Liam Carlin
Mechanical Engineer · Olin '26
REV · 2026.04.18
SHEET · 01 / 05
DRAWN · L.Z.CARLIN
SCALE · 1 : 1
N 42°27′12″
W 71°16′05″
§ 01   HERO / POSITIONING

Builder of real
mechanical
systems.

I design, build, and test hardware — from an 85-person Baja SAE car to a thrust‑vector‑controlled rocket. I work fluently between CAD, machine shop, controls, and code, and I care deeply about how the whole system comes together.

Selected works

§ 02 · Featured · entries

Experience & record

§ 03 · Full timeline · Expanded
§ 04 · Approach

Engineering is how
I think.

01Design systems from first principles, not templates.
02Prototype fast. Instrument everything. Iterate with data.
03Sweat the manufacturing. Tolerances, fasteners, fits.
04Write code where the mechanism needs it. Stay hands‑on.

I build because I want to understand how things actually work — not on paper, but in the shop, on the track, in the air. Most of my projects start with a question I can't answer from a textbook, and end with a part I had to make twice.

What I care about: mechanical systems that are honestly designed, instrumentation that tells the truth, and teams that can still move fast when a bracket cracks at 2 AM. I'm fluent across CAD, machining, controls, and firmware, and I use whichever tool the problem is asking for.

My strongest work sits at the seams — between mechanical and electrical, between driver feel and sensor data, between a clean CAD file and a part you can hold. That's where I want to keep working.

Project archive

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§ 07 · REACH OUT

Let's build
something.

© 2026 LIAM Z. CARLIN · ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HANDMADE · NO TEMPLATES · NO AI SLOP
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