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Batra.

I inherited my grandfather's 1995 Mercedes E320 at 15 with no formal mechanical training. When a dealership charged $400 and made the electrical problem worse, I sat down with the wiring diagrams, picked up a DMM, and found the fault myself. The fix came from the diagrams, not from guessing. Trace the system, verify the result, do not assume. That has been the approach ever since.

The E320 became a permanent project. Engine top-end rebuild, rear fender fitment and modification work, fiber optic audio bus bypass on the C32 AMG, a CarPlay head unit running off a custom 12V regulated supply I sized to hold voltage through crank. Most of it was done on my own. None of it came with instructions. Each job taught me something a lab class does not replicate: what it actually feels like when a system does not behave, and how to stay methodical until it does.

At Cal Poly Pomona I apply the same mindset to formal engineering. I ran a complete ANSYS Fluent CFD pipeline solo on my own car's geometry, from geometry cleanup through post-processing, the full job most course teams split four ways. Led a machine elements team from first-principles AGMA analysis to a 3D-printed gearbox prototype that confirmed drivetrain motion under load. For senior design I built an offline AI tracking camera through three hardware revisions, Pi 3 to Jetson Orin Nano, running at 12–18 FPS in ROS 2 with no cloud dependency. Graduating May 2026, looking for roles in test, integration, or embedded systems engineering.