Maiki Vlahinos
Staff Solutions Engineer @nTop
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WORK HISTORY
Staff Solutions Engineer @nTop
As a Staff Solutions Engineer, I own and retain $1.2M in customer ARR by providing technical leadership and customer-facing engineering support to strategic aerospace, defense, energy, and automotive accounts. Advise and lead design and analysis efforts on technically challenging products across various TRLs, design stages, and manufacturing readiness levels.• Performed design and analysis (CFD/CHT) of numerous additively manufactured heat exchangers, cold plates, and heat sinks throughout the aerospace, defense, automotive, and energy sectors.• Generated fully parametric heat exchanger designs and coupled with analysis for rapid design exploration.• Performed design optimization and lightweighting of leading-edge antenna arrays & supporting structures.• Performed structural topology optimization of a large optical aircraft housing assembly with numerous load cases, objectives, and constraints.• Lattice structural optimization and characterization for material and design replacement• Design optimization and lightweighting of several secondary and tertiary structures of aircraft components.• Developed and delivered advanced training materials, publications, and resources. A trusted mentor and technical resource for colleagues and industry professionals across multiple industry sectors. As able, I continued to present at technical conferences.
EDUCATION
Colorado State University
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Self Study Student of TRIZ
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving
SKILLS
ABOUT MAIKI VLAHINOS
Mission: Enable the design, validation, and production of high-performance advanced thermal and structural hardware by applying deep expertise in multi-physics simulation (CFD/CHT), computational design, and manufacturing-ready engineering.I work closely with customers as a trusted technical partner, translating complex requirements into validated solutions that deliver tangible results across diverse applications and maturity levels.I am a mechanical engineer with 15 years of industry experience and four summers of intern experience in Conjugate Heat Transfer, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Design Optimization, Solid & Computational Modeling. • Lead design validation by building, executing, and assessing coupled models to perform multi-physics simulations, including CFD, CHT, thermal, mechanical, magneto-static, vibration & fatigue analyses. Proficient in utilizing CAE tools such as Ansys Workbench, Discovery, & Spaceclaim.• Expert in computational design using nTop to generate fully parameterized geometries to explore vast design spaces and perform topology optimization, FEA, thermal analysis, CFD, and lattice homogenization. • Rapidly integrate new CAD, CAE, and CFD tools into existing workflows to accelerate design exploration and reduce iteration cycles to develop production-ready hardware.• Drive platform, new product integration (NPI), and production phases by bridging design, analysis, and manufacturing constraints across multiple design iterations.• Provide cross-functional technical leadership & training. Effectively communicating complex analyses to design, engineering, manufacturing, and customer stakeholders; a great team player. Trusted mentor and technical resource for colleagues and industry professionals.• Develop high-quality solid models utilizing CAD tools such as PTC Creo to perform tolerance analysis, computations, mechanism synthesis & simulation.I began to explore advanced heat exchangers and Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces (TPMS) lattices for thermal management in early 2017. That same year, I presented my work at the 33rd International CAE Conference in Vicenza Italy and again at the MOST-AM Consortium in Pittsburgh, PA. Through that effort & research, I helped to pioneer the use of TPMS lattice structures for thermal management applications as we know them today.
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