Mohammed Essa
Product Design Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammed Essa is a product design engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with five years of experience designing consumer and lab hardware, currently working on Google Pixel hardware. He specializes in CAD-driven product development, DFM/DFA for injection molded plastics and stainless components, and rapid prototyping for bio-reactors and consumer devices. At Culture Biosciences he led mechanical systems for a 250L pilot bioreactor, owning sampling, thermal, sparging and sealing subsystems, and at startups and student teams he repeatedly translated lab requirements into manufacturable enclosures and instruments. He co-founded a global product design education program that taught 110+ students and served as the resident Fusion 360 expert, showing a strong bias for teaching and scalable knowledge transfer. Mohammed also contributes to notable open-source tooling around Bazel (IntelliJ plugin and CI), applying DevOps and compatibility fixes that reflect an attention to long-term maintainability beyond hardware.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at University of Houston
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (15)
kotlin10
javas10
buildkit10
buildkite10
python10
bazel10
cicd10
java10
intellij-plugin10
build-tools9
ide9
githubaction-workflow7
google-cloud-storage7
bash7
github-ci7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/intellij
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
CLion plugin for Bazel projects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 498 reviews, 251 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mohammed primarily contributed to the IntelliJ plugin for Bazel projects, focusing on compatibility and feature enhancements. Their work included adapting the plugin to support new IntelliJ versions (CE and UE), introducing new product aliases for OSS releases, and adding compatibility wrappers to handle API changes. The user also addressed code style and API compatibility issues across multiple releases and added example projects demonstrating key features.
bazelclion-pluginidebuild-toolcpp
bazelbuild/continuous-integration
Oct 2020 - Aug 2022
Bazel's Continuous Integration Setup
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 17 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mohammed primarily contributed to the continuous integration setup for Bazel. Their work involved modifying the `bazelci.py` script to add features like Gerrit review link integration, metadata upload functionality, and support for soft-fail options in pipeline steps. They also made adjustments related to test paths and default branch configurations, demonstrating a focus on maintaining and improving the CI/CD pipeline.
bazelcontinuous-integrationbuildkite
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