Nicolas Tan's Portfolio
"Take action, an inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention" – Steve Maraboli
Biomechanical & Electrical Engineer

AI/HPC Semiconductor (GPU Infrastructure), Humanoid Mechatronics, Aeronautical Deployment, Consumer Hardware Device Development, Autonomous Vehicles, Venture Capital Investments

WORKED FOR
SKILLS
Mechanical Engineering Core Competencies
•SolidWorks CSWP | FEA, CFD, Surfacing, Simulations (ANSYS, Siemens NX Alternative)
•DFX: DFT, DFM | Sheet Metal, Stamping, Plastic Injection Molding, Die Casting, Ultrasound Welding
•GD&T ASME Y14.5 Certified: Tolerance Stack-Up Analysis | Monte Carlo, WCSS
•Statistics | MiniTab, JMP, MATLAB Toolbox
•Hand Calculations | Fatigue/Safety Factor, Endurance Limits, Mechanics of Materials, Statics, Dynamics, Material Science Attribute Selections (Ashby)
•3D Printing (SLA, FDM) | Onyx, Bamboo+
•Control Theory (Systematic) | Classical PID (Simulink, Stateflow, Simscape)
•Shopwork Machining / Hand Tools | CNC Machining, Thermal Characterization, Hysteresis Performance Cycling, Ergonomics
Reliability, Theory Tests (NPI Launch & RMA)

Software Development Core Competencies
•Configuration | Binaries (Protobuffs), Linux/Unix (Bash)
•Infra | GIT, GitLab, Docker, SLURM, Ansible
•CI/CD: Automation Pipelines, PyQT, QT C++
•Embedded/Firmware: BIOS/UEFI Triaging, Embedded C, OS Development, Bare Metal Bootloader Driver Triaging (BeagleBone) •Languages: Python SQL (#1), SDKs/APIs (#2), C C++ (#3), Java, MERN, IOS Swift (#4)
•Data Structures and Algorithms
•Robotics |ROS, Gazebo/RViz, GTSAM 4.1 for SLAM/Visual Odometry, YOLO V5/OpenCV Computer Vision Algorithms, RL/PPO Policies Exposure (I.P)
• Exposure (I.P.) Data Science/Machine Learning | Pandas, Numpy, Seaborn, Scikit Learn, Matplotlib, PyTorch, SciPy, TensorFlow
Early Career Example: HS Senior Capstone (3D Printed Eyewear)
Business Impact Core Competencies
•Product Management (PMP, PgMP Certified)
•Management Consulting | Framework Struct
•Venture Capital | Due Diligence, Crunchbase, Pitching, KPIs, Market Sizing & Segmentation (GTM Strategy), Value-Based/Financial Pricing
•Engineering Product Requirement Feature Defining | Technical Whitepaper Documentations & PRQs, NPI to Launch
•Global Distribution Channel Circumventing | Sales-Led, Marketing-Led, Direct-MSPs Led, Service/Subscription Conducting for Optimal Customer Acquisition (CAC, ASP, CLTV, SEOs)
•Product Quality Expertise | SW QA, HW QA
•Regulatory Affairs, Post Market Surveillance | Approval for CE/ISOs/MDRs/CFRs, QMS Standards, HIPAA, DMF (ISO 60601-01)
•Revenue Stream Analytics, Executives | JIRA Agile Sprints, JAMA, Airtable, Microsoft Suite (Excel, Figma, PPT), PowerBI, Tableau
• Database Design (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
•Hardware Device, Software SaaS Pipelining

About Hunniwell Lake Ventures (1st VC Firm Interned At)
Hardware Electronics Core Competencies
•Computer Architecture Expertise | x86/ARM
•GPU/CPU Characterization: Design & Performance
•Full Cycle Dev | LSIO Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs)
•SoC Development | NVIDIA Blackwell, Hopper, Rubin
•SBC Product Experience | NVIDIA AGX Thor, NVIDIA Orin, NVIDIA Jetson Nano, STM32, Raspberry Pi B+
•Sensor Fusion Integration | Electromagnetic Sense Navigation, LIDAR (SLAM), RFID, Miscl. Biosensors

