Michael Brooks
Tech Lead Manager, Android XR at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Brooks is a tech lead and embedded ML engineer with 12 years building on-device intelligence and hardware-software integrations across Google products like Coral, Clips, Glass, and now Android XR. He blends low-level expertise in ARM, Linux, and FreeRTOS with practical ML deployment experience from Google Research and Coral, shipping secure IoT features such as ECC608 hardware crypto support and software fallbacks for AIY Projects. Comfortable moving between prototype silicon bring-up and product-grade systems, Michael has a track record at TI and Google of accelerating time-to-production and adapting platforms to new hardware constraints. Based in San Francisco, he pairs hands-on engineering with people leadership, currently directing Android XR efforts, and is known for pragmatic refactors that keep long-lived embedded systems maintainable. An unexpected detail: he’s equally fluent turning up first silicon as he is in adding cloud-integrated security to hobbyist AI kits.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyRMHS
Github Skills (13)
iot10
embedded10
hardware-security-module10
sys10
python10
iot-devkit10
gcp10
ai9
raspberry-pi9
mqtt8
mqttnet8
apidoc7
api7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/aiyprojects-raspbian
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
API libraries, samples, and system images for AIY Projects (Voice Kit and Vision Kit)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on integrating hardware and software for the AIY projects, specifically working with Google's Cloud IoT Core and the ECC608 crypto chip. Contributions included adding support for the hardware security module and implementing a software fallback for devices lacking the crypto chip. They also refactored and updated existing code to adapt to hardware changes and integrate new functionalities, with several modifications to the underlying library.
makerapiraspberry-pipythonvoice-recognition
google-coral/project-bodypix
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
BodyPix model demo application for Google Coral
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 4 commits in 1 year 1 month
model-democoralgoogle-coralbodypix
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