Summary
Michael Hughes is a Senior System Quality Engineer with 11 years of experience designing, testing, and sustaining embedded hardware and firmware for medical and healthcare products. He has deep expertise in automated verification, manufacturing test, and firmware development across wearable sensors, personal emergency response systems, and wireless hospital equipment tracking. At Persimmon Technologies and prior roles at MC10 and Philips Lifeline he has bridged product, quality, and manufacturing teams to ship reliable, regulator-ready devices. A Worcester Polytechnic Institute graduate, he blends electrical engineering and computer science foundations with hands-on embedded development. Outside of work he’s a rated pilot and licensed amateur radio operator, reflecting practical RF and systems troubleshooting skills that inform his hardware work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineer, Computer Science, BS, Electrical Engineer, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute