Michael Ruppe
Newcastle-Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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SeniorMichael Ruppe is an electronics-focused maker and product engineer with a decade of experience designing hardware, leading product teams, and creating educational content that’s reached thousands worldwide. He led design and manufacturing for the PiicoDev sensor ecosystem and built rapid-prototyping workflows at Core Electronics, later expanding into business unit leadership overseeing support, creative, and manufacturing functions. Now a research assistant at Monash University, he focuses on cost-sensitive, scalable hardware labs that bridge education and practical deployment. Equally comfortable soldering prototypes, scripting factory automation, or scripting tutorial videos, Michael blends hands-on engineering with pedagogy to help beginners and professionals move from idea to working product. Outside work he composes music, practices yoga and climbs, bringing a practical, adventurous curiosity to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
15reputation
545reached
0answers
2questions
Github Skills (21)
gif-animation9
pix9
hardware9
giphy9
camera8
html6
micropython6
python6
javascript6
kicad6
gif5
automation3
raspberry3
python-app2
bash2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michaelruppe/art
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:211 commits, 6 PRs, 149 pushes in 5 years
artcode-artp5-js
michaelruppe/FSAE
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Projects for Formula SAE Electric Vehicle competition (Australia 2019/2020)
Contributions:177 commits, 8 PRs, 136 pushes in 9 months
fsaehardware-projectsvehicleelectrichardware
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