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Mechanical Design Engineer | Semiconductor Equipment NPD & VAVE | Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies (Applied Materials) | DFM/DFMEA | Tolerance Stack-up & FEA

About

I'm a Mechanical Design Engineer with 6.6 years of experience building things that have to work reliably in unforgiving environments — semiconductor process equipment, automated assembly lines, and industrial machinery. Right now I'm a Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies, deployed at Applied Materials, where I own the mechanical design and validation of hardware for semiconductor process equipment — from early concept through 3D modeling, tolerance stack-up analysis, and test/validation. A big part of my role is Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE): finding ways to cut cost without cutting corners on reliability, which has translated into up to 25% cost reduction on key assemblies. Before this, I designed special purpose automation tooling for a Bosch steering column assembly line, and earlier still, I built rice-processing machinery from the ground up — including reverse-engineering projects and taking a product from prototype to full-scale production. What ties all of this together is that I like solving problems that don't come with a manual. Undocumented, ambiguous, half-defined — that's usually where I do my best work, because I'm comfortable figuring things out hands-on rather than waiting for someone to hand me a spec. A few things I bring to the table: • Deep CAD/simulation skills across Creo, SolidWorks, UG NX, and Autodesk Inventor • DFM/DFA/DFMEA-driven design thinking, grounded in real manufacturing processes (machining, welding, sheet metal) • Comfort working across manufacturing, procurement, and quality teams to actually get changes implemented, not just proposed • A genuine interest in mentoring — I've informally guided junior engineers and enjoy helping people get unstuck Open to connecting with fellow mechanical design engineers, especially anyone working in semiconductor equipment or precision automation.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

gemini

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

Work experience

Lead Engineer at HCLTech, Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos, Banglore

Design Engineer at Mold-Tek Technologies Limited, Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

SPM Design Engineer at Mold-Tek Technologies Limited, Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Design Engineer at RICETEC Machinery Pvt. Ltd., Jul 2020 - Jan 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, -worked in R&D projects and reverse engineering design -generate the 3d model and 2d drafting's with GD&T -minimizing the no of components in product and reducing the cost by adding new methods -generating the Bom in excel and costing the product -updating the soft and hard copy of file's -solving the day-to-day production issues and resolving those with new methods of techniques

Jr. Assistant Engineer at cad craft solutions, Jan 2020 - Jun 2020 · 6 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, MACHINE DESIGN, CRIT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mechanical Engineering, K.S.R.M. College of Engineering