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Ayan Ospan
ayan.ospan@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/ayan-ospan · github.com/marstankeldim
Education
The Pennsylvania State University
Aug 2024 — Dec 2027
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship
GPA 3.36 / 4.00
Charles University, Prague
Jul — Aug 2025
Certificate — Philosophy, Politics & Economics (TFAS program)
Summer study abroad with The Fund for American Studies — political economy and cross-cultural study
Experience
Engineer Intern — Wabtec Corporation
Jun 2026 — Aug 2026
- Performed wire routing for the ES44ACi auxiliary cabin's electronic controls in Siemens NX, localizing the US hardware design to Kazakhstani specifications and locally sourced components alongside electrical integration and controls engineers
- Identified and filed an approved Product Change Request correcting 3 erroneous helper's-console harness callouts in official design documentation — catching an error that would have caused incorrect assembly on production units
- Authored from-scratch assembly instructions for the first ES44ACi auxiliary cabin localization at LKZ, coordinating across technicians, sourcing, mechanical, and electrical integration engineers
Product Engineering Intern — SYNK
May 2026 — Present
- Developed and tested frontend and backend components for core platform features
- Ran user-feedback analysis and feature validation loops with the founding team
- Contributed to a 40% reduction in feature iteration time through structured development and feedback workflows
Founder — Chronos
Nov 2025 — Present
- Architected and shipped the full platform: constraint-based AI scheduling engine, React/TypeScript frontend, Supabase backend, Cloudflare Pages/Workers deployment
- Grew to 100+ active users; secured $2,000 in competitive funding after completing the Idea TestLab and MVP DevLab accelerator programs
- Conducted 30+ customer discovery interviews; 74% of students surveyed reported significant planning-related stress
Undergraduate Research Assistant — CASA-Goes Lab, Penn State
Jun 2025 — Present
- Implemented and tuned PID control for closed-loop trajectory tracking; integrated odometry, IMU, and camera streams via sensor fusion for real-time state estimation
- Designed and executed 100+ controlled experiments validating accuracy and stability under simulated sensor noise — improving trajectory stability by 28% through iterative refinement
- Operated a multi-process ROS node graph on Linux, managing real-time publisher/subscriber timing in a concurrent execution environment
Selected Projects
- DKVS. Replicated key-value store in C++20 — original Raft implementation, CRC-checked WAL, automatic failover, linearizable reads.
- EvalForge. LLM benchmarking platform — 7 providers, pluggable judges, bootstrap CIs and significance tests, REST API + dashboard.
- Real-Time Firmware. Bare-metal STM32 firmware in C — interrupt-driven GPIO, timers, UART/PWM, SWO telemetry, register-level debugging.
Skills
- Languages
- C/C++ (C++20), Python, TypeScript, Java, Verilog, MATLAB
- Systems
- Raft consensus, TCP/POSIX sockets, write-ahead logging, Linux, Docker, CMake, GDB
- Embedded & Robotics
- STM32 HAL, GPIO/UART/PWM, SWO debugging, ROS, PID control, sensor fusion
- Hardware
- Siemens NX (wire routing), analog circuit design, Multisim, oscilloscope/DMM
- Web & Cloud
- React, Next.js, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Supabase, Cloudflare Pages/Workers, GitHub Actions
Awards
Top 3 Nationally — Senior Challenge (World Robot Olympiad, Kazakhstan, 2023) · $2,000 Competitive Funding (Happy Valley LaunchBox, Penn State, 2025) · 1st Place — Regional Network Competition (FTC Kazakhstan, 2024) · Innovation in Engineering Award (First Global Challenge, 2024)
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