Amrutha Valli Rachakonda

Product Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States8 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in thermal systems design and simulation.
  • Proven ability in designing thermal control systems.
  • Three years of industrial experience in thermal engineering.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Thermal Engineer specializing in high power electronics cooling and thermal systems design.

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Skills

Core Skills

Thermal Management Of ElectronicsProject ManagementMechanical EngineeringAerospace Engineering

Other Skills

Thermal AnalysisThermal SimulationLiquid CoolingData AnalysisAnsys IcepakExperimental TestingThermal DesignCFD SimulationControl Strategy Development3D PrintingMechanical DesignSolidWorksAircraft InspectionProject PlanningBudgeting

About

-Highly analytical, performance-driven Mechanical Engineer with expertise in high power electronics cooling, thermal systems design and simulation. -Expert in simulating the heat transfer and fluid flow distribution for the Electro-Mechanical components using Ansys Icepack, Ansys Fluent, Solidworks Flow Analysis,FloTHERM classic/XT CFD Simulation softwares. -Experience in setting up and running thermal tests. -Proven ability in designing the entire thermal control systems for systems dissipating heat as high as 30 W/cm2 and ran thermal hardware tests and simulations as well as developed thermal packaging systems. -Expertise in designing and optimizing heat sinks based on simulation and test data. -Experience in working with liquid cooling both with simulations and experiments. -three years of industrial experience in the Design, Analysis, Testing, Project management and quality control domain. 3D Modelling | Certified ANSYS | Design & Analysis | Thermal Management of electronics |Electronic packaging | Direct Liquid cooling of Data centers | Product Development | Project Management | -More than a year research Experience with the center of Energy-Smart Electronic systems-ES2 and National Science Foundation-NSF -Passionate about Mechanical & Thermal Engineering

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Thermal Engineer

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · United States · Hybrid

Intel corporation

Thermal Engineer

Dec 2021Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Portland, Oregon, United States

  • Working as a Thermal mechanical engineer within Intel’s Data center & Artificial Intelligence team. Responsibilities include helping drive changes and adoption of advanced cooling methods that increased performance and efficacy while maintaining high reliability. Doing this requires working closely with several different groups. Conducted first order analysis and thermal simulation to propose new ideas and pathways to team members. Initiated and designed tests to correlate lab data with simulations and presented the findings enabling the liquid cooling industry. Projects include validating a supercomputer, a first in the world high performance computer. Alongside working on Risk assessment for processors, by simulating testing & analyzing Thermals
Thermal AnalysisThermal SimulationLiquid CoolingProject ManagementData AnalysisThermal Management of electronics

Microsoft

Thermal Test Engineer

Jun 2021Dec 2021 · 6 mos · California, United States

Electronic cooling solutions, inc.

2 roles

Thermal Test Engineer

May 2021Dec 2021 · 7 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Thermal Test Engineer

Aug 2020May 2021 · 9 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

  • Thermal Analysis of Packages, PCIE cards , Servers till chassis level
  • Client - Xilinx
  • Member in developing and Thermally analyzing PCIE cards using Ansys Icepak
  • Proficient with elevated and below ambient temperature testing.
  • Suggested peer design modifications for better liquid and air flows for better efficiency and life.
  • Immersion cooling Testing on a Server
  • client - Microsoft
  • Carried out an experimental study on comparison between air and single-phase liquid immersion cooling, to procure server failing limits by server load testing.
  • Built an air cooling and immersion cooling test set-ups for experimentation.
  • Developed an innovative liquid cooled Loop for low power consumption and high cooling efficiency embedding both liquid-air and liquid-liquid heat exchanger making it compatible for any working condition.
Thermal AnalysisLiquid CoolingAnsys IcepakThermal Management of electronics

The university of texas at arlington

3 roles

Research Volunteer

Promoted

Jan 2020Aug 2020 · 7 mos

  • working on Liquid cooling of Data Centers, Novel approaches to optimize the cooling solutions, reducing the power consumption.
  • Developed a next generation heat sink/cold plate using dynamic cooling approach to provide cooling rate of about 4 times higher and way more efficiency in performance than latest single-phase liquid cooling technologies for high heat density electronic cooling application.
  • Investigated feasibility of Phase Change Materials (PCM) as a thermal solution and conducted testing to evaluate performance.
  • Design Modifications and up-gradations for passively operated Flow-control device developed with Phase change materials.
  • Build and validate flow bench test setups for experiments, calibrate thermocouples, & pressure
  • transducers.
  • Working with multi-national telecommunication and network infrastructure provider companies,
  • National Science foundation (NSF), Industry–University Cooperative Research Centers Program
  • (IUCRC) funded projects.
  • Thermal design, CFD simulation & analysis for effective cooling solution of IT equipment
  • enclosures varying from server chassis, rack cabinets for edge data centers for Facebook,Qualcomm
  • & Commscope.
  • Comparative study on air to liquid cooling for 300W TDP microprocessor , used Mechanical
  • concepts to design advanced liquid cooling cold plate (CFD) .
  • Used various heat transfer materials, liquid metal, thermal pad, heatsinks for lowest operating
  • temperature
Liquid CoolingThermal DesignCFD SimulationThermal Management of electronics

