Mik Cox
Senior Vice President Technology Innovation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMik Cox is a senior technology leader with 12 years of experience turning experimental prototypes into production-ready IoT and cloud solutions, currently leading Technology Innovation at Plume Design. He progressed from hands-on roles at JPL—where he led the Smart Campus, built NASA’s first Alexa skill and the widely adopted Open Source Rover—to CTO of Ubiety, bringing a product-focused engineering mindset to sensor fleets and home awareness platforms. Known for rapid prototyping and “duct-taping” messy systems into reliable services, he combines data science, serverless/cloud architectures, and embedded systems expertise. Mik excels at translating research-grade ideas into practical workplace tools and commercial products, and he has a track record of winning government innovation awards and getting hardware-software projects into the hands of global audiences.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics - Computer Science Minor, Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics - Computer Science Minor at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (67)
rover10
robotics10
open-source10
hardware10
robot10
angularjs9
openframeworks8
sniffer8
angularjs-material8
python8
pcap8
tcpdump8
auditing8
lts8
security7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
vssystemluba/lasp-vivo-skillview
Sep 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:138 commits in 11 months
mikcox/rpi-room-control
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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