Sandesh Manik

About Sandesh Manik

Contact: h••••••••@gmail.comI\'m an interdisciplinary Hardware Engineer—my work is at the intersection of mechanical engineering, programming, electronics, physics, and product design. Built hardware at Google[x] across diverse moonshots. Stanford Design Engineering graduate. I thrive on hard, ambiguous problems with no playbooks—the kind you figure out by experimenting with prototypes, people, and first-principles thinking.Currently, I\'m building a foundational physical 3D modeling architecture that understands how things are built and behave in the real world, to make hardware design 100x faster.I also consult and advise on hardware and deep tech, share radical ideas about innovation, and coach people taking unconventional paths in tech.I\'ve been a maker since childhood, always curious about how things work—and that\'s still who I am. In my journey, I\'ve witnessed incredible innovation happen in both Silicon Valley\'s most advanced labs as well as scrappy makerspaces in India. The people I\'ve met everywhere have convinced me that innovativeness is innate in humans, but limited by the systems and tools around them. My work’s mission is about expanding who gets to innovate—building tools and sharing ideas that help more people dare to build things that solve real problems.Website: sandeshmanik.com

Experience

1. Founder

   Stealth Startup

   Jan 2026 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Supercharging Hardware Design: A foundational architecture for hardware 3D modeling software—that encodes design constraints of how things are built and behave in the real world.

Education

• Stanford University

  Master of Science - MS, Engineering, Product Design

  2020 — 2022

• Manipal Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechatronics Engineering

  2014 — 2018

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  1st to 12th Grade

  2001 — 2013

Skills

• Electronic Circuit Design
• Engineering Analysis
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Solidworks
• Adobe Photoshop
• Product Design
• Photography
• Rhino 3d
• Nurbs
• Image Processing
• Microsoft Office
• Java
• Arduino
• Product Development
• Circuit Simulators
• Power Electronics
• 3d Printing
• Rapid Prototyping
• Industrial Design
• C++
• Programmable Logic Controller (Plc)
• Pneumatics
• Programming
• Pcb Design
• Python
• Android Studio
• Battery Managment
• Computer Numerical Control (Cnc)
• Microcontrollers
• Frugal Designing
• Robotics
• Neural Networks
• Web Design
• Matlab
• Videography
• Computer-Aided Design (Cad)
• Adobe Illustrator
• Power Tools
• Simulink
• Sensors