Graduate Teaching Assistant(GTA)

Jan 2019Dec 2019 · 11 mos

  • Mentored 50+ students on how to learn effectively and tackle mechanics problems, reviewing each student’s experiment while providing 1:1 feedback on areas of improvement on a daily basis.
  • Providing constant feedback for course and material improvement to teachers by highlighting student progress.
  • Guiding team development efforts towards successful completion of laboratory experiments.
  • Senior Design Capstone Project :
  • Project Management of 13 competitive teams to deliver projects within the constraints of schedule, budget, and scope by providing technical mentor-ship and complete project life-cycle supervision.
  • conducted teaching sessions to address several design problems

Graduate Research Assistant

Apr 2018Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Developed and tested a Control strategy for direct liquid cooled Rack level data centers.
  • Saved 64% of pumping power with the proposed control strategy along with dynamic cooling concept
  • Integrated 6sigma ET with MATLAB for automation
  • Designed, developed ,Tested, analyzed, Prototyped using 3d printing and Characterized a passive Flow control device
  • Several design considerations and tests were made for optimized product Development

Uhv technologies, inc.

Mechanical Design Intern

Jun 2019Aug 2019 · 2 mos · United States

  • Developed an AI Metal Sorter, inspired by natural vision ,which performs with reliability and speed of a computer.
  • Used Solid works to design Frame, Material Handling devices, and Sheet metal skins,Pneumatic and optic systems,Electrical Boxes for the AI sorter that can sort 3 different metals from the industrial scrap and the commercial version has a capacity of 2000lbs/hr of scrap separation, working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and organizations ensuring OSHA regulations.
  • Resolve mechanical issues and concerns, provide mechanical support for engineering and manufacturing with onsite and offshore teams.
  • Helped in assembly, soldering and wiring, disassembly, re-assembly, fabrication, repair, and inspection of electronic, electrical, and mechanical systems
  • Responsible for part procurement, evaluation & logistics.
  • Generated BOM, considering cost, performance, and reliability.
Control Strategy Development3D PrintingThermal DesignThermal Management of electronics

Acumen aviation

Design Analyst

Jul 2017Dec 2017 · 5 mos · Banglore, India

  • Inspected Aircraft's, Aircraft parts, or avionics equipment for repairs, to administer regulations and safety standards pertaining to the airworthiness and maintenance of aircraft.
  • Worked on Data Segregation of Various aircraft files on client friendly software's 'SPARTA','AVALON' and 'DAE'.
  • Acquired proficiency over product designing and analyzing by using Solid Works to generate/modify product components and by transient structural analysis in Ansys Workbench to optimize the design.
Mechanical DesignSolidWorksMechanical Engineering

Turbo mega services & works

Mechanical Engineer

Jul 2016Jul 2017 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, India

  • Assisted senior Engineer on
  • Project Planning: Accomplished a project plan with 80% probability of success.
  • Involved in the market research analysis, in source/outsource analysis and quotations comparison.
  • Costing Execution: Carried out the phase-wise budgeting for the entire project.
  • Created Master Program Plan and Integrated Master Plan to track the project progress.
  • MIS Report making: Reported every detail of the project for a easy check of the progress and to make sure deadlines are met
  • Established terms and conditions for vendor agreement taking into consideration legal and market scenario.
  • Coordinated between various teams to ensure smooth execution of project.
  • Researched on the what-if scenarios and designed the necessary actions plans for the same.
  • Designed Mechanical levers & enclosures for Turbine Industry
Aircraft InspectionSolidWorksAerospace Engineering

Air india limited

Internship Trainee

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · New Delhi, India

  • Worked on 'V2500' & 'CFM56' engine maintenance, Repair and Overhaul.
Project PlanningBudgetingProject Management

Education

The University of Texas at Arlington

Master's degree — Mechanical Engineering

Jan 2018Jan 2020

Bhagwant University, Ajmer

Bachelor of Technology

Jan 2012Jan 2016

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