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title: "S.B. Maheswara Reddy - Lead Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet S.B. Maheswara Reddy, Mechanical Design Engineer | Semiconductor Equipment NPD & VAVE | Lead Engineer at HCL Technologies (Applied Materials) | DFM/DFMEA | Tolerance Stack-up & FEA based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and ChatGPT."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/sangireddy-gari-bala-maheswara-reddy/share-image"
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# S\.B\. Maheswara Reddy on Tal

## Headline

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

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