Career Chronicles

Professional Experience

2020 - Present

Reliability Engineer, Apple Inc.

Shipped: M4 and M3 MacBook Air, M1 Mac Pro, Channel Store Fixtures deployed in 100+ stores internationally

Driving reliability decisions influencing design, process, and integration for systems with millions in shipping volume to meet/surpass our rigorous field reliability standards

2025

Internal Product Design Rotation, Apple Inc.

Designed (on NX), built, and deployed a new-to-Apple cycling test fixture to drive design down-selection and characterize dynamic flexible circuit behavior for a next-gen Mac program.
Created technical synergy by connecting experts from disparate teams and developing a cohesive workflow for fatigue modeling including model development, simulation, testing, and design

2019 - 2020

Mechanical Design Engineer, Halliburton Energy

Responsible for improving field performance of downhole drilling and telemetry tool (QuickPulse™) deployed at oil rigs through development of custom test fixture design and development.

Designed (on SolidWorks), engineered a pressure test fixture to withstand extreme conditions (20K psi, 165°C) including material selection, CAD design (SolidWorks), FEA simulation (ANSYS), prototyping, and in-house machining.

Education

2017-2019

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Management

Fell in love with designing real things for the real world.

Product design (architected the concept for a modular lighting system, created a working prototype ), mechatronics (designed a terrible ball collecting robot), thermal systems design (software based).
Co-oped at Halliburton for a semester, studying (and predicting) erosion on drilling tool parts on ANSYS Fluent to minimize downhole non productive time and tool replacement dollars.
Worked with Eli Lilly as part of an experiential learning project to create an actionable strategy for enhancing research collaboration of the company with academia
Pursued my private pilot dream on the side. (Got to solo!)

Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering

Experimented with different interests.

Designed, built (and failed to fly) RC planes
Did an overseas semester long thesis on computational fluid dynamics. Learned I did not enjoy it enough to pursue it at the Masters level.
Published a paper on a MEMS based sensor concept. Filed for a patent with Indian Patent Office. (granted 2023)
Led a team of 20+ students to raise the highest amount in sponsorship money until then for our annual national level technical event to directly influence the culture of technical interest and innovation on campus.
Hiked to some less explored and epic waterfalls in the state

Skills
& Expertise

Technical/Engineering

Design thinking, DFMEA, Risk assessments, driving convergence and qualification conversations, program management, prototyping, executive communication

Software

3D CAD (NX, Shapr), Statistical tools (JMP)

Software skills are fluid based on which ones I exercise at different points in my career. For my internal rotation, I picked up coding again to enable my design fixture (something I hadn't touched in almost a decade)