Mike Rankin
Electronic Design Technician at SureShot Solutions
Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Rankin is an experienced Electronic Design Technician with over two decades of hands-on expertise designing high-density PCBs and prototypes across medical, defense, underwater sensing, and industrial dispensing products. He specializes in taking designs from schematic through PCB layout, manufacturing files, and test-fixture programming, and has deep practical knowledge of Altium Designer, blind/buried vias, flex circuits, BGAs/FPGA routing, and bed-of-nails clamshell fixtures for high-volume assembly. His background includes ruggedized and space-constrained designs for surveillance and military applications, close collaboration with mechanical teams using SolidWorks and Fusion360, and in-field problem solving with board manufacturers to keep production flowing. Based in Nova Scotia, he also pursues custom ESP32 IoT projects, blending firmware work with hardware and enclosure modeling—an unusual mix that keeps his prototype skills current and rapidly iterated.
12 years of coding experience
Solidworks 3D Modeling, Solidworks 3D Modeling at Javelin TechnologiesElectronic Systems Design for EMC ComplianceElectronics Technician, Electronics Technician at Nova Scotia Community College
Github Skills (44)
lcd10
arduino-library10
usb9
esp328
e-ink8
arduino8
gpio8
esp82667
esp-idf7
driver6
nimble6
multiplexing6
arduino-esp326
raspberry-pi-gpio6
spi6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mike-rankin/ESP32_CoinCell
Feb 2019 - May 2019
An ESP32 Project with sensors and tiny display powered by a coin cell
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 3 comments in 3 months
esp32
mike-rankin/ESP32_CoinCell_Color_TFT
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Based off of the CoinCell Board but with more sensors and a 80x160 ST7735 color tft lcd
Contributions:55 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
lcd
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