Aravind G.

Experience

• Mechanical Engineer General Dynamics · Contract Sep 2025 – Present 6 mos Calgary, AB, Canada Working on Department of Defence Canada projects.
• Mechaincal Design Engineer Attabotics Inc · Full-time Jan 2023 – Jun 2025 2 yrs 5 mos Calgary, AB, Canada • Managed teams (Design, CNC, Procurement, Embedded, and Electrical) and performed cost reduction on critical system components by applying first principles and improved DFM. Result: BOM cost reduced by 56% in 6 months.
  • Designed new components and performed finite element analysis to support the Attabotics fulfillment system, including automated 3D material handling robots, structures, conveyors, and peripheral equipment using sheet metal, CNC, 3D printing, and injection molding manufacturing techniques.
  • Solved Kinematic calculation for gearbox load cases and various component selections (bearings, bushings, motors)
  • Designed new test fixtures and test structures to validate design decisions and NPI failures using first principles and RCA.
• Member of Technical Staff MDA Aerospace · Full-time Jun 2020 – Dec 2022 2 yrs 6 mos ON, Canada • Designed and performed FEA on Engineering Development Unit (EDU) for Dexterous Grapple Fixture, Small ORU Robotic Interface – Canadarm 3 program.
  • Responsible for designing mechanisms, detailed models, and functional arrangements (NX 11) based on ICD for robotic interfaces, including a complex tie-down mechanism for bolt interface in lunar orbit, an autonomous power and data connector compliance mechanism, and a grapple fixture interface mechanism for payload assembly in lunar orbit.
  -Designed and drafted Intelsat and thuraya satellite components.
• Mechaincal Design Engineer Smartwave Technologies · Full-time Jun 2018 – Jun 2020 2 yrs ON, Canada • Performed mechanical design development using Solidworks from concept to high-volume production of cast metal and plastic housing/casing, electro-mechanical actuators, motor drives, etc. for consumer electronics (Purell Hand Sanitizer Dispenser and Sloan smart faucet) and electro-mechanical products. (Solidworks and Creo for customer products, and NX for advanced engineering and internal projects)
• Mechanical Designer Molex Canada · Full-time Mar 2017 – Apr 2018 1 yrs 1 mos Montreal, QC, Canada • Using CAD tools (NX, AutoCAD, and Ansys) to design preliminary concepts, product development, and manufacturing parts of radio-frequency parts like circulators, isolators, diplexers, and electronics enclosures and packaging design.