Venkatesan Mahalingam
Principal Engineer (Mechanical Development) at American Honda Motor Company, Inc.
Dublin, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolVenkatesan Mahalingam is a Principal Engineer with 24 years in engineering services and nearly a decade focused on aero structures and commercial/business aircraft design, now leading mechanical development at American Honda Motor Company. He blends deep sheet-metal and exterior automotive component expertise with aerospace practices like AS9100, GD&T, and knowledge-based engineering to drive concept-to-production programs. Venkatesan has a strong track record in design automation, parameterization (e-catalog), cost planning and value engineering, often aligning project targets with long-term investment and lifecycle monitoring. He has led cross-functional, geographically distributed teams and managed vendor ecosystems across automotive and aerospace programs, delivering complex test rigs and cabin/structure developments. Notably, he transitioned from roles at Infosys and multiple engineering consultancies to manage cabin development for EV startup Canoo and projects for HondaJet, showing adaptability across industries and scales. Based in Dublin, Ohio, he combines hands-on CAD/KBE depth with program leadership and a pragmatic focus on manufacturability and cost outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (24)
sonic10
sdn10
switch10
binary-image10
virtual-network10
networking10
armv610
openflow10
cli10
hosts9
napalm9
daemons9
yang9
network-automation9
netbox8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
venkatmahalingam/sonic-buildimage
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:55 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
installablesonicbinary-imageimage-build
project-arlo/sonic-mgmt-framework
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
SONiC Management Framework
Contributions:294 commits, 31 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 5 months
sonicframework
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