Michael Lyle
Program Lead, Engineering And Maker Education Director, Institutional Research & Innovation
Morgan Hill, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Lyle is a seasoned technology leader and educator with 11+ years of experience spanning networks, distributed systems, and security, and a career that includes founding multiple startups and engineering teams whose technology was acquired by major firms. He is a Linux kernel subsystem maintainer (bcache), long-time open-source maintainer (including dRonin), and brings deep full-stack expertise from semiconductor processes to web services. As Program Lead and Maker Education Director he translates graduate-level engineering into hands-on student projects—most notably guiding a student-built 2U CubeSat selected by NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative. Michael combines product-minded architecture and IP strategy with practical skills in control systems, PCB design, and cybersecurity, frequently solving problems by blending hardware, software, and mechanical hacking. Based in Morgan Hill, CA, he still consults on high-assurance systems while mentoring the next generation of engineers.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (167)
controller10
dongle10
waffle10
autopilot10
mavlink10
pid10
facebook-messenger10
flarum10
plane10
facebook10
openwrt10
robotics9
laravel9
opentx9
messenger9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mlyle/armtrainer
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:46 commits, 97 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
d-ronin/dronin-hw
Jul 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 4 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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