Foundational Product Designer

Micah Tinklepaugh, M.S. Mechanical Engineering

Product designer and mechanical engineer focused on foundational systems and high-trust product surfaces from finance to mapping water on the Moon.

Truist Financial

First Lunar Bank — Payment Onboarding

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First Lunar Bank

International Payments

Pay anywhere.
Even the moon.

Payments lets you send money across borders — and beyond. Send your first payment to Kennedy Space Center’s groundskeeping crew in seconds.

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Electric Power Research Institute

Nuclear Power Digital Assistant

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E DC Cook Unit 1
Thermal Fatigue Detected
Mounting rail · micro-fracture · EVA required
Thermal Fatigue Instance
ASSET: PILEP-SLR-0023
LOC: RIM-N · ±84.9°S
SURFACE: −168°C
DELTA-T: 294°C/cycle
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Designed a structured field inspection system replacing fragmented paper workflows with a compliant, traceable digital capture pipeline at the Electric Power Research Institute.

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Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Risk Assessment & Geospatial Intelligence

risk assessment platform
ai geospatial pipeline
uncertainty visualization

Work performed at a federally funded research and development center. No sensitive artifacts are shown.

Contributed to three workstreams before falling in love with designing for the moon.

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Concept Work

Spatial Computing for Live Sports

Spatial computing concept for NFL team

A concept exploring spatial computing in live sports, imagining the stadium as the interface. Built on a 2014 redesign of ESPN Fantasy Football, it examines future AR and wearable interaction models.

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