MikeĀ Thompson
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Thompson is a versatile robotic systems engineer and retired part-time consultant with 13 years of hands-on experience designing embedded systems, firmware, and system architectures for mobile and industrial robots. He created Raspbian, the official Raspberry Pi OS used by millions, and has laid foundational firmware for many well-known robotics companies through his consultancy work. As Principal Engineer at Dusty Robotics and earlier roles, he built robust systems spanning embedded Linux, bare-metal ARM MCUs, real-time sensor management, motion control, and industrial networks like EtherCAT and CAN. A repeat founder and early SaaS CTO (Atomz) with a successful acquisition, he combines entrepreneurial instincts with deep low-level engineering skill. He particularly thrives in the earliest phases of product development where architectural choices have outsized impact. Based in San Carlos, CA, he continues to consult part-time, bringing rare cross-domain experience from kernel and RTOS work to production robot fleets.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
stm9
ros5
openembedded4
linux-kernel3
linux2
ethernet2
aravis1
moto1
qt1
kernel1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mpthompson/linux
Aug 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:85 commits in 3 months
mpthompson/stm32_ptpd
May 2021 - Sep 2021
Example PTPD slave and master projects for NUCLEO-F429ZI development boards.
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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