# Devin Espin (Engineering Specialist, SendCutSend)

- Show: [Just Gonna Send It](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it)
- Published: 2025-10-08
- Length: 44m
- Episode: 5
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend

## Summary

Devin Espin, an Engineering Technician Specialist at SendCutSend, shares his journey from a rural Nevada upbringing to his current role in R&D. He details his early experiences in automotive body shops, professional paintball, bull riding, and amateur tattooing, which honed his hands-on fabrication skills. Espin explains how he built a custom Sprinter van as a practical resume to secure a job at SendCutSend, emphasizing the company's culture of hiring based on tangible building experience rather than just credentials.

## Chapters

- [0:09](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend#t=9) Introduction and Role at SendCutSend
- [3:15](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend#t=195) Early Life and Grandfather's Influence
- [12:18](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend#t=738) Automotive Body Shop Career
- [18:25](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend#t=1105) Paintball, Bull Riding, and Tattooing
- [38:11](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend#t=2291) Building the Custom Sprinter Van
- [43:16](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/just-gonna-send-it/2025-10-08-devin-espin-engineering-specialist-sendcutsend#t=2596) Hiring Philosophy and Advice

## Topics

- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)
- [Fabrication & craft](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/fabrication-and-craft)
- [Hiring & workforce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/hiring-and-workforce)
- [Prototyping & iteration](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/prototyping)

## Most relevant to

companies scaling up

## Mentioned

- SendCutSend (company)
- Sprinter (product)
- HPA Paintball (company)
- Reno Bike Project (company)
- Jesse James (other)
- Monster Garage (other)

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