A propulsion engineer who learned to run a technology organisation without ever stopping being a propulsion engineer. Still sizing the injector, still writing the control software, still at the test stand. What came with that is the ability to say, with evidence, which claims a programme can defend and which it cannot yet — and to put that distinction in front of a board, an investor or a regulator without flinching. India is going to need reusable launch capability that is genuinely indigenous. I intend to be one of the people who build it.
Four things that describe the engineer more accurately than a job title does.
Still writing the control software, still sizing the injector, still at the test stand. The engineering process here was written by someone who has to work inside it.
Injector, chamber, ignition — and the instrumentation and control chain that measures all three. Few propulsion engineers work across the sensing side as well as the hardware.
The same person who derives the performance identity writes the ten-year model. That combination is rare, and it is exactly what a deep-technology board needs.
A standing rule across these programmes: every claim carries an evidence class, and an inferred value is measured before anyone treats it as fact.
Six bodies of work, led or built here. Filter by the capability you care about.
A pintle meters both propellants with one moving element, which is what makes an engine deep-throttleable and restartable — the two properties a reusable booster cannot do without. Abyom's first pintle was designed here, taken through cold flow and spray characterisation to hot fire, and is now the injector architecture for the whole engine family.
Every number an engine programme produces comes through its control and acquisition system, so that system decides whether the results can be trusted. This one was built from nothing: a headless acquisition core, operator screens for sequencing and monitoring, read-only observer access, live computed performance channels, and a report generated automatically at the end of every test.
The proof-of-concept engine for the reusable roadmap: fully cryogenic methane and oxygen, pintle-injected, torch-ignited, regeneratively cooled, throttleable, and designed to restart in flight. Design point, sizing and cooling architecture set here, with a generated design workbook and a theory manual so every number carries its derivation, validity range and error band.
Reusability means relighting. The torch igniter runs on the same propellants as the engine and has to deliver a stable light repeatedly, on command, with the control chain defaulting to safe on any failure. Two competing architectures were designed in full and taken to a head-to-head down-select.
The engines exist to fly something. Concept of operations and system requirements baselined for the low-altitude hop demonstrator, with the systems engineering management plan, master schedule, work breakdown and responsibility assignment behind them, plus guidance-navigation-control architecture studies and an autonomous landing-legs concept.
A deep-tech raise is won or lost on whether the technical story and the financial story are the same story. Built the ten-year model, the scenario and valuation analysis, the due-diligence assessment and the investor answer set for an active $3M round, in both INR and USD — after helping close a ₹6 crore pre-seed.
A liquid rocket engine, in section. Select a part to see what went into it. Architecture only — no programme figures.
One moving element meters both propellants. This is what makes an engine deeply throttleable and restartable. It is the piece designed here.
Runs on the same propellants as the engine so it can relight in flight, repeatedly, on command — the requirement reusability actually turns on.
Fuel is routed through the chamber wall before it is burned: the propellant cools the engine on its way in. Additively manufactured, bi-metallic.
The throat chokes the flow and the bell turns pressure into thrust. Sized against the mission the vehicle has to fly, not against the number that looks best on a datasheet.
Sequencing, interlocks, aborts and every channel of data the programme is judged on. Hardware and software, built in-house.
Engines first, hands on, before anything else.
Engine overhaul, rig test and inspection — GE90, GEnx-1B, PW4056, CFM56.
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, Hyderabad. Undergraduate research on supersonic dual-jet mixing.
Team Lead on Airbus and Boeing certification design projects; established the AS9100 Rev D quality route.
R&D specialist on two certified engagements — Searcher MkII UAV aerodynamics, and rotor blade tip performance.
Designed India's first privately developed pintle injection mechanism.
Took charge of programme management and resource allocation across engine development.
Now leading engine R&D, avionics and control, systems engineering, quality and the technical investment case.
Proof-of-concept engine phase closed out. Cryogenic engine and throttling programmes now in build.
The formal record.
Propulsion, test infrastructure, engine control and instrumentation, or the technical case behind a deep-technology raise — happy to talk.