Summary
Michael Galpin is a retired vehicle body design engineer with almost four decades of hands-on experience designing vans, trucks, trailers, ambulances, buses and coaches for UK and export markets. He progressed from apprentice body builder to senior design lead, spending many years at Optare where he led an 8–10 engineer team and drove interior styling, packaging of electric drive systems and customer-specific options using SolidWorks and Inventor. Comfortable across new product development and production-ready details, he blends practical workshop experience with CAD-led design leadership. Based in Shanklin, England, he brings rare depth in vehicle body packaging and EV drivetrain integration that often goes unspoken in CVs: a craftsman’s eye honed from apprenticeship through program leadership.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer