Rob Mckinnon
Multi-skilled Engineer at Cranswick Continental Foods
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Mckinnon is a multi-skilled electrical and mechanical engineer with 21 years of hands-on experience across manufacturing, automation and field service roles. He has led engineering teams and apprentice programs while managing maintenance and fault-finding for high-speed bespoke heat-sealing machinery and complex automation lines for major retailers. International deployment experience—from Los Angeles to Australia, Ghana, Russia and the UAE—underscores his ability to install, commission and train diverse teams on Siemens and Mitsubishi PLC systems. Equally comfortable rebuilding plant from dormant equipment to profitable operation, he combines practical shop-floor expertise with management discipline from prior Engineering Manager and team-lead roles. An analytical problem-solver, he has also contributed performance-focused code improvements in open-source projects, applying resource-conscious thinking to both hardware and software. Based in Warrington, Rob is a versatile engineer who thrives on bringing multi-disciplinary solutions into production and keeping them reliably running.
21 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Rhodesian Certificate of Education, Rhodesian Certificate of Education at Milton Boys High School, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
English, afrikaans (similar to flemmish)
Github Skills (13)
memory-management10
audio10
caching10
performance-optimization10
ruby10
synthesizer9
synthesis9
artnet8
midi-instrument8
ed255198
artwork8
live-coding8
music8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Code. Music. Live.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer / Performance EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rob primarily focused on optimizing the Sonic Pi codebase, specifically targeting memory allocation and performance improvements. Their contributions include caching mechanisms for note and scale objects, reducing redundant object creation in core functions, and using array keys for memory efficiency. They implemented these changes by modifying core Ruby files related to music theory, MIDI handling, and server operations, resulting in reduced memory usage.
reactsynthesizerartsynthesislivecoding
ministryofjustice/specialist-publisher
Jun 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:11 PRs, 303 pushes, 75 branches in 9 months
govpublishingmanualsgovukspecialist
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