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Work Experience

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Sanctuary AI

Mechanical Engineer
Jan 2026 - Present (Full-time)
Oct 2025 - Dec 2025 (Part-time)

By my return back to Vancouver, I immediately started working on dexterous manipulation in the local Humanoid startup - Sanctuary AI. First as a part time intern, then transitioning to a full time mechanical engineer role.

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Highlights:

  • Led hydraulic sealing root cause analysis - FMEA, Ishikawa, machining, test design, and iteration across 16+ configurations.

  • Resolved surface finish, geometry, hardness, and seal dynamics failures extending seal life from 10K to 400K+ cycles

  • Delivered test documentation, assembly process, and configuration control methodology using profilometer, internal micrometer, Keyence IM-X, and borescope, directly informing production RFQ

Tesla Inc

Optimus Actuators 
Manufacturing Engineer - Intern
Sep 2024 - Aug 2025 
My final, year-long Co-op in Palo Alto, California, involved working closely with some of the best manufacturing engineers at Tesla to bring the world’s first humanoid robot production line to life. I enjoyed every moment of this project and gained firsthand experience in the complete lifecycle of mass production - from design for manufacturability (DFM), Capacity Analysis, and Layout drafting to single-handedly commissioning and sustaining a production line.

I also acquired practical knowledge of various electromechanical actuators, which I had to research, test and troubleshoot on a daily basis.

Below are some of my key achievements:
 

  • Designed and built over 60x tools  to enable actuator production and build 50x Teslabots for "We robot" event.

  • Conducted OEE study and drafted assembly line layout by capturing 10+ hours of production footage with GoPro.

  • Independently coordinated cross-functional Factory teams and managed the receipt and installation of over 100x workstations within a 1-month period, meeting key deadlines and preparing the site for the manufacturing team's arrival.

  • Managed a rotary actuator production line for 3 months, reporting yield performance with SQL, performing root cause analysis on top Pareto failures and maintaining and reissuing line tooling.

  • Led the development of manufacturing interfaces for rotary actuators by coordinating cross-functional meetings with design and integration teams, resulting in detailed documentation for automated assembly processes.

  • Identified over 20x DFM improvements of the rotary actuator to be implemented in the next gen actuators to improve its manufacturability.

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Ideon Technologies

Mechanical Engineer - Intern
Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 (Part-time)
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023 (Full-time)

An amazing Co-op experience where I got a chance to supervise a manufacturing process of Muon Tomography Detectors ("X-ray" for earth rare metals).

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Highlights:

  • Developed Work instructions and Quality Control procedures for Muon tomography detector production, facilitating the outsourcing of product manufacturing in the US.

  • Conducted and documented the Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) of the new product

  • Organized an assembly line for the fabrication of muon tomography detectors.

  • Supervised a team of seven technicians, achieving high productivity and meeting tight deadlines.

  • Designed, procured equipment, and assembled a 600W heat chamber to perform Thermal Failure Mode testing.

  • Utilized the designed heat chamber and DAQ system to identify a thermal fault condition via 120 hours testing procedure.

Dometic

Mechanical Engineer - Intern
Jan 2023 - May 2023

My second Co-op where I was lucky to work on the new generation of RV Combi-heaters. My primarily responsibility was to assist the engineering team with testing of the new HVAC system to accelerate its release.  

 

Highlights

  • Organized, and integrated over 300 requirement clauses derived from 8 distinct IEC standards into a comprehensive testing plan map
    ● Designed, assembled, and utilized a heat chamber test bench to test an RV-heater against 12x IEC standards and prove its compliance. 
    ● Reviewed CAD models and drawings, proposed design updates, ensuring adherence to ASME Y14.5M-2009.
    ● Upgraded the electrical and controls components of the pump test bench, effectively doubling its throughput from 5 to 10 pumps, resulting in 1680 additional hours of runtime.

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SFU Power Electronics and Energy Applications Laboratory

Power systems research assistant - Co-op 
May 2022 - Sep 2022

My first Co-op term I completed in a role of research assistant. The research aimed on discovering new methods of utilizing supercapacitors as  buffers for power grids. 

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Highlights​​

  • Researched the state-of-the-art supercapacitor models for large-scale power grid applications.

  • Designed a test bench to validate the accuracy of Zubieta’s model on a single BCAP3000 supercapacitor.

  • Designed a custom PCB circuit in Altium to amplify the over-shunt signal read by the DAQ system.

  • Developed a wave designing program in LabVIEW to enable real-time control of the test bench.

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