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# Shakthi Sairam on Tal

## Headline

Helping Indians age gracefully @Aroleap

## About

Mechanical engineer by profession, Does\-anything\-that\-solves\-the\-problem\-engineer by passion\. 5\+ years of New product development experience in the MedTech and HealthTech industry\. Loves bringing crazy ideas to life, takes complete ownership of his products\. Currently part of a team of curious individuals who are trying to revolutionize the way Indians do strength training, and help a million people age with grace and strength\. Read more @ www\.aroleap\.com

## Location

Chennai

## AI stack

claude

hugging face

notion

obsidian

## Work experience

Lead R&D engineer at Aroleap, Nov 2025 \- Present · 11 mo, Bengaluru

Founding Engineer \- Mechatronics Lead at Symbionic, Apr 2021 \- Nov 2025 · 4 y 7 mo, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, As a founding engineer at Symbionic, I led the end\-to\-end mechatronics development of assistive and prosthetic robotic systems\. \- Owned the mechatronics architecture across mechanical design, electronics, sensing, firmware and biomechanics for prosthetic and assistive devices\. \- Mentored interns and junior engineers, contributing to team growth and cross\-functional technical decision\-making\. Major impact form my work here \- \- Deployed 10\+ prosthetic devices to 100\+ users, supported field testing, iterated based on user feedback and real\-world conditions\. \- Built functional demos and product prototypes that contributed to raising ₹8\+ crore in venture and grant funding\. \- Developed the prototype showcased on Shark Tank India Season 4, Episode 52, and got 50L a grant and an 80L investment on air\. \- Patented 2 designs and won a few International design awards\.

Intern Mechanical Design Engineer at Stafford Controls Limited, Sep 2020 \- Oct 2020 · 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, STAFFORD Valves has modern manufacturing unit, in Ambattur \(Chennai\)\. STAFFORD facilitates a State\-of\-the\-art manufacture facility which leverages the best in technology\. I was involved as an intern in the following activities, \- Design of improved Butterfly valves \- Simulation of Cv characteristics\.

Intern Simulation Engineer at Shiretechnik Solutions Pvt Ltd, Aug 2020 \- Oct 2020 · 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Involved in the CFD simulation of Aerospace components using CAESES Software

Intern Design Engineer at Symbionic, Jun 2020 \- Apr 2021 · 11 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Worked on my final year thesis to complete the design of bionic arm TITAN \- Designed enclosures for electronic components \- DFA for SLA and FDM 3D printing \- FEA and material selection for different components, tolerance stack analysis\.

Undergraduate Research Assistant at Vellore Institute of Technology, May 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 11 mos, Worked on a year long project involved in the testing of 3D printed TPMS structures using different materials\. I was mainly involved in, \- Modelling of test geometry conforming to the product \- FEA Simulation of geometry and recording data \- Destructive testing of components for failure mode validation

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology

12th grade, Chinmaya Vidyalaya

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