Experience

Destinus

• Switzerland
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Engineer - Rocket Engines and Combustion

  • Aug 2022 - Present

• Rocket Engine Team Lead

  • Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

• Propulsion Development Engineer

  • Mar 2022 - Mar 2022



Isar Aerospace

• Germany
• Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Propulsion Engineer

  • Jul 2021 - Feb 2022

• Propulsion Engineer

  • Jul 2020 - Jun 2021


VELO3D
• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Process Engineer

  • Oct 2019 - Mar 2020


Purdue University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2019 - May 2019

• Research Assistant

  • Jan 2014 - May 2019

  Pursued research related to combustion stability in rocket engines. Supervised by Prof. William E. Anderson and Scott Meyer. Experience with writing technical documents and publishing papers. Technical documentation includes: drawings, BOM, purchasing, design reviews, P&IDs.Design, operation, data acquisition, diagnosis and maintenance of high pressure staged rocket combustors and feed systems (Projects: CVRC, TIC, DVRC, HAMSTER – fundamental research; Hypergolic RDE – new concept) o Designed, built and tested various high pressure rocket engines o Designed and assembled feed and control systems including: line preparation and sizing, stainless steel tubing, cryogenic and volatile propellant management, valve and regulator selection. o Developed tools for cross-platform analysis of experiment and simulation data, to support development and validation of predictive tools for combustion dynamics o Developed and implemented various optical diagnostic methods to study high pressure turbulent flames in rocket engines o Studied effect of gas pulsator (similar to bomb test) on combustion dynamics in system o First implementation of laser based rocket engine ignition system at Maurice J. Zucrow labs Show less



EMSS

• India
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Coordinator

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  Managed and supervised a team to survey and ensure the safety of communications arrays around various parts of South Africa. Managed and supervised a team to survey and ensure the safety of communications arrays around various parts of South Africa.



University of Pretoria

• South Africa
• Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2012

  Assisted in teaching Physics, Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics and Programming in Matlab/Octave. Tasks included: presenting information to a class, assisting with homework problems and grading tests/homeworks. Assisted in teaching Physics, Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics and Programming in Matlab/Octave. Tasks included: presenting information to a class, assisting with homework problems and grading tests/homeworks.



KB Water Treatment

• Internship

  • Nov 2010 - Jan 2011

  Product development of novel swimming pool pump and filtration system. Experience included the innovation of a new one-way valve and hands-on experience working with composites such as fiberglass. Product development of novel swimming pool pump and filtration system. Experience included the innovation of a new one-way valve and hands-on experience working with composites such as fiberglass.



Pumpco Engineering

• Internship

  • Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

  Fitting, assembly and refurbishment of heavy duty centrifugal pumps purposed for slurry clean-up on mining sites. Fitting, assembly and refurbishment of heavy duty centrifugal pumps purposed for slurry clean-up on mining sites.