Jahan Khan

Independent applicant portfolio · Manifold Industries

Forward Deployed
Engineer

Software that makes complex operations understandable and gives the people responsible a better way to act.

Deployed planning tools, production workflows, and engineering decision-support software. My work starts with specialists’ operating knowledge and continues through implementation, validation, and the changes that emerge when people use the system.

Why I want to grow with Manifold Industries

I want to grow my engineering career at Manifold Industries, building decision-support software alongside the operators and action officers responsible for consequential decisions. I want to understand their work well enough to build tools they rely on, and keep developing the technical depth that work demands. That curiosity already extends beyond my contracts into independent engineering projects.

My public LinkedIn is unavailable during a current contract. I’ve curated this engineering portfolio to share my experience, project details, and résumé.

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U.S. citizen · Irvine, California
Available for full-time work, relocation, and travel.

Selected engineering work

From operating knowledge
to working software.

O3 World Wide · 03/2026 - Present

Shipyard Operations Software

Software Engineer / Project Lead (contract)

Make the consequences of a disrupted plan visible.

Designed, built, and deployed shipyard-planning software connecting installation tasks, parts, personnel, and shared equipment in a PostgreSQL ontology, with Rust and Python/FastAPI services and a React/TypeScript operator interface.

ImplementationReact, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, Rust, PostgreSQL, Docker, OR-Tools

Operational result
Planners can trace downstream disruptions and evaluate alternatives. O3 and defense partners have begun using the work as a framework for planning upcoming shipyards and distributed shipbuilding.
Connection to forward deployed engineering
Customer discovery, full-stack delivery, and operational feedback.
Implementation, validation, and delivery
Implementation
Translated installation sequences and resource constraints into executable scheduling logic using OR-Tools CP-SAT; integrated operational-data and OPC-UA adapters, role-based access, event history, and reviewable audit records.
Validation & handoff
When planners requested late-part and equipment delays in their plans, extended the dependency model and scheduler; replayed historical schedule delays to validate revised behavior before release.

Ibrium Studios · 09/2025 - 05/2026

Production Workflows & Robotic Controls

Embedded Systems Engineer | Disney contract

Turn production intent into systems a crew can operate.

Worked directly with production stakeholders to turn creative requirements into a multi-axis robotic control system; owned custom electronics, ARM Cortex-M firmware, CAN-connected actuators, and physical-to-digital registration through validation and crew training.

ImplementationAWS, workflow automation, C, ARM Cortex-M, CAN, Unreal Engine

Operational result
Delivered integrated controls and a crew handoff under production constraints, alongside resource-management safeguards designed to reduce unnecessary spending without interrupting active work.
Connection to forward deployed engineering
Ambiguous requirements, cross-layer debugging, and nontechnical-user delivery.
Implementation, validation, and delivery
Implementation
Built AWS-backed production asset and cost-management workflows; revised automated cleanup and idle-resource shutdown around ownership and active-session checks to protect concurrent animation work, testing active and inactive scenarios before deployment.
Validation & handoff
Used logic-analyzer traces to isolate a control-loop deadline overrun, moved scheduling to a fixed-rate timer interrupt, and revalidated the motion sequence. Documented operating procedures and trained nontechnical production users under a fixed deadline.

MedBWS · 05/2020 - 06/2023

Pharmaceutical Workflow Software

Automation Lead

Build the application and the operational safeguards around it.

Built and supported a computer-vision and Swift iOS workflow for pharmaceutical identification and disposal, deployed across hospitals in a HIPAA-compliant environment.

ImplementationSwift, Java, SQL, computer vision, secure APIs, authentication, authorization

Operational result
Production-used software with protected data, access controls, and traceable records supporting sensitive operational work.
Connection to forward deployed engineering
Organizational deployment, data integration, and sustained application support.
Implementation, validation, and delivery
Implementation
Translated operational requirements into Java application logic, SQL validation, authorization controls, protected data handling, and audit logging; surfaced conflicting information for review.
Validation & handoff
Connected facilities, drivers, and pickup windows with route-cost prediction and constrained planning to support operational scheduling.

O3 World Wide · 02/2026 - Present

AEROS: AI-Assisted Aircraft Design Tool

Software Engineer / Project Lead (contract)

Help specialists investigate tradeoffs without obscuring the evidence.

Worked alongside aerospace engineers to translate coupled blended-wing-body design requirements into a repeatable Python workflow connecting geometry, aerodynamic and structural solvers, and flutter assessment for payload-specific tradeoffs.

