Summary
Mike Gazes is an electrical design engineer and generalist with 18+ years building electronics, optics, and instrumentation for startups in sensors, displays, and HVAC, now consulting as MGazes, LLC. He led productization at Chromation—designing optical cradles, circuitry, calibration, and customer-facing evaluation kits for chip-scale spectrometers spanning UV to NIR—and later integrated micro-LED displays and glass-substrate interposers at Lumiode. At Kelvin he redesigned a consumer HVAC controller (LoRa, eInk, switchmode power, super-cap backup, and thermopile calibration), gaining real-world RF/FCC experience and practical HVAC systems modeling. His background in MEP electrical engineering and a Cooper Union MSEE give him uncommon fluency across building code, power systems, and embedded design. He enjoys switching roles to complement teams, mentors others, and pursues off-hours interests in Rust, advanced geometry/algebra, and musical instruments—skills that reflect a pragmatic, curious approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art