Hi !
I'm Katana
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
MY EXPERTISE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
PRODUCT DESIGN
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
SOLIDWORKS
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURE
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
MECHANICAL ANALYSIS
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
RAPID PROTOTYPING
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
CNC & MANUAL MACHINING
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING
HIGHLY PROFICIENT
PROJECT PORTFOLIO
WORK EXPERIENCE
[Aug 2025 - Present]
MECHANICAL ENGINEER LEAD
Designing and developing mechanical components and assemblies for medical devices, and making breakthroughs in the field of Soft Robotics.
[Sep 2023 - Jun 2025]
GRADUATE RESEARCHER
Conceptualized and designed incubators for species which exhibit temperature-dependent sex determination.
[Jan 2023 - Jun 2024]
MIT INSTRUCTOR
Coached students in three of the most well-known mechanical engineering classes at MIT
(‘Product Engineering Process’, ‘Toy Product Design’, and ‘Introduction to Design’).
[Feb 2022 - Jun 2023] & [Feb 2025 - Jun 2025]
MIT APPRENTICE & TA
Worked as a machine shop apprentice and held weekly office hours to cover technical engineering content.
[Sep 2022 - Jun 2023] & [Sep 2024 - Dec 2024]
MIT LAB ASSISTANT & TA
​Taught the fundamentals of large scale manufacturing operations in lecture/lab for the class ‘Design and Manufacturing II’.
[Jun 2022 - Sep 2022]
INTERN
Built the optical fluidics system for a digital holographic microscope to study soil biomes.
