Hello đź‘‹
I'm Mike Ballin
Product Developer | Composites Engineer | Entrepreneur

I turn innovative ideas into real products. I co-founded Blueprint Surf to make surfboards, with a focus on practical design and intentional sustainability. My background gives me a systems perspective, so I care about how things are made, used, and what happens after. If you want to see what practical, thoughtful product development looks like, you’re in the right place.

About

For the past four years, I’ve been hands-on at every stage of building products from scratch. I helped launch Blueprint Surf, where we made surfboards with 3D-printed cores and sustainable materials—testing, tweaking, and fixing things as we went. When prototypes failed, I led the root-cause work, made changes, and kept pushing until we got it right.

I managed supply-chain headaches, like finding new vendors on short notice when our main supplier folded, and partnered with labs to test materials we couldn’t afford in-house. I handled the day-to-day—production, inventory, shipping, and customer support—and got the word out by translating technical work into clear, trustworthy stories.

My approach is practical: test, build, learn, repeat. I care about making things that last and solving real problems, not just managing processes. That’s what drives me.

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