Mike Barnett
Designer
United States
Summary
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RockstarMike Barnett is a seasoned designer and software engineer whose career began coding at 13 and spans pioneering work in voicemail, multimedia gaming, DVD/Blu-ray consumer electronics, and voice-recognition platforms. He has led engineering teams from early-stage startups through IPOs and directed R&D commercialization efforts at Interval Research for Paul Allen, consistently shipping embedded systems and consumer products. As creator and author of PySimpleGUI, he now focuses on making GUI development approachable for others, reflecting a passion for lowering the barrier to software creation. His background includes architecting MIPS-based media codecs, building fault-tolerant distributed voice platforms, and accruing patents that helped redefine casino gaming technology. Comfortable both as a hands-on coder and a strategic engineering leader, he combines deep low-level expertise with product-minded delivery. Now based back on the East Coast, he continues to blend practical engineering with community-focused open-source work.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (156)
epub10
python10
pymupdf10
tesseract10
text-processing10
qt-gui10
qt10
xps10
mupdf10
py2exe10
py2app10
package10
tkinter10
gui-framework10
gui-programming10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
JorjMcKie/wxsimpleGUI
Dec 2017 - Feb 2021
A standard GUI collection written in wxPython
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 comments, 3 issues in 3 years 3 months
wxpython
MikeTheWatchGuy/PySimpleGUI
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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