Mike Staub
Principal Software Engineer at Bright Machines
Mike Staub
Principal Software Engineer at Bright Machines
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Principal Software Engineer
2020 - 2023
● As one of the few Principal Engineers at Bright Machines, I work hard to lead my team through rapid software iteration and release cycles all while prioritizing learning from the customer. ● I participate in architecture reviews with the other Principal Engineers and Architects to make sure our solutions are robust, flexible, and secure. ● As the tech lead for the frontend team, I am responsible for the performance, security, and user experience of all the web products we ship including our flagship product Brightware.
Senior Software Engineer
2019 - 2020
● As one of the first software engineers to join, I was responsible for helping grow the team from 3 to 100 within 12 months. ● I worked closely with the Product, Design, Platform, Field Operations, and Simulation teams to lead the launch of our flagship product Brightware. ● I helped establish best practices and made sure the software engineering culture remained world-class, all while moving very quickly to ship product. ● As a tech lead, I mentored interns, new hires, and my peers to help them grow in their careers. I make it a priority to learn from and improve those around me as best I can.
Bright Machines brings together flexible factory robots with intelligent software, production data and machine learning.
Raised $437,000,000.00 from NVIDIA, BlackRock, Microsoft, Jabil, Shinhan Investment and Eclipse Ventures.
Software Engineer
2015 - 2018
● Worked on a cutting edge WebGL/WebVR content authoring application that allows artists to create rich interactive experiences using a visual programming environment. ● Created entire CI/CD pipeline from scratch using AWS, Docker, and Mesosphere's DC/OS. Owned all DevOps related tasks for the team. ● Worked with fullstack javascript to implement new web app features, various backend APIs, a react-native app, and an electron app. ● Constantly challenged team to adhere to best practices. (testing, code reviews, knowledge sharing, semver, etc)
HSMWorks technology with its industry leading software and cloud services for manufacturing.
Lead UI Engineer
2015 - 2015
● Lead a redesign of the entire front end. ● Hired 2 engineers and shared all my knowledge before leaving.
GrubMarket is an AI-powered prominent B2B eCommerce business operating in the American food supply chain industry.
Raised $499,100,000.00 from Liberty Street Funds, The K Fund, ROC VENTURE GROUP, Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Celtic House Asia Partners, Apeira Capital, Squarepoint Capital, Tiger Global Management, Disruptive Ventures and Walleye Capital.
Technical Assistant
2012 - 2014
● Maintained and supported a 10,000 CPU distributed computing system requiring 100% up time for image rendering. ● Architected a web app for artists to monitor their jobs on the render farm using python/django and backbone.js. ● Helped secure multi-million dollar contracts by collaborating with artists, producers, and IT to meet critical client deadlines. ● Led a 5 person team through 3 major releases, also interviewed and trained new team members.
Lucasfilm produces original content, postproduction effects, and audio for external clients, licensed products, and the gaming industry.
Production Engineering Intern
2012 - 2012
● Responsible for a studio effort to make the cg lighting process more efficient by designing new tools using python and Qt.
ATI CFX Driver Intern
2011 - 2011
● Wrote C++ for the Crossfire GPU driver (software that allows multiple GPUs to be linked together to increase performance) ● Worked closely with hardware engineering teams to create developer tools to help 20+ engineers work more efficiently
Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
ATI D3D Driver Intern
2010 - 2010
● Wrote production quality C++ code that shipped with the main Windows DirectX User Mode GPU driver. ● Implemented an event logging framework using the Windows Event Log API that 30+ engineers used to debug the driver.
Advanced Micro Devices is a semiconductor company that designs and develops graphics units, processors, and media solutions.
Research Assistant
2009 - 2010
● Performed QA for their software and also designed/built a website for their open sourced WEAVE visualization platform.
Education
BS
2008 - 2012