Mike Sharkey
Senior Embedded Designer at Fidus Systems
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Sharkey is a senior embedded designer with four decades in technology and 14 years focused on embedded systems, firmware, and real-time software. He specializes in RTOS, C/C++, POSIX, and has deep experience across ARM, MSP430, DSPs and industrial communication protocols like Modbus, SNMP and Ethernet/IP. Mike has led full life-cycle hardware/firmware/software development for industrial sensing, IIoT and robotic platforms, contributing patents in time-of-flight instrumentation. Comfortable on both bare-metal drivers and higher-level networked stacks, he blends low-level assembler skills with modern toolchains (IAR, GNU, Eclipse) and Unix development. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he continues to deliver embedded solutions at Fidus Systems while maintaining an archival engineering footprint at 8bitgeek and Bitbucket. His career combines long-term platform ownership with practical productization of niche industrial sensing technologies.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
George Brown Tech, Wilmington, Delaware
Github Skills (25)
json-parser10
python10
micropython10
arm10
ansi-c10
microcontroller9
dns9
embedded9
can-bus8
rtos8
simulation7
automotive7
minix6
p2p-node6
p2p5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
8bitgeek/libezbus
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:80 commits, 353 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 1 month
8bitgeek/komport
Feb 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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