Mechanical engineering, end to end.
From CAD to flight hardware.
University of Waterloo · Recovery Co-Lead, Waterloo Rocketry · Available for Fall 2026 co-op.
Recovery System 2026 — Bulkhead stack, three-quarter view.
Featured Project — 2026
Recovery System 2026Recovery Co-Lead · Waterloo Rocketry · 2025–2026
The Recovery System is a single-step dual-deploy parachute system designed to safely return a UW Rocketry competition rocket from an apogee of 70,000 ft. A drogue chute deploys at apogee to stabilize descent, then the main chute deploys at 2,000 ft for full recovery. The entire system has to survive a 15,000 lbf shock load while staying within a strict mass budget. This is a flight-critical structural engineering problem with one chance to work in flight. I joined UW Rocketry as Recovery Co-Lead in September 2025 and led the mechanical design of the system, managing 10+ engineering students across the recovery subsystem teams.
Experience
Recovery Co-Lead · UW Rocketry
- Led mechanical design of a competition rocket's dual-deploy parachute recovery system, managing 10+ engineering students across the recovery subsystems.
- Modeled the full electrical hardware stack into the boat CAD (battery, motor, harnesses, controls) and verified the hydrofoil lift mechanism's travel range and clearances with SolidWorks kinematic motion studies.
- Standardized a hardware-in-the-loop bench so deployment logic is verified before vehicle integration, eliminating two historical day-of failure modes.
Mechanical Engineer · ENVGO
- Reduced pump-housing tolerance stack from ±0.4 mm to ±0.15 mm via revised datum scheme, eliminating post-machining at the contract manufacturer.
- Owned the DFM review for two injection-molded enclosures shipped to first-article inspection inside the 12-week co-op window.
- Built a Python tooling pipeline that generated GD&T inspection sheets directly from SolidWorks drawing metadata.
Lead Engineer · Novika Technologies
- Built and shipped a hardware-adjacent SaaS used by independent engineering shops to track CAD revision history.
- Sole engineer across product, infrastructure, and customer development; first 12 paying users acquired through cold outbound.
About
I am a second-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Waterloo. I work on hardware that has to leave the bench. Recovery systems for sounding rockets, industrial-scale 3D printers, and arm-mounted mechanisms that have to survive thousands of cycles. I care about the parts most people skip. The hand calcs that catch what the FEA misses, the ground tests that have to pass before anyone fires anything, and the electrical-mechanical integration that does not surprise the team at assembly. Alongside the mechanical work I lead engineering at Novika, an AI material specification platform I co-built for interior designers.
- Design
- SolidWorks · Fusion 360
- Analysis
- SolidWorks Simulation FEA · Hand Calculations
- Fabrication
- 3D Printing · Lathe · 3-Axis Mill · GD&T
- Code
- Python · C++ · JavaScript