Kevin Coughlin.
Programmer · builder · Redmond, WA

Making useful things for curious people.

I’m Kevin Coughlin — a software engineer and open-source contributor who likes small tools, clear interfaces, and work that holds up in the real world.

Selected work

01 / open source

sir-android

Open-source internet radio for Android — phone, Wear OS, Android Auto, and Android TV. No accounts, no tracking.

Kotlin · Android↗

ShoutKit

An MIT-licensed radio SDK, and Holmdel, the app built on it for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.

Swift · Apple↗

lazydeck

A lazydocker-style terminal UI for managing a fleet of Steam Deck and Steam Machine devkits.

Go · TUI↗

mc-dad-server

A Minecraft server in 60 seconds, for busy dads who would rather play than administer.

Go · Minecraft↗

bauhaus

Daily style-transferred art from CC0 museum collections — behind this site's background, plus Android and Apple TV clients.

Cloudflare · art↗

godot-xdg-portals

Desktop portals for Godot games on Linux: GameMode, idle inhibition, power saving, and notifications.

Godot · Linux · v0.2.0↗

Experience

02 / the day job
  1. 2024 – now

    Principal Software Engineer

    Microsoft · SharePoint & Microsoft 365

    Bringing Microsoft 365 Copilot search into SharePoint, and hardening the platform’s security across commercial, government, and sovereign clouds.

  2. 2022 – 2024

    Principal Software Engineer

    Microsoft · Viva & SharePoint

    Tech lead for Viva Home, taking it from timeouts to fast loads, and for moving SharePoint and OneDrive’s web telemetry onto a new SDK at Microsoft 365 scale.

  3. 2019 – 2022

    Senior Software Engineer

    Microsoft · SharePoint Framework

    Rebuilt the SharePoint Framework release pipeline, shipped the most releases in its history — including the Adaptive Card Extensions behind Viva Connections — and cut JavaScript from SharePoint’s busiest pages.

  4. 2015 – 2019

    Software Engineer

    Microsoft · Office UI Fabric & Aria

    Open-sourced the OneDrive File Picker under MIT (shown at Ignite 2018), led the Fabric 7 migration, and built the Aria telemetry portal.

  5. 2014 – 2015

    Product Engineer

    Tumblr · New York

    Dashboard, search, explore, and onboarding on the web and Android.

  6. 2013 – 2014

    JavaScript Developer

    Bank of America · New Jersey

    A cross-platform JavaScript SDK and internal mobile apps.

B.S. in Computer Science & Economics, The College of New Jersey. Full history on LinkedIn →

Cascadia
Collections

03 / the company
Small by design.
Open by default.

I founded Cascadia Collections to make useful things easier to discover, understand, and keep. We move between software and commerce with a Pacific Northwest point of view.

Visit Cascadia Collections →
Built in the openTransparent work creates better tools.
Chosen with intentionFewer, better, more interesting things.
Rooted in placeIndependent spirit, Pacific Northwest perspective.
04 / keep in touch

Say hello.

Open-source collaboration, thoughtful software, and good questions are always welcome.