Three decades of experience in programming.

Michael Godin currently leads IntuAware, which offers intuitive hardware and software systems and solutions that enable robotics and web applications for education, environmental exploration, and fun. He also leads OpenAUV, a new initiative to create a very low cost Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), with an open source hardware and software design. See OpenAUV.org

He holds engineering degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (B.S., Mechanical) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., Nuclear). He has been building and programming systems since he was a child, and has managed to maintain the innovative and intuitive attitude of a hobbyist towards complex systems, despite his dedication to rigor and well documented designs.

He has worked in the government, industry, and non-profit realms on varied topics including nuclear waste handling robots, environmental risk management, hyper-spectral in-situ ocean sensing, ocean remote-sensing, marine metadata management, and underwater robots.

Recent projects have included the development collaboration systems for geographically distributed groups of researchers, tools for spatio-temporal data exploration, and operating software for underwater vehicles designed for month-long autonomous missions.

Work Terms

Prefer two-way email communication at least every other day during a project. Prefer to provide early mock-ups of work for feedback, and expect feedback on those mock-ups. Payment can be at end of project for most small projects, or monthly for larger projects.