Mike Thompson
Retired Part-time Consultant at Self-employed
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike 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.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Magna Cum Laude , BS Computer Engineering Magna Cum Laude at University of the Pacific
Github Skills (11)
ros5
openembedded5
robotics5
microchip3
linux-kernel3
soc3
kernel2
linux2
ethernet1
aravis1
moto1
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
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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