Ian Carmenates
I'm a Mechanical Engineering student with over three years of hands-on industrial maintenance and troubleshooting — automotive performance, electromechanical systems, and self-hosted software. I fix things, then figure out why they broke in the first place.
What I'm studying.
Coursework in statics, thermodynamics, and mechanical design, applied directly to automotive and electromechanical side projects outside the classroom.
Where I've worked.
Objective: Maintain high operational uptime across a 128-machine arcade fleet with integrated electromechanical hardware.
Result: 95% sustained uptime through logic-level diagnostics and component-level PCB repair, rather than blanket part replacement.
What I've built.
Objective: Handle my own automotive repairs and performance modifications, including tuning, rather than outsourcing them.
Result: Hands-on experience across mechanical repair, part upgrades, and tuning work, applied directly to my own vehicle.
Objective: Develop modular hardware and custom automotive components from scratch, designed for manufacturability.
Result: Functional printed parts and fixtures, modeled in Fusion 360 and produced via FDM on a Bambu Lab P1S.
Objective: Build a personal finance PWA with full control over the data and infrastructure it runs on.
Result: A Dockerized Node/Express backend on a home Proxmox server, synced live across devices over a private Tailscale mesh network.
Let's build something.
Open to summer 2027 internships and co-ops in automotive and engine engineering.