Mike Barton
Associate Sr. Fellow, R&D Systems
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Barton is an experienced R&D systems leader with over two decades of hands-on engineering and 13+ years in R&D management, currently guiding Interventional Cardiology system development at Boston Scientific. He blends systems and software architecture expertise with human factors and project leadership for Class II/III electronic medical devices, having led cross-disciplinary teams across software, electrical, and mechanical domains. Mike’s background spans safety-critical product development in medical, aerospace, and industrial sectors, and he has practical experience integrating commercial components into regulated devices and navigating FDA Class-III software requirements. An active contributor to open-source embedded tooling, he has contributed core runtime fixes and tests to the widely used MicroPython project, reflecting ongoing low-level technical engagement alongside strategic leadership.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MSSE Software Engineering, MSSE Software Engineering at University of MinnesotaBSEE Electrical Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering at Valparaiso University
Github Skills (12)
c1710
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
debug10
exception-handling10
c1110
sys10
python10
py10
micropython10
testing10
documentation6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
micropython/micropython
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 46 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the core functionality and internal workings of the MicroPython project. They focused on refining dictionary implementations, specifically preventing modifications to fixed dictionaries and addressing potential crashes related to exception handling within the runtime. The user also modified the testing suite, removing dependencies on specific error values and adding tests for subclassed exception instances. Furthermore, they improved documentation and adjusted the build system to accurately reflect project versions.
pythonpython-implementationmicrocontrollerconstrainedembedded
digidotcom/xbeewificloudkit
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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