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title: "Vikas T. - Senior Engineer - Structural Architecture/Design/Analysis and Landing gears in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Vikas T., Senior Engineer - Structural Architecture/Design/Analysis and Landing gears | Sarla Aviation | Ex - DRDO | Building Advanced Air Mobility in India based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and openai."
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# Vikas T\. on Tal

## Headline

Senior Engineer \- Structural Architecture/Design/Analysis and Landing gears \| Sarla Aviation \| Ex \- DRDO \| Building Advanced Air Mobility in India

## About

7\+ years of proven experience in the design, analysis, and development of airframes for eVTOL, UCAV, and HAPS aircraft with successful flight validation\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

openai

## Work experience

Senior Engineer \- Structural Architecture/Design/Analysis and Landing gears at Sarla Aviation, Aug 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on Airframe Architecture, Hand Calculations, Design, Analysis and Testing and Landing gears for EVTOL aircrafts for building Advanced Air Mobility in India

Design engineer \- II \- Airframes at NewSpace Research and Technologies, Jun 2023 \- Aug 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Designing and Analysing ultra lightweight airframes for high altitude pseudo satellites\.

Senior Research Fellow \- Airframes at Aeronautical Development Establishment, Jan 2022 \- May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\.Responsible for range of engineering activities involved in the end to end design cycle of UAV airframe, from the preliminary design phase to assembly stage of airframe\. 2\.I specialize in developing initial composite layup sequences, ply sequence optimization and thickness optimization of composite structures for meeting strength and stiffness criterion of aero structures 3\.In addition, I excel in layout design of aircraft, determining loads on airframe, perform hand calculations for preliminary design of airframe and its sub \- systems\. 4\.I lead a team of 5\+ engineers to conduct a variety of finite element simulations aimed at predicting the performance of the airframe under different loading scenarios\.

Junior Research Fellow \- Airframes at Aeronautical Development Establishment, Jan 2020 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Assistant System Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2016 \- Apr 2017 · 9 mos

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological university, Vizianagaram

Higher Secondary Education, Maths, Physics and Chemistry, NRI Academy, Guntur

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