Summary 📋
Thermal / Mechanical Design Engineer with experience in power electronics and electric machines. Experimentalist at heart ❤️.
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Skills 🛠️
| Category | Details |
|---|---|
| Programming & Data Analysis | Python, MATLAB, C, SQL, Git |
| CFD & FEA | ANSYS (Electronics Desktop / Mechanical / Icepak), COMSOL Multiphysics |
| Engineering Experimentation | DOE, High Throughput Testing, High Voltage Systems, Statistical Analysis |
| 3D CAD & PLM | Onshape, SOLIDWORKS, Autodesk Inventor, FreeCAD, Arena PLM |
| GD&T & Tolerance Analysis | ASME Y14.5 Advanced Certification, 3DCS Statistical Tolerance Analysis |
Experience 💼
Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer, Tesla, Palo Alto, CA
January 2026 - Present
- The future is bright :)
Product Engineer - Conifer Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
October 2024 - December 2025
- Led the development from concept to customer pilot of a novel 230/460 V, 1.5 HP EC motor. Worked with cross-functional team of electromagnetic and mechanical design engineers leveraging robust Arena PLM system, while ensuring compliance with UL 1004 and IE5 efficiency standards.
- Conducted comprehensive design optimization on stators and rotors, including reduced-order modeling, DFM/DFA reviews, and FEA, ultimately reducing BOM costs by 50%, increasing efficiency by 5%, and improving power density by 30%.
- Validated in-house, reduced-order motor performance models for torque, back EMF, power factor, current draw, various EM/mechanical losses, and thermal resistances with statistical confidence.
- Prepared 50+ detailed assembly and part drawing packages for global manufacturers and tier 1/2 suppliers in accordance with ASME Y14.5 standards, while collaborating with industrial design partners to meet aesthetic requirements of final product.
- Brought up high-voltage dyno testing station with safe and automated testing capabilities and standardized EOL and accelerated life testing procedures to ensure product longevity and reliability for 40,000+ hrs.
Thermal Engineer - Conifer Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
May 2023 - September 2024
- Engineered the thermal and mechanical design for a line of 48-72 V and 250-400 A air-cooled automotive inverters experiencing 120+ W/cm2 heat fluxes, leveraging Ansys Electronics Desktop to optimize PCB layout, heat sink, and enclosure design, ultimately reducing board footprint by 30% and product weight by 40%.
- Worked with a cross-functional team of power electronics, layout, and software/firmware engineers to meet thermal requirements while minimizing EMI, transient voltage spikes, current sensing error, and current ripple/imbalance.
- Developed thermal testing procedures to validate conduction/switching loss models for inverters with statistical confidence, leading to improved device selection and thermal derating strategies that reduced the number of required MOSFETs from 12 to 6 while maintaining 90% of the original power output.
Internships & Teaching Experience 🎓
| Position | Organization | Location | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teaching Assistant | University of Toronto | Toronto, ON | January 2022 - May 2023 |
| Mechanical Engineering Student | Canadian Natural Resources Limited, Static Equipment Engineering | Calgary, AB | May 2020 - December 2020 |
| Project Coordinator | Aman Builders | Sherwood Park, AB | August 2019 - December 2019 |
| Mechanical Engineering Student | City of Edmonton, Fleet and Facility Services | Edmonton, AB | April 2018 - December 2018 |
| Research Associate | University of Alberta, Dynamic Thermal Energy Conversion Laboratory | Edmonton, AB | April 2018 - December 2018 |
Education 📚
Master of Applied Science, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - University of Toronto
September 2021 - May 2023
- Conducted experimentally-driven research in high-heat flux thermal management of EV power electronics, focused on phase change heat transfer (heat pipes/plates, metallic phase change materials, evaporative cooling).
- Developed and validated novel analytic thermal models to predict phase change material heat sink performance under periodic high heat flux (100+~W/cm^2) conditions, resulting in $30,000 in scholarships for research and academic excellence.
- Thesis: Phase Change Heat Sinks under Periodic Heating: Analysis and Experimental Verification. Supervised by Professor Cristina H. Amon (ATOMS Laboratory) and Professor Sanjeev Chandra (CACT).
- Relevant Coursework: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Heat Transfer with Phase Change, Thermal Management of Electric Vehicles.
- Cumulative GPA: 4.0/4.0
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering - University of Alberta
September 2015 - June 2020
- Relevant Coursework: Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics
- Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.0
Projects 🚀
Find them all over this website 😊
Patents & Publications 📄
| Title | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Axial Electric Machine Stator Frame and Stator Wiring Scheme | US Provisional Patent | 2025 |
| Rotor Embedded Impellers for Axial Flux Machine Cooling | US Provisional Patent | 2024 |
| Thermal response to periodic heating of a heat sink incorporating a phase change material | International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | 2024 |
| Phase Change Material-Based Cooling Systems Subject to Periodic Heating: Lumped Analysis and Experimental Verification | ITherm 2023 | 2023 |
Certificates & Honors 🏆
| Name | Issuer | Date | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) - Y14.5 | ASME | 2025 | - |
| ASME Y14.5-2018 – GD&T Fundamentals | ASME | 2024 | - |
| Climate Positive Energy Graduate Scholarship | UofT | 2022 | $15,000 |
| Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science & Technology | MCU | 2022 | $15,000 |
| CS50X Introduction to Computer Science | Harvard | 2021 | - |
| Northern Lights Thorsten Watterodt Award for Excellence in Design | UofA | 2020 | $3,750 |
| Hutton Family Scholarship in Engineering | UofA | 2020 | $1,000 |
| Louise McKinney Post‑Secondary Scholarship | UofA | 2016-2019 | $2,000 |
| Nelson Book Prize for Excellence in Technical Writing | UofA | 2018 | - |
| NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award | NSERC | 2017 | $6,000 |