Michelle Burroughs
Mechanical Systems Engineer at Blue Origin
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Burroughs is a mechanical systems engineer with a decade of experience designing high-volume consumer electronics and flight-grade aerospace hardware, currently working on Blue Origin’s New Glenn program. She blends CAD-driven mechanical design, prototyping, and DFM with UX-centered product thinking—having shipped Meta Quest 3 and led CubeSat payload mechanics at Lockheed Martin. Comfortable leading cross-functional, international teams, she translates user research and industrial design input into manufacturable solutions and has hands-on vendor troubleshooting experience in China. Michelle’s background spans injection molding, precision mechanisms, electro-mechanical vibration isolation, and automation for spacecraft manufacturing, reflecting a rare mix of consumer-product polish and aerospace rigor. An MIT and University of Utah alum, she pairs technical depth in tools like NX, CREO, and ANSYS with a proven track record of influencing program decisions and winning funding through strong mechanical concepts.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe University of Utah
English, French
Github Skills (4)
compose5
docker-compose4
docker3
microservices2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mlburroughs/Evento
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Event application using microservices deployed through docker compose
Contributions:120 PRs, 149 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
dockercomposedocker-composedeployedmicroservices
mlburroughs/CYOA
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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