Summary
Ivan Mani is a mechanical engineer-turned-consultant with 11 years of hands-on experience across automotive, manufacturing, and product development. He brings practical expertise from roles at BMW and Canon, where he led root-cause analyses, developed injection-molding changeover systems saving significant downtime, and worked on high-voltage hybrid vehicle procedures. At Virginia Tech Motorsports he managed fuel, oil, and cooling system overhauls for a forced-induction race car, combining CAD, CFD, Matlab modeling, and real-world testing to validate designs. Now consulting at Faraday Software, he blends field-tested mechanical intuition with systems thinking to solve production and performance problems. Comfortable from the shop floor to cross-functional program coordination, he pairs a strong practical automotive background (including rebuilding an ICE personally) with formal engineering training from Virginia Tech.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Associate of science, Engineering, Associate of science, Engineering at Tidewater Community college
English, Russian