Ronald Sutherland
Free-lance Electrical Engineer at Self-employed
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRonald Sutherland is a pragmatic electrical engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing microcontroller-driven circuit boards, LED drivers, and industrial flow measurement systems. He combines product-grade automotive LED power design and EMI-hardened IMS layouts from RIGID with years of freelance prototyping—authoring several open hardware/software projects (e.g., Gravimetric, Irrigate7, RPUlux) that show end-to-end firmware and PCB craftsmanship. Comfortable across schematics, PCB layout, firmware for PIC/AVR, and Linux-based tooling, he also automates test systems using Python and instrument SCPI from earlier production-test roles. Now self-employed in Tempe, he’s building an Inventree-backed parts workflow to professionalize his hardware inventory and reproducible BOMs. Colleagues would point to his blend of field-tested industrial controls knowledge and obsessive, practical tinkering as what makes him reliably productive on both one-off prototypes and production-ready designs.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Github Skills (36)
samd218
chips8
atmega8
microchip7
c-extension7
attiny7
cpp6
arduino6
vscode6
clover6
typescript6
vscode-extension6
bootloader6
arduino-uno6
microsoft6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
epccs/LoopSensor
Nov 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
epccs/RPUlux
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:68 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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