C.
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Cohen is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston with a decade of full-stack experience building cloud-native platforms for energy and grid management. He leads development of New Sun Road’s Stellar Microgrid OS, combining scalable server architectures with intuitive dashboards to manage distributed power systems. His background blends academic rigor—a PhD and MS from UC Berkeley studying distributed solar impacts—with product-focused roles translating complex energy models into usable web APIs and interfaces. Michael has repeatedly bridged modeling, simulation, and production software (from GridLAB-D simulations and cluster automation to commercial SaaS), and he pairs technical leadership with hands-on coding and mentoring. Notably, he has taken research software into public-facing tools and even an educational game, demonstrating a knack for turning technical simulation work into accessible products.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Energy and Resources, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Energy and Resources at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Psychology at Brandeis University
Github Skills (52)
monitoring10
graphite10
opentsdb10
promql10
opentelemetry10
thanos10
victoriametrics10
database10
driver9
observability9
timeseries-database9
kubernetes9
grafana9
range-slider9
prometheus9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
energyPATHWAYS/EnergyPATHWAYS
Jan 2016 - Jul 2017
EnergyPATHWAYS model is a professional, open-source energy and carbon planning tool for use in evaluating long-term, economy-wide greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios.
Contributions:134 commits, 79 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 6 months
mactyr/glm2dot
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 day
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