Mick Phillips
Senior Staff Applications Engineer
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolMick Phillips is a Senior Staff Applications Engineer with 12 years of experience building and delivering complex scientific instruments that marry optics, electronics, mechanics, controls and software. Based in Berkeley, he has a strong physical-sciences foundation and a track record leading multidisciplinary projects—from super-resolution and cryo-SR systems at major national facilities to commercial cell-biology platforms at Bruker. He excels at turning experimental needs into robust, maintainable instrument control software and documentation, and has authored open-source microscope control tools adopted by multiple labs. Known for hands-on CAD, electronics and low-level microcontroller coding as well as higher-level Python and cross-platform software, he bridges lab science and production engineering. Less obvious: he also has experience building institutional processes—training, safety documentation and reproducible prototyping workflows—to scale complex instrumentation work.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of Nottingham
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Github Skills (60)
intellij10
python10
windows10
linux10
graphical-user-interface10
intellij-idea10
cocoa10
wxwidgets10
hardware10
x1110
gtk10
macos10
cpp10
gui-framework10
dotnet9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
microscope-cockpit/cockpit
Nov 2013 - Dec 2019
Cockpit is a microscope graphical user interface. It is a flexible and easy to extend platform aimed at life scientists using bespoke microscopes.
Contributions:1425 commits, 73 PRs, 103 pushes in 6 years 1 month
graphical-user-interface
mickp/glStuff
Jan 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:37 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 3 months
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