Hardware Electrical Engineering Core Competencies
• Flex and Rigid PCBs Schematic Creation |
Mixed-Signal Digital-Analog, Power Convertors and Efficacy Optimizing, Batteries, PI & Signal Integrity
• Schematic Capture, Layout | Altium, KiCAD
• RCA Func. Validation | Physical & Electrical Layers
•Professional Simulation | COMSOL, LTSpice XVII
•High-Level Communication Protocols | Network, Digital Signal Processing, Radio-Frequency (RFID)
•Inter-PCB Communication Protocols: I2C, SPI, UART, MIPI (Camera Vision), CAN-Bus (Mobile Vehicles), JTAG; High-Speed PCIe, NVLink, NVMe (SSD), NVIDIA Infiniband, CXL (Mezzaine I/O), EtherCAT/Ethernet, Out-of-Band NICs / Fiber Optics
•Design Verification Development | Chip/System Level eROT Security, Glacier Reboots, Script Design FPGA with SystemVerilog/UVM, Verilog
• Physical Design | Digital (TFlops), GDS II Flow+
•Data Center Infrastructure | Site Deployment, Rack, Compute Tray, Switch Tray, OAM Modules, Chip

Mechatronic (Robotic) Dog Project | Northeastern Robotics' GitHub
Coursework Taken | Northeastern (Excl. Harvard, Stanford)
  • Northeastern University - Boston, MA
    Class of 2022, Dean's List.
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Bioengineering -- Mechanical Focus
    Mechanical Engineering Design -- Theories of Failure, Fatigue: Machine Components
    Biomechanics -- Statics and Mechanics of Materials
    Mechanical Computation & Design -- FEA/CFD
    Bioengineering Measurements & Statistics -- Probability, Foundations of Statistics
    Fluids & Transports -- Fluid Mechanics, Intro to Heat Transfer
    Biomaterials -- Material Science (Polymers and General (Steel, Alloys, etc))
    
    Design of Bioinstrumentation -- Medical Device Development (Op-Amps, BioSignals)
    Regulatory Affairs: Medical Devices -- FDA Regulation Process, Product Prototyping
    Bioelectricity -- Schematic Designing, Impedance, Circuit and Signal Analysis Basics
    System, Signals & Control -- Digital Signal Processing, Fast Fourier Transforms)

    Quantitative Physiology -- Computation and Modeling of Physiological Systems
    Biomolecular Dynamics and Control - Computation of Time Evolving Kinetic and Thermodynamic Properties in Complex Systems
    Capstone I & II -- Cumulative Project for Senior Undergraduates
  • Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Bioengineering -- Electrical Focus
    Fundamentals of Electronic Design -- Operational-Amplifiers (Configurations, Models, Imperfections, Operations / Circuit Application) Diodes (Transfer Characteristics, Circuit Applications, Small Signal Model, Physics of Junction Diode, Rectifiers, Transformers), BJTs and MOSFETs (Characteristics, Combinatorial Operations, Graphical Analysis, DC and Small Signal Analysis, Biasing, Digital Logic Applications as a Switch), CMOS (Digital Logic Circuit Concepts, Basic Logic Inverter, Logic Gates)

    Fund. of Electromagnetics -- High Frequency Applications, Transmission Lines
    Electronic Design II-- ASIC Building Blocks, Deeper Analysis on Transistors (CMOS)
    Noise & Stochastics -- Filtering in Signal Processing, Probability: Bayesian Inference
    Embedded Design: Robotics -- Unix, C++, Digital Design, Wireless Networks, Simulink
    Linear Systems--Quantization of Waveforms, Discrete-Time Signals and Systems
    Programming with Data -- Algorithms and Data Structures for Python
    Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition -- Conceptual, Practical, Jacobian Matrices
    
Resume 2025
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  • Electrical Showcase Segment (Semiconductor Focus Version)
A Chronological Order of My Co-Op Internships
Pre-Graduation

Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Syntheses
Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Raynham, MA, United States


❖ Providing regulatory guidance to product development teams in defining regulatory strategies, pre-marketing to support efficient timelines

❖ Assisting in review of license and authorization submissions for maintenance of existing products, international registrations (not limited to 510(k) submissions) as well as during internal and external audits

❖ Guiding conformance with applicable regulations in product development, support of claims, content labeling and promotional material


Supervised by Mr. Mitchell Ohiwa,

Who has supported me throughout this internship.