ImplementationPython, NumPy, SciPy, OpenVSP, CalculiX, AI-assisted workflows

Operational result
A repeatable way to compare coupled design alternatives, preserving the evidence and uncertainty needed for engineering judgment.
Connection to forward deployed engineering
Domain learning, automated exploration, and accountable human judgment.
Implementation, validation, and delivery
Implementation
Screened hundreds of variants, advanced three finalists to higher-fidelity analysis, and identified a trade-study design with approximately 24% lower structural mass than baseline.
Validation & handoff
Built an event-backed validation chain across analysis handoffs, retained solver artifacts, checked outputs against published references, and flagged uncertain results for specialist review.

Additional engineering depth

Interfaces, evidence,
and reproducible behavior.

Saddleback Robotics · 06/2021–06/2023

Co-Software Lead

Co-led a ROS 2 rover stack through field trials. Built React/TypeScript and Foxglove interfaces for telemetry and waypoint commands, and connected navigation to STM32 motor hardware through an asynchronous Rust driver.

Gazebo, Isaac Sim, recorded-run replay, and Docker supported regression testing without requiring the vehicle for every software change.

React · TypeScript · Rust · C++ · Python · ROS 2 · Docker

Independent · 03/2026–present

Electronic-Warfare Decision Testbed

A simulation-and-replay pipeline processes synthetic and recorded signal data, compares constrained response plans, and preserves the evidence behind recommendations. Explicit mission state and confidence-based abstention make uncertain outputs inspectable.

Haskell · Python · Constraint evaluation · Nix · Replay testing

Tata · 12/2025–02/2026

Field Research & Development

Conducted Apple AR/LiDAR research across field sites, configuring sensors, validating captures, and developing C software and repeatable collection protocols throughout a travel-based engagement.

Why Manifold Industries

Better tools.
Accountable human judgment.

I want to build technology that strengthens the United States. The focus at Manifold Industries on helping people reason through consequential decisions speaks directly to why I build planning and engineering tools: make dependencies visible, compare alternatives, and give the person responsible evidence they can question.

Delivered to nontechnical customers under real constraints

At Ibrium, producers brought creative intent and production constraints, not a finished software specification. I translated those needs into integrated robotic controls, resolved timing faults, and delivered procedures and training that let a nontechnical crew operate the system under a fixed deadline.

Read the production delivery example

Experience with defense-industry and operational stakeholders

For O3 and its defense-industry capital partners, I built shipyard-planning software around installation dependencies and shared resources. When planners needed late deliveries and unavailable equipment reflected in their schedules, I changed the model and validated the behavior against historical delays.

Read the shipyard planning example

Sound technical judgment

AEROS screens a broad set of designs before advancing three finalists to higher-fidelity analysis. Solver evidence and uncertainty checks keep candidate generation separate from engineering acceptance.

Clear communication with users

I translated production intent into control requirements, documented procedures, and trained nontechnical crews to operate the integrated system.

Action under ambiguous requirements

Planners supplied operating knowledge rather than a software specification. I turned dependencies into an ontology, services, scheduling logic, and an interface, then adapted the implementation to their feedback.

Focus on the consequential problem

For concurrent animation work, resource cleanup was also an ownership problem. Active-session and ownership checks addressed the risk of interrupting work rather than treating cost reduction as a timer alone.

Curiosity applied to delivery

Working alongside aerospace specialists required learning how aerodynamic loads, structural mass, and flutter interact, then connecting those disciplines in executable Python software.

Code ownership and debugging

I traced a timing fault with a logic analyzer, isolated its scheduling cause, changed the implementation, and revalidated motion. My work includes Rust services, embedded firmware, and reproducible validation tools.

Production software used by others

MedBWS work spans May 2020 through June 2023 and includes an application deployed across hospitals. O3 and Ibrium add customer-facing development, integration, and user handoff.

TypeScript, React, and Python

The shipyard application connects a React/TypeScript frontend with Python/FastAPI services, PostgreSQL data, Rust components, and Docker deployment.

Independent engineering work

My ongoing electronic-warfare testbed explores constrained decision support through synthetic signals, replay, explicit mission state, and adversarial scenarios.

Citizenship and availability

U.S. citizen with Computer Engineering coursework and customer-facing software experience. Available for relocation and travel to work alongside users.

Contact

Jahan Khan

jahanzebkhan214@gmail.com(949) 872-0649Download résumé
Computer Engineering coursework

Irvine Valley College

C++ · Computer Organization and Assembly · Python · MATLAB
Calculus · Linear Algebra · Differential Equations

CodeSignal ICA · 600/600

August 2026

U.S. citizen

Available for relocation and customer-site travel.

Code samples and letters of recommendation available upon request, subject to client confidentiality.