Reza Rastak
Product Design Engineer - FEA at Apple
United States
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Top SchoolReza Rastak is a Product Design Engineer specializing in FEA at Apple with a PhD in Computational Mechanics and nine years of hands-on experience bridging academia and industry. He combines deep expertise in material characterization, failure analysis, and topology optimization with self-taught software skills in Python and C++, delivering automated large-scale FEA workflows and calibrated material models for flagship products like the M1 iPad Pro and iPad mini. At Stanford he developed a custom C++ FEA solver based on deal.II and contributed to that library’s documentation, reflecting a rare blend of research-grade modeling and practical engineering. Reza also rotates into full‑stack roles when needed, building data portals (Flask/React) to accelerate simulation-driven decision making. He is known for turning advanced academic methods into production-ready automation and mentoring teammates to scale simulation impact across product design.
9 years of coding experience
Master of Science (MS), Structural Engineering, 4.10, Master of Science (MS), Structural Engineering, 4.10 at Stanford Universityhighschool diploma, Math & physics, highschool diploma, Math & physics at tohid highschoolBachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering, 19.26 / 20.00, Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering, 19.26 / 20.00 at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English
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Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
documentation10
c-language10
finite-element-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dealii/dealii
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
The development repository for the deal.II finite element library
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 95 commits, 79 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Reza primarily contributed to the documentation of the deal.II finite element library. They fixed documentation errors, added mathematical explanations, improved cross-references, and corrected typos in various header files and documentation sections. This includes addressing issues related to the DerivativeForm, Arpack Solver, and other library components. The contributions also added documentation for using statements in the manual and improved documentation for ranged-for and the DiscreteTime class.
dealmultiphysicsc-plus-pluscomputational-sciencefinite-elements
rezarastak/CppConstitutive
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 58 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 1 month
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