Mike Estee
Principle Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMike Estee is a Silicon Valley–bred engineering leader with 28+ years of hands-on experience and 16 years in senior management roles, now serving as Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft in Portland. He blends full-stack software, hardware, and product know-how—from firmware and CNC motion control to front-end developer tools and LLM-driven data science UX—having led teams on Project Bonsai and Synapse. A maker at heart, he co‑founded Other Machine Co. (designer of Othermill/Otherplan) and contributes to industrial motion-control open source like TinyG, where he improved homing logic and diagnostics. Known for translating physical systems into polished software experiences, he moves comfortably between CS, ME and EE domains and enjoys reverse-engineering to learn what’s behind the machine.
16 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
self educated.
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
c1710
firmware10
debugging10
controls10
embedded10
debug10
gcode10
c1110
sys10
git6
boost6
bazel6
python6
numpy6
ubuntu6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
synthetos/TinyG
Nov 2013 - Feb 2014
Affordable Industrial Grade Motion Control
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily focused on debugging and improving the homing cycle within the TinyG firmware. They addressed multiple bugs related to axis homing, including issues with G28.2 and G28.3, and the state management of homing cycles. Additional commits included enhancements, such as a direction change fix in the stepper module and the addition of configuration options, indicating their involvement in core motion control functionalities and parameter settings. The user also worked on implementing diagnostic tools and output formats to better understand and troubleshoot the system.
motion-controlaffordableindustrialmotiongrade
bantamtools/OpenMesh-2.0
Oct 2013 - Aug 2015
ACGCommon
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
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