Mike Bell
CTO at Mercuna Developments
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Bell is a CTO and technical leader with 14 years in game AI and real-time systems and a prior decade building high-performance telecom software. He architects core 3D navigation for Mercuna used in Unreal Engine and Unity, and previously led development of navigation, behavior trees and tactical AI on titles like Star Citizen and Aquanox. His background in lock-free, high-throughput call control systems at Metaswitch gives him a rare blend of low-level concurrency expertise and game-focused AI design. Based in Edinburgh and Cambridge-educated in Mathematics, he also contributes to embedded projects such as the Pimoroni Badger2040, showing hands-on firmware and IoT skills alongside his leadership.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics at University of Cambridge
English
Github Skills (12)
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
system-integration10
integrations10
micropython10
hardware-interface10
power-management9
spi9
gpio9
i2c8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
pimoroni/pimoroni-pico
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Libraries and examples to support Pimoroni Pico add-ons in C++ and MicroPython.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 54 commits, 26 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the Badger2040 project, focusing on its embedded systems and hardware integration aspects. Their commits included improvements to the Badger2040 library, such as fixes to button handling, power management on wake-up, and enhancements to the display-related functionalities. They also added new features to the MicroPython modules, enabling halting the device from MicroPython and improvements to example applications, specifically the "badge" and "image" apps. Furthermore, the user worked on fixing display conversions and adding a clock example.
cppmicropythonraspberry-pi-pico
TinyTapeout/ttsky25a-tinyQVb
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
TinyQV - Crowdsourced Risc-V SoC, second instance
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 29 pushes in 10 months
risc-v
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