Mike Parks
Circuitsmith And Bitwright (Product Development Engineer) at Green Shoe Studio
Cumberland, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Parks is a multidisciplinary product development engineer with 11 years of experience blending traditional craftsmanship, embedded systems, and data-driven engineering to build resilient, beautiful, and secure physical products. At Green Shoe Garage and Studio he unites CAD/CAM, woodworking, metalworking, PCB design, microcontrollers, FPGAs, and firmware (C/C++, Python, Rust) to deliver everything from art installations to IoT devices while also designing manufacturing workflows. A former Navy civil engineer and NAVAIR systems architect, he translates complex operational and infrastructure problems into practical solutions and clear visual insights. His cybersecurity research targets the often-overlooked intersection of OT and IoT, turning hardware teardowns and protocol analysis into actionable risk remediation. Outside client work he teaches community makers, produces technical content, and champions consequence-aware AI engineering—advocating for ethics and long-term thinking to be baked into design, not added later.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Glen Burnie High SchoolJohns Hopkins UniversityLogistics and Intermodal Transportation major, Logistics and Intermodal Transportation major at United States Merchant Marine AcademyUMBC
Github Skills (16)
usb7
fpga6
hardware6
knife4
embedded2
atmel2
zephyr2
sphinx2
firmware2
platformio2
esp322
mqtt1
avr1
iot1
arduino1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GreenShoeGarage/HackerTV
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 34 pushes in 19 days
GreenShoeGarage/HackerRadio
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 32 commits, 68 pushes in 1 month
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