RIVeR - Robotics & Intelligent Vehicles
Research Laboratory

Robotic Engineer

Boston, Massachusetts, United States



❖Contributing to integrating software, mechanical, and electrical components into working systems.

❖ Gaining experience with electronic equipment, software configuration control, Linux OS, Python-to-C++ conversion, FANUC operating

❖ Executing RPA with the Control Systems and Interaction Team, especially for robot dynamics and navigation testing techniques.

❖ Researching and deploying practice of impedance control for minimal latency in haptic feedback and designing electrical schematics in Altium

❖ Conducting analysis through mechanical engineering theories of failure, such as failure considerations, for various machine components.

❖ Experimenting with ROS’ Gazebo to test teleoperated robotic arms in various environments through simulations


Project Avatar is purposed for the 2022 XPrize Teleoperation Finals Testing. Northeastern University is one of the few remaining contestants. The purse prize is $8 million.


Supervisors are Taskin Padir (Founder, EECE Professor)

Mentored by Rui Luo & Chunpeng Wang (PhD, Control System & Interaction) and Colin Keil (PhD, Mechanisms).



Hunniwell Lake Ventures x SynCardia Systems LLC

Venture Capital Analyst & Medical Device Engineer

Palo Alto, California, United States



❖ Deal sourced and screened over 30+ Seed to Series C startups innovating in minimally-invasive colorectal and GI tract robotic surgery.

❖ Conducted 2-on-1 interviews with CEOs and Managing Partners, including executing due diligence on those shortlisted for investment.

❖ Curated the official Q3 2022 Pitch Deck, deriving metrics and providing technical background for 70cc/50cc Total Artificial Heart Drivers.

❖ Shadowed in regulatory compliance, protocol & test case development activities for Design Verification/510(k) testing with SynCardia's Systems Engineering Team.

❖ Researched innovative technologies (Surgical Robotics, Artificial Hearts, Artificial Intelligence, ML/DL) being developed in university research centers and multi-stage startups for biomedical applications.

❖ 3D CAD modeled pulmonary pump designs with HLV’s partner company (SynCardia) for preliminary systems designing in SolidWorks and open-source applications.

❖ Gained vast familiarity with the standard VC process and Medical Device Development timeline.


Specialized in researching the next cuttin-edge technology for Robot-Assisted Surgery in the GI Tract and Urology, alongside Artifical Heart Implants (LVAD, BiVAD, TAH).


Mentored by Managing Partner, Daniel Teo. Supervised by Product Originator, Frank Tinker.



DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Mechanical Process Engineer

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States


❖ Blueprinted 200+ detailed P&IDs, polishing over 7 years worth of unfinished pre-release projects, communicating via ECRs/ECOs.

❖ Inquired and procured material for product development from 100+ nationally renowned manufacturers through efficient pipelines.

❖ Systemized design trade-offs and cross-referenced modular dimensions to troubleshoot over 2k electromechanical assemblies.

❖ Datamined product-line data using Python and Excel for vendor management in collaboration with Top Fortune 100 companies.



Nuvera Fuel Cells LLC
R&D Engineer
Billerica, Massachusetts, United States

❖ Curated 80+ SolidWorks models with GD&T & BOMs and drove finite element analysis (FEA) reviews for stress-strain diagnosis.

❖ Accomplished thermal deformation reduction for Membrane Electrode Assembly sub-gasket sealings through reliability testing.

❖ Procured and experimented biomaterials on flow-field plates, optimizing hydrodynamic and durability performances by >200%.



Citizen Schools

Digital Marketing & Web Content Intern

Remote, United States


❖ Optimized digital marketing tasks, including website tracking analytics and search engine optimization (SEO).

