Manan Bhardwaj

Work

8 roles, newest first: from immersion cooling in Austin back to the validation benches in Dallas where this started.

History

Nov 2025 - Present

Control Engineer

Green Revolution Cooling · Full-time

Austin, Texas (Hybrid)

Control systems for data center immersion cooling, where servers sit in dielectric fluid instead of moving air.

  • Designing and iterating electrical and software control systems for immersion-based server cooling.

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025

Electrical Engineer

Applied Concepts (Stalker Radar) · Contract

Richardson, Texas (On-site)

Kept a commercial radar product running through cold weather by designing the power and heating path around its battery.

  • Designed and implemented a solar-powered battery heater using a PID control loop on an STM32 Nucleo board, holding LiFePO4 cell temperature in sub -30 °C conditions.
  • Developed and tested custom DC-DC buck control logic, MPPT tracking, and battery charging algorithms tuned for cold weather.
  • Wrote firmware in STM32CubeIDE and deployed it to embedded hardware inside a commercial radar product.
  • Ran GPS and 4G validation with tools like VisualGPS, and tuned antenna performance for radar-to-GPS synchronization.
  • Led solar chamber testing by building an artificial freeze environment to simulate low-light, low-temperature conditions.
  • Worked across design, firmware, test, and in-house manufacturing to iterate PCB layouts in Siemens PADS and KiCad and improve design-for-manufacturing readiness.
  • Wrote the technical documentation for internal manufacturing and outside production partners, and supported regression testing and post-market monitoring of deployed units.

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

Research and Development Engineer

Inogen · Contract

Plano, Texas (Hybrid)

Prototyped IoT and battery hardware for medical devices, and built the Python tooling that tested it.

  • Prototyped IoT devices in Python and C++, including an AQI measuring device and a TI BQ battery IC control device.
  • Wrote embedded firmware in C++ for STM-based systems and integrated it with custom hardware for end-to-end validation.
  • Validated motherboards on the bench with oscilloscopes, DMMs, and a range of power supplies, and used an automated test fixture to speed up debugging.
  • Built test scripts with Python, OS libraries, and Tera Term macros, and a Windows data-acquisition app in Tkinter, PyQt5, and MCCULW.
  • Designed a four-layer RF board for LTE communication in Altium Designer, and ran the hardware bring-up and debugging.
  • Automated document and workflow management with Python, and ran offline ML models for documentation and analysis.
  • Authored regulatory documentation for medical devices.

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Vehicle Software Test Engineer

Canoo · Full-time

Torrance, California (On-site)

Automated the thermal test bench for an EV programme so ECU scenarios ran without manual setup.

  • Designed a hardware-in-the-loop system to automate thermal test bench testing using relays, NI DAQ, CANoe, and ECU Test, covering every scenario without manual setup.
  • Built flexible test benches able to simulate complex ECU scenarios with automated switching logic.
  • Documented the HIL design method so the approach stayed consistent and debuggable across the team.
  • Worked with the firmware and thermal systems teams to widen test coverage and cut regression time.

Jun 2022 - Present

Founder and Tutor

Kaizen Tutors · Self-employed

Dallas-Fort Worth (Hybrid)

Built and ran a tutoring business end to end, including the site, the CRM, and the ad funnel.

  • Led a team providing in-home tutoring for AP subjects, SAT prep, math, English, science, and social studies.
  • Designed and integrated the website, including a chat system and contact form.
  • Ran the CRM, developed leads through Facebook and Google ads, and automated scheduling and payment.

Jul 2021 - Dec 2021

Validation Test Engineer

DENSO TEN America · Full-time

Dallas, Texas (On-site)

Validated automotive infotainment on the bench and in the vehicle, and automated the reporting around it.

  • Ran vehicle and bench testing for automotive infotainment systems, logging bugs in Jira and doing the root-cause analysis.
  • Flashed experimental firmware to main and sub microcontrollers for feature verification and debug.
  • Logged and analysed system data over CANoe, serial interfaces, and PuTTY for both software and hardware validation.
  • Retrofitted next-generation infotainment components into test vehicles for field evaluation.
  • Wrote Python scripts to automate ticket tracking and reporting, and coordinated Jira workflows across QA and engineering.
  • Stripped and rebuilt complex electronics for diagnosis, soldering components through the rework phases.

Earlier

Real roles, missing dates. They join the timeline above once the dates are pinned.

Lead Tutor

Alpha Math Station

Leader and Engineer

Engineering@Work, Shell Eco-Marathon

Led the electrical side of a student team building a competition vehicle.