Rafi Hakim

Experience

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  Plato Learning LLC

  Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

  Summer Camp Counselor

  Moderated debate competitions, refereed soccer and volleyball, refereed sword fights, and helped kids build giant crossbows, slingshots, foam swords, paper airplanes and wooden shields.

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  UBC Rocket

  Sept 2021 - Sept 2023

  Led development of our thrust-vectoring hopper with the goal to take off, hover, follow a preprogrammed path, and land itself on one central motor. This project will compete in the Launch Canada Technology Development Challenge. Developed genetic evolutionary algorithms to tune fin dimensions of our two stage rocket, winning first place at Launch Canada 2023.Responsible for the avionics system during competition as well as for operating HAM radios for rocket telemetry and communications during recovery.Assisted the aerostructures team to do vacuum resin infusions for carbon fiber parts and 3D printing molds, and testing parts for performance under bending torsion, determining shear modulus, and more.

  • Project Manager, Software and Simulations Lead

    Aug 2022 - Sept 2023

  • Aerostructures and Simulations Team

    Sept 2021 - Aug 2022
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  Icertis

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Intern

  Intern for the CTO’s office. Developed ml algorithms to classify sensitive attributes in large datasets.