Mike Heavers
Staff Innovation Technologist
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMike Heavers is a Staff Innovation Technologist in Portland with 13+ years crafting research-driven prototypes that bridge physical and digital experiences, currently shaping responsible AI, accessibility, and green software at Mozilla. He combines hands-on full-stack skills (React, Node, WebGL, D3) with machine learning and embedded electronics to prototype voice interfaces, audio AI, computer vision, and decentralized privacy tools. As founder of Digital Futures and a long-time creative technologist, he has delivered prototypes and installations for brands and institutions from Nike to HBO, turning experimental concepts into testable product hypotheses. He teaches practical ML and hardware–software integration, which informs his pragmatic yet humane approach to design. Notable Mozilla work includes AI coding assistants, podcast tooling that extracts and queries audio content, and tooling to assess device repairability and energy footprints—demonstrating a rare blend of creative play and sustainability-minded engineering.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BA Finance, BA Finance at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of BusinessInteractive Telecommunications Program, Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian
Stackoverflow
29,800reputation
3.9mreached
68answers
502questions
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
ui-components10
magenta10
gradio-interface10
cyclegan10
thunderbird10
vector-graphics10
node-canvas10
mobile-application10
firefox10
html10
data-science10
modal-dialog10
nodejs10
html5-canvas10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
heaversm/ml5-hello
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
heaversm/serial-reader
Nov 2015 - Mar 2020
Use nodejs to read serial data from the USB Port of your computer and send it to a front end web application using websockets
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
frontendnodejsusbwebsocket
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