Hello,
I’m Maikol.

Across my 2026 internship and continuing contract work at Medtronic, I led a cross-site mechanical design workstream that delivered 61 designs across 12 manufacturing automation systems.

I worked with the design team to close throughput gaps, with a projected 20–30% machine gain. I also diagnosed deburr tool-material limits and redesigned the tooling, raising trial yield from 20% to 90%.

I reverse-engineered legacy column-buckling rigs and designed protoboards that restored the systems to correct operation. The work combined mechanical troubleshooting with electronics design to bring existing research equipment back into use.

I developed C scripts to validate parametric over-the-air files, enabling QA to test firmware releases on Wi-Fi air-conditioning units.

I also led a co-op Sumo Bot team. Integrating a LiPo battery and voltage regulator let us overdrive the motors by 40% without failures.

I built and iterated 3D-printed prototypes from vendor concepts for an automation project with $1.3M in projected savings. I also redesigned an oven fixture in SolidWorks, expanding the automation scope and cutting labor by up to 83%.

I authored the acceptance test plan adopted for factory acceptance of a robotic automation system targeting $3.5M in savings.

I led a co-op team designing a universal oven spill-guard, helping kickstart a new R&D product line.

I also built two Python tools—a BOM cost analyzer and a sensor-to-Excel converter—to reduce manual review for R&D leads.

As Co-Founder and Head of Product and Technology, I direct development of shop-management software for job tracking, bills of materials, costing, and quoting.

I created a scraping tool that compiled 140K potential business leads for prospecting. I also oversee test-driven development infrastructure, automated validation, and review gates for product changes.

I create and explain PCB, electronics, firmware, and manufacturing builds, taking projects from the engineering work to the videos that document it.

That work has reached 50K+ combined views and impressions. ZeroMakeLab is also the home for my PomoBox and TutorBot builds.

With the SHPE team, I helped build and race an F1TENTH autonomous car. The car used LiDAR for sensing, with ROS running in Docker on a Raspberry Pi.

I worked as a payload engineer at FIU and later as a design engineer at UCF. The expandable wheel shown here was part of my payload work.

For the Spaceport America Cup, I designed powertrains and composite fins using SolidWorks and finite element analysis, with mentorship from Blue Origin engineers.

I designed and prototyped hinge-based folding arms, with mounts for sensors, a camera, and a LiPo battery. The mechanical design took inspiration from DJI’s Mavic series, and I used computational fluid dynamics simulations to evaluate the design.

For GE’s co-op competition, I led the team and redesigned the chassis around a LiPo battery in place of four AA batteries. A voltage regulator provided adjustable motor power; the setup overdrove the motors by 40% without failures.

I also designed a new front shield and integrated IR sensors for detection and control.

I led a team of GE Appliances co-ops through the design and manufacturing of a universal oven spill-guard. We produced CAD models and fabricated mockups, then presented the concept to company directors for evaluation as a new product initiative.

In high school, I worked in a team of three on a turbine-driven magnet–coil assembly. Flowing water turned the turbine, converting mechanical motion into electricity through electromagnetic induction.