About

I'm Mike Buss, a software engineer in Northeast Ohio. For fifteen-plus years I've built medical device software at every layer — the firmware inside the device and the apps that put its data to work.

I spent eight years at Cleveland Clinic building tools for multiple sclerosis patients, cognitive assessments for athletes, and AR therapeutics for people with Parkinson's. After that, four years on devices and software for deep brain stimulation therapy.

Today I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Motion Med Labs, helping build a motion capture system described as the heart of a new neurological institute.

The work I like best lives in the seams: where firmware meets radio, where sensor data meets a clinician's screen, where a measurement becomes a decision. That's where the hard bugs live, and it's most of what I write about here.

Nights and weekends, I build things for my family — a keepsake box with an e-paper display and a fingerprint reader for my son, an RFID-locked box for my wife, and whatever the 3D printer and CNC talk me into next.