Michael Fischer

Michael is a software engineer, product owner, and project manager. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering+Physics, an MASc in Mechanical Engineering, and an MSc in Computer Science. He spent 10 years in real-time instrument software design and high-performance computing for astronomical instrumentation at NASA’s JPL and Caltech, followed by the European Southern Observatory, and National Research Council of Canada. He then shifted focus to working in energy systems and climate — helping found an IoT high-efficiency LED lighting and building automation company, and leveraged grid computing for hydrological modeling at the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium before joining MarineLabs shortly after its inception.  He built much of the software stack himself in the early years and has since grown a team of 7 talented developers that now do most of that work.