Tara Soudbakhsh

About Tara Soudbakhsh

I\'m a completely different person on stage\" is in the wrong order.\"The stage turns me into a completely different person\" From singing on stage for 10 years, flying to Japan to take care of orphans, designing latrines for villages in Bolivia, to starting a company, each of these stages roused a different me, a stronger me, a more passionate and confident me. My dreams are like an ascending music scale: the higher the note, the harder to sing. I dream about revisiting Japan to see those children grown and smiling, volunteering in areas that need an extra pair of hands, creating technologies that will one day cure the plagues that have ailed our communities for the longest time. As a senior at the University of California, Davis, together with the communities of Society of Women Engineers, Women Machinist\'s Club, Engineers Without Borders, and Muslim Student Association, I plan to continute to advocate for inclusivity and diversity and women empowerment in STEM. This includes hosting the first student-led Arduino Acclimate Competition at UC Davis, leading the Society of Women Engineers as its Internal Vice President, and developing our face mask company, Nuventi Active Mask. As I am finishing up one song, another awaits. My dreams will continue and I will stand on stages, discovering more sides of me that I have yet to meet. If there isn\'t a stage set, then I\'ll just have to build one:)

Experience

1. Mechanical Engineer

   GILLIG

   May 2025 — Present · Livermore, CA, US

   Leads the end-to-end development of the seat to chassis integration strategy for new products. • Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with FMVSS210 testing requirements. • Utilizes NX and Simsolid software for design and analysis, enhancing product performance and reliability.

Education

• University of California, Davis

  Bachelor of Science - BS

  2017 — 2021