Mike Wake
Sysops at Arkeus
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Wake is a technically driven engineering leader with nine years of recent experience (and two decades overall discipline) building and delivering complex software-hardware systems across mining automation, aviation crew systems, and autonomous vehicles. He excels at selecting and integrating the right sensors, middleware and ML components to turn research prototypes into production-grade, supportable products—from real-time 3D visualisation and multi-vehicle command-and-control to GNSS/IMU fusion, LIDAR perception and path planning. At Rio Tinto he helped embed visualization and automation tools across multiple mine sites, and more recently led the Kelpie UGV programme delivering vehicle-agnostic autonomy for off-road weed recognition and intervention. A pragmatic problem solver and bridge-builder, he pairs deep technical troubleshooting with stakeholder-facing product delivery and process discipline (requirements, CI, configuration control). Based in Greater Melbourne, he brings a rare blend of mechatronics training and hands-on systems engineering that accelerates research into operational impact.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Github Skills (27)
robotics10
router10
proxy-protocol10
feature-matching10
autonomous-robots10
lidar10
ros10
feature-extraction9
navigation29
http9
pubsub9
server9
commercial9
patchwork9
client-library8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ewak/navigation2
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
ROS 2 Navigation Framework and System
Contributions:16 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
ewak/uWebSockets
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
scalablehttp-librarycppwebsocketsnode-js
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