Ethan Look-Potts developed foundational hardware control features and streamlined frontend architecture across the viamrobotics/rdk, viamrobotics/api, and viamrobotics/viam-typescript-sdk repositories. He introduced Button and Switch component interfaces with gRPC services, enabling robust hardware interaction and comprehensive test infrastructure using Go, TypeScript, and Protocol Buffers. Ethan also implemented a Robot Version Information API and improved SDK versioning, supporting safer deprecation and clearer client-server contracts. On the frontend, he removed obsolete web components and simplified CI/CD pipelines, reducing maintenance and build complexity. His work demonstrated depth in API design, component development, and codebase cleanup, resulting in more maintainable and efficient systems.