Mechanical Engineer
Dublin, Ireland · MEng, DCU
Open to internships & placements
I simulate it, then I build it — and find out whether the simulation was right.
MEng in Simulation-Driven Design at Dublin City University. Wind-energy aerodynamics, UAV propulsion and functional 3D printing — and I founded and captained a 20-person drone team through national competitions.
Every project on this page runs the same loop. The interesting engineering is in the last step — the gap between what the model promised and what the hardware actually did.
01 — Simulate
Work out the aerodynamic, structural or electrical behaviour before anything is cut, printed or wired. Cheap iterations happen here.
Where I've done it
02 — Build
CAD to physical part: additive manufacturing, fabrication, wiring, assembly. A design that can't be built isn't a design yet.
Where I've done it
03 — Validate
Test rigs, wind tunnels, instrumented flights. Measure the real thing and compare it honestly with the prediction.
Where I've done it
Designed, analysed and optimised a straight-bladed Darrieus rotor, then took it into a wind tunnel. Two objectives: maximise power output under varying loads, and minimise the deviation between predicted and measured performance.
At Avironix Drones I sized motors and battery packs for different UAVs — then designed, analysed, fabricated and tested a propulsion test rig to check those choices on the bench. It became my BE thesis.
Turbonites Team Delta — UAV
Founded and captained Turbonites Team Delta, an interdepartmental UAV team of 20. We designed mission-specific autonomous multirotors for AeroTHON and ADDC — payload drops, computer vision, long endurance.
Large-format functional print
A startup I founded and run, supplying functional 3D printing and prototyping to industrial and engineering projects — parts that carry load and fit an assembly, not display pieces.
2026Aero & energy
Straight-bladed wind turbine, designed and optimised for power output, then validated in a wind tunnel against its predicted performance.
Wind-tunnel validation
2024–25UAV propulsion
Motor and battery-pack sizing for different UAVs, checked on a test rig I designed, analysed and fabricated. BE thesis.
Avironix Drones · internship
2024–nowManufacturing
Functional 3D printing and prototyping service for industrial and engineering projects.
Founder & owner
2024–25Vehicles
Led the powertrain department: motor and battery sizing, powertrain design and calculations, and integrated electrical safety features.
Head of Powertrain · Turbonites
2023–25Autonomous UAV
Mission-specific autonomous multirotors with payload dropping and computer vision. Propulsion and power optimisation, calibration, PID tuning, mission planning.
ADDC 2024 — 2nd, Best Design Report · AeroTHON 2024 & 2025
2023–24Robotics
Designed a fully autonomous lunar rover with sample collection and drop capability.
IRoC-U 2024 — ISRO Robotics Challenge, U R Rao Satellite Centre
2023–24Robotics
Designed and built a high-speed line-following robot with Team McQuade.
Universal Robo League — national level
2023Robotics
My first competition build: an automated guided vehicle with obstacle avoidance, with Team Tronics.
Robo Rumble 2023
2023–24Autonomous UAV
High-endurance multirotor with payload-dropping capability — Team Delta's first aircraft.
AeroTHON 2023
2023Electronics
ESP32-based wireless micro camera, viewable from any browser on the local Wi-Fi network. Designed and fabricated with Team Tronics.
1st place — CARPE DIEM hackathon, LICET
2023–24Electronics
Arduino Pro Mini flight computer with an MPU6050 accelerometer/gyroscope and a BMP280 barometer.
Personal project
2022–23Vehicles
Procurement, frame fabrication, vehicle wiring and electrical safety, powertrain assembly. Brought in 5S workshop organisation; pit manager at competition.
Powertrain member · Turbonites
Most of it ran in parallel. In 2024 I was interning on UAV propulsion, running a 3D-printing business, captaining a drone team and heading an E-Kart powertrain — at the same time.
Avironix Drones
XTRUDE3D
Turbonites Team Delta — UAV · LICET
Turbonites — E-Kart · LICET
Turbonites — Baja ATV · LICET
Turbonites · LICET
Ran drone-design workshops; set up a 3D-printing stall to raise money for charity and a BBQ stall at the college symposium.
Found and coordinated sponsors; arranged stalls with food partners.
Organised and hosted STEM events and quizzes.
Trained juniors for off-stage events. 1st and 3rd in JAM (speaking); 3rd in short film.
Department parade commander for sports day — drill, discipline and presentation. Department chess team.
ADDC 2025, SAEISS. With Team Phoenix — calibration, troubleshooting and test flights.
NLSC, SAEISS. Showed distinctive 3D-printing methods and features; 1st place at both zonal and college level.
SAEISS ADDC 2024 — Autonomous Drone Development Challenge. An industry-standard design report for Team Delta's entry.
NLSC, SAEISS. 1st place at both zonal and college level.
NLSC, SAEISS.
LICET. Designed and fabricated a rapidly deployable surveillance system.
Inter-school competition, statewide.
A piezoelectric shoe that charges a phone while jogging.
Invited judge for the shark-tank event at LICET's technical symposium.
Invited judge for the interdepartmental hackathon run by LICET's Institution's Innovation Council.
Guided the development of an autonomous railway-track maintenance rover.
Guided Dynami-Shoe, a piezoelectric energy-harvesting shoe that powers small electronic devices.
Dublin City University — Major in Simulation-Driven Design
Loyola-ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET), Chennai
SOLIDWORKS certification
SOLIDWORKS certification
Prusa Research
NPTEL
English proficiency
British Council
Engineering, for me, is less a degree than a habit: find a real problem, get the right people around it, and build something that works.
I grew up in Chennai and took a First Class BE in Mechanical Engineering at LICET. Most of those four years happened outside the lecture hall — on a Baja team, founding a UAV team, running a 3D-printing business and interning on drone propulsion at Avironix.
Now I'm in Dublin doing an MEng at DCU with a major in simulation-driven design, adding modelling rigour to the building habit. I'm competitive by nature, and I like bringing together people with the same mindset to solve a problem properly.
Off the clock
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I'm looking for internships and placements in mechanical design, simulation and UAV systems. Email is the fastest way to reach me.