Mikita Lipski

Founder-engineer. I build software for mines.

Co-founder & Technical Director atMinebright— six production products running at mine sites across West Africa, Central Asia, Canada, and Australia. Before that, technical lead on AMD's Linux display driver team, with patches in the mainline kernel.

Toronto ↔ everywhere the ore is.

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About

I studied Computer Engineering at Queen's, then spent[FILL: ~4] years at AMD working on the AMDGPU display driver in the Linux kernel — Display Stream Compression, DisplayPort MST, the code that lights up screens on every major Linux distribution. Upstream kernel work teaches you a particular discipline: your code is reviewed in public, runs on hardware you'll never see, and failure is a black screen on someone else's desk.

In [FILL: year] I co-founded Minebright with a geologist. We build the software mining operations actually run on: production reconciliation, drilling shift logs, FIFO crew logistics, site clinics, payroll — and lately, LLM pipelines that read NI 43-101 technical reports so analysts don't have to. I write the code, deploy it, and then go train the crews using it, whether that's a drilling contractor in Burkina Faso or an operator in Kazakhstan.

I like software that has to survive contact with the real world.

Minebright

Six products, one company. All in production.

• Mine AI— Mineral intelligence — LLM extraction of structured data from NI 43-101/JORC reports, AIFs, and filings.
• PitInfo— Mine-to-mill production tracking and reconciliation for operating mines.
• Drill Logs— Digital PLODs and shift analytics for drilling contractors.
• CrewCarry— FIFO workforce and travel management.
• Mine Care— Clinic management for remote mine sites.
• Payroll— Payroll engine built for West African labour law.

Used by operators, drilling contractors, labs, and royalty companies including Evolution Mining, West African Resources, Triple Flag, Capital Drilling, Robex, and MSA Labs.[FILL: confirm public client list]

Upstream

$ git log --author="mikita.lipski@amd.com" --oneline

• drm/amd/display: Enable DSC over eDP
  Display Stream Compression on embedded panels: more resolution through the same link, less power. (2021)
• drm/amd/display: Add MST atomic state support
  DisplayPort multi-stream topologies handled through the atomic modesetting path: bandwidth validation and payload management for daisy-chained monitors. (2019–2020)
• drm/amd/display: Fix DSC configuration computation
  The unglamorous majority of driver work: making the numbers right. (2020)
• drm/amd/display: Do not limit color depth to 8bpc
  Early deep-color enablement. (2018)

[FILL: N] patches in the mainline Linux kernel ·full list on git.kernel.org · Arctic Code Vault contributor (2020).

Projects & awards

• Sampson — QHacks 2017, winner of two categories ("Ready to Launch," Queen's MEI; "Hack Healthcare"). Cloud-connected IoT pill dispenser: physicians schedule doses remotely, a sealed dispenser executes them. Django backend, Intel Edison, Arduino.Devpost.
• Squash trainer — ESP8266 + MPU6050 embedded in a racket to analyze shots. C.GitHub.
• CV fitness tracker — body-contour tracking in Python.GitHub.
• Gantry-robot capstone — gesture control of an industrial gantry robot via projection interface. C++.GitHub.

Contact

The fastest way to reach me isemail on LinkedIn profileor LinkedIn.