CV / Engineering profile

Shafiq Amat

Mechanical Engineering · Design · Controls · Product systems

samat@calpoly.edu562-280-5161shafiqamat.comlinkedin.com/in/shafiq-amat

Education

California Polytechnic State University

San Luis Obispo, CA · Sept 2022 - Expected Dec 2026

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Selected coursework

Thermal Systems DesignControl SystemsSystem DynamicsMechatronicsMechanical Systems DesignFluid Mechanics IIMeasurement & Engineering Data AnalysisThermodynamics II

Engineering profile

Mechanical engineering student building physical systems, technical tools, and internal products that make complex work easier to understand and operate.

Physical systems

Mechanisms, tooling, packaging, and manufacturable design

Controls + embedded

PID, state estimation, sensors, and real-time firmware

Analysis

FEA, thermal-fluid systems, modeling, testing, and uncertainty

Product systems

Internal tools, data-backed workflows, and usable interfaces

Experience

Mechanical Design & Manufacturing Engineering

Jun 2025 - Present

Trust Automation, Inc.

  • Rebuilt an Excel-based part-numbering system into a browser-based JavaScript tool, reducing part-number creation time by approximately 50% while standardizing inputs for engineering users.
  • Designed manufacturable packaging, workstation organization, and production-tooling systems using SolidWorks, LightBurn, laser fabrication, and controlled release workflows.
  • Created and revised manufacturing drawings, work instructions, and engineering documentation using GD&T, annotated photography, BOM references, and configuration control.

Member Portal & Chapter Website

Nov 2023 - Present

Theta Tau, Cal Poly SLO

  • Built and maintain production React applications for a 40+ member engineering organization, including a public website and private member portal gated by Google OAuth through Supabase Auth.
  • Designed an interactive ME curriculum planner that resolves prerequisite and corequisite chains across quarter and semester catalogs and recommends courses using downstream dependency analysis.
  • Architected persistent user state with debounced auto-save to Supabase PostgreSQL and added a professor review system with term-aware filtering and course-level aggregation.

Orientation Customer Support Specialist

Apr 2024 - Present

Cal Poly SLO

  • Resolved last-minute registration changes, coordinated distribution of 6,000+ personalized student packets, and collaborated across university departments to solve system and process issues.

Regent / President

Apr 2024 - Apr 2025

Theta Tau, Cal Poly SLO

  • Led a 14-officer executive board for a 40+ member engineering fraternity and coordinated more than 20 professional, service, and social events each academic quarter.
  • Developed long-term sustainability goals through revised bylaws and coordinated a national convention with national board members and chapter officers.

Trust Automation work is summarized at a public-safe level; confidential project names and details are intentionally omitted.

Selected projects

Lattice Damper System Design

Cal Poly Senior Project · Jan 2026 - Present

  • Designed lattice damper components in SolidWorks and advanced the system through PDR and CDR review cycles with iterative stakeholder feedback.
  • Developed nonlinear ANSYS FEA models using a first-order Ogden material model and connected force-deflection simulation results to Instron compression testing.

Autonomous Line-Following Robot

Open ->

Cal Poly Mechatronics · Jan - Mar 2026

  • Designed MicroPython firmware on an STM32 Nucleo with cooperative motor, sensing, observer, and user-interaction tasks.
  • Implemented PID line following and a pose observer that fused quadrature encoders with BNO055 IMU heading and yaw-rate data for line-free navigation.

Theta Tau SLO Internal Platform

Open ->

Product systems · Nov 2023 - Present

  • Built a private student hub with Google OAuth, persistent curriculum planning, concentration tracking, and shared professor reviews.
  • Separated the internal product surface from the public chapter website while keeping the experience approachable for non-technical members.

Powder Transfer Rotation Mechanism

Cal Poly Mechanical Systems Design · Spring 2025

  • Designed a scaled hopper-inversion gearbox in SolidWorks with a self-locking 10:1 worm-gear transmission, 180-degree rotation, and a 125 dollar budget constraint.
  • Built parametric analyses for gear loading, shaft stress and deflection, bearing reactions, and set-screw retention, then validated prototype motion under a 15 lb test load.

Controls, Fluids & Thermal Systems Labs

Cal Poly laboratory projects · 2025 - 2026

  • Built MATLAB/Simulink models for PMDC motors, vehicle dynamics, quarter-car suspension, traction, and differential-drive robots using transfer functions, state-space models, and numerical ODE solvers.
  • Performed wind-tunnel, boundary-layer, cylinder-drag, nozzle-flow, thermocouple, strain-gauge, heat-exchanger, and radiator experiments with uncertainty analysis.

Self-Hosted Cloud & Network Infrastructure

Personal homelab · 2026 - Present

  • Deployed Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi 5 with a dedicated SSD, Tailscale mesh VPN, Docker, Pi-hole, Unbound recursive DNS, and static-IP network configuration.
  • Built a private remote-access setup without exposing services directly to the public internet and maintained it across home-network and remote connections.