❖ Streamlined the building of an end-to-end office automation tool within a Linux environment.



Harvard University

Neuroscience Research Assistant


@Samuel Labs

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States


❖ Mapped neural circuits and linkage to behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans & Drosophila larva, data munged with BioPython and LabVIEW.

❖ Co-authored a published Neuronal Discovery (Ionotropic) article on thermotaxis and chemosensation based on E. Coli incubated laboratory experiments.


Mentored by Luis Hernandez, Albert Lin, and Prof. Samuel.


Certification Visuals
Coming from a unique background with a broad span of interdisciplinary experiences, my journey as an undergraduate has been filled with the most memorable and eye-opening experiences I've ever had.

Unsure of where my passions will take me, I have always been open to venturing into the unknown. From career pathway choices to newly picked up hobbies, my time is constantly in a dynamic shape.

Hobbies
Acoustic & Electric Violinist, Video Editor, Inventor, Aspiring Programmer
Technical Developer, Research Analyst, Machinery Shopworker
(Milling, CNC, Lathes, Bandsaw, Miscellaneous Dremel Instruments),
Gamer, Rising Fintech x Healthcare Startup Visioner
  • Hiking in Tahoe, 2025! Love Outdoors :)
  • Venture Capital (PE/VC) Photoshoot, 2022
  • USFA™ National Anthem Performer, 2018
  • Combat Robotics, 2022 World Champions, Winning Robot!
  • DIY Humanoid Robot (Self Made), 2024 :D
  • My Johnson & Johnson Family, 2024 :)
Reccomendations
I strive to foster meaningful networking connections.
Nicolas was a valued member of the Engineering Team as an Engineering Intern at Dupont Water. He was diligent and attentive in his work. He responded well to the challenges of drafting and modelling of water and wastewater treatment projects that Dupont Water had sold. His attention to detail particularly when learning new skills was excellent. Nicolas integrated himself well into the team and was held to the same standards as other team members as a daily contributor to Dupont's success.
Bob Sacco
Engineering Manager - Memcor at Dupont Water Solutions
Nicolas worked on my thesis project during his time as a research assistant at Harvard. In this time, Nicolas carried out imaging experiments with a confocal microscope, and performed image analysis to process the data he generated. Nicolas was a valuable member of our lab--he was an eager learner and good team player, quick at picking up new skills and carrying out his work in a diligent and detail-oriented manner. He mastered his tasks and was able to teach these skills to other students.

Albert Lin
CPBF Fellow at Princeton University
I had the pleasure of having Nicolas as my intern during a summer for my company, Techykids. We hosted 3 summer camp weeks of teaching robotics, creativity and coding to kids, and Nicola was an incredible addition to the camps this summer.

He first went over the technical information on his own so that he would have the needed information to be able to help the students. He actively helped kids with their projects and code and was receptive to feedback to improve his approach to helping students so he was able to gain many skills.

He also helped in filming and editing tutorials and providing feedback on lessons. Nicola show much growth and enthusiasm over the course of his internship, and I was very impressed by his performance and helpfulness.

Nicolas also returned to volunteer with Techykids.com to the Menlo Park Library for science night to help with teaching even more kids how to program the robots and fuel their interest in STEAM.

I am very fortunate to have had the pleasure of Nicolas interning at TechyKids!
Sharon Marzouk, CEO of TechkyKids

Coming from a multicultural background of French, Vietnamese, Malaysian and Chinese, I have always been fascinated with the concept of interconnection. In college, I realized how relevant this theme resonated to my career.

My whole college experience has been filled with interdisciplinary exposure, shaping me into a versatile individual ... and I have loved every moment of it. From the software to the hardware to the business of product development and evaluations, the possibilities to gain new skills are endless. I won't stop now and I don't think I ever will. The yearn to learn is what makes the mind so powerful and I never want to regret not pouncing on opportunities. With a commitment to excel and wanting to contribute back to society, I'm always ready to venture into the unknown, where new doors always open.


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