Vishal Sontakke
Senior Software Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolVishal Sontakke is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in C++ development for Siemens NX CAD, with deep domain expertise in Sheet Metal, Flexible Printed Circuit Design, and Carbon Fiber Composites. He led and core-developed the Multi-Thickness project enabling 3D Rigid-Flex board design and ECAD–MCAD interaction, and continues to drive customer-facing enhancements for that capability. Regularly tackling legacy code, he champions performance optimization, dead-code removal, and pragmatic refactoring to boost engineering productivity. His background blends rigorous computational science and mathematics training from TUM and BITS Pilani with hands-on CAD and engineering experience, giving him a strong analytic edge. Comfortable in both project leadership and individual contributor roles, he pairs system-level thinking with low-level C++ craftsmanship. An appetite for physics-informed approaches subtly informs his design decisions, helping translate complex engineering constraints into robust software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computational Science and Engineering, 1.2, MSc, Computational Science and Engineering, 1.2 at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, 8.81, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, 8.81 at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (23)
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earthquake9
dynamics9
geodesy9
meta-tags9
diffraction9
complex9
equation9
scientific-machine-learning8
hpc8
differential-equations8
atmospheric-modelling8
ode8
metadata7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sonVishal/NewtonMethods.jl
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:321 pushes, 8 branches, 3 tags in 5 months
sonVishal/Reentry_Apollo_11
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
The Reentry problem for Apollo 11 type reentry vehicles.
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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