Nilay Zaveri

Experience

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  DJS Racing

  Feb 2017 - Jun 2020

  • Led the marketing team and supervised all other non-technical work of DJSR for the year 2019-2020.• Acquired new sponsors and retained existing ones for the fifth combustion car (DJSR 05) and the in-development electric car.• Managed the public presence of the team. Led content creation for the team’s social media pages, and monthly newsletter.• Played key roles in Cost and Business Plan events in All India and International Competitions:• Prepared and presented the Cost event at Formula Student Germany 2019, for which the team was placed at 4th position.• Led the Business Plan Presentation event in Formula Bharat (FB) 2020, coming in 8th for the event, the best in team history.• Co-organised the unveiling event for the car DJSR 05. Show less • Designed the suspension system of the formula cars DJSR04 (combustion) and DJSRE01 (electric) using Solidworks and Ansys software.• Evaluated various manufacturing techniques and fabricated suspension components for both cars.• Tested and tuned the suspension system for optimizing lap time.• Introduced carbon fibre-aluminium suspension linkages to achieve weight reduction of 3 kilograms.• Prepared and presented the design event, business plan presentation event, and cost event at Formula Bharat 2019 at Kari Motor Speedway in Coimbatore.• Contributed to the team’s first ever international win at the cost event of Formula Student Austria 2018. Show less

  • Marketing Lead

    Mar 2019 - Jun 2020

  • Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

    Feb 2018 - Feb 2019

  • Public Relations Executive

    Feb 2018 - Feb 2019

  • Marketing Executive

    Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
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  DJ LIT - Literary Society, DJSCE

  Aug 2017 - Apr 2019

  • Organised multiple college and inter-college events, and hosted a few of them myself. • Brought multiple literary society events such as JAM, debates, quizzes to fruition.• Wrote content for the official website of the committee.

  • Head of Events

    May 2018 - Apr 2019

  • Committee Member

    Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
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  ECHAAR EQUIPMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED

  Dec 2017 - Dec 2017

  Engineering Intern

  Echaar Equipments is a traditional manufacturing company where I enrolled in a two week training programme. The programme introduced me to a wide variety of machinery and operations such as:• CnC milling, turning, grinding, and polishing machines and their operation procedure.• Welding methods, oxyacetylene and plasma cutting, sandblasting and painting, and sheet metal fabrication.• Quality management, measurement techniques, instruments and ISO standards.• Factory floor ethics, human resource management and process flow layout. Show less

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  Tesseract

  Jul 2019 - Dec 2019

  Production Engineer

  • Executed all production orders at the primary branch.• Remotely managed production planning across all the branches.• Implemented knowledge of various Additive Manufacturing techniques and material properties to manufacture functional products with given design constraints.• Investigated effect of infill pattern on part strength by performing compression tests of samples on a UTM machine. Drew inferences from data and incorporated them in production to make stronger parts.• Eliminated points of failure through periodic analysis of machine logs.• Trained new recruits to handle production and machine maintenance. Proactively created a training manual to expedite the initial training process.• Coordinated with clients and other businesses for production orders. Show less

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  GM MODULAR

  Mar 2021 - Mar 2022

  Design And Development Engineer

  • Realised concept designs for injection moulded products such as assisted ejection plug, pop-up USB charger, spike guard into workable products using Solidworks, many of which are currently in the market.• Spent a month on the factory floor to gain an understanding of injection moulding and its design constraints.• Overhauled the existing rapid prototyping system by introducing Simplify 3D, a new slicing software. Achieved noticeable reductions in failure rate, post processing requirements and print inconsistencies, enabling reliable 3D prints of complex working prototypes.• Created 3D models of various products for the render department to be used in product catalogues and manuals. Show less

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  Delft University of Technology

  Nov 2023 - Jul 2024

  Taught SOLIDWORKS to Industrial Design Bachelor's students

  • Student Assistant - Strategic Development, Delft Young Academy

    Dec 2023 - Jul 2024

  • Teaching Assistant - DP1 Course

    Nov 2023 - Jan 2024