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Mechanical Engineer · Founder · WPI

Aaryan Panchal

Mechanical engineer and medical-device founder. I work in the space between how things work and why they matter — designing hardware people can actually rely on.

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01 — Selected Work

Things I've built
that had to be real

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Founder & Engineering Lead · 2023–Present

EpiSafe

A wearable medical device for epilepsy monitoring and emergency response — built for the 65 million people worldwide who navigate seizure risk, often alone. I lead the engineering, the customer discovery, and the regulatory groundwork.

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Your strongest design build

Swap in a project that shows a different muscle — a CAD/FEA study, a fabrication challenge, or a course capstone. Lead with the problem, your role, and the measurable result.

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Research or leadership work

Something that shows systems thinking or initiative. No third project ready yet? Launch with two — on this site, quality always beats quantity.

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02 — About

I've always been more interested in the question behind the question.

When I started building EpiSafe, the obvious question was "how do we monitor seizures better?" The more interesting one was: "why do millions of people with epilepsy still feel like they're figuring this out alone?"

That second question is what I engineer toward. The first tells me what to build. The second tells me why it's worth building.

I'm studying Mechanical Engineering at WPI — stress, materials, thermodynamics. Outside class, I'm running customer-discovery interviews, reading FDA guidance, and trying to ship something people will actually rely on.

CurrentlyBuilding EpiSafe · ME @ WPI
Based inWorcester, Massachusetts
ReadingThe Innovator's Dilemma · FDA 510(k) guidance
Focused onMedical devices, engineering leadership, mission-driven teams
Ask me aboutWhy wearable biosensing is harder than it looks
Contactaaryanpanchal270@gmail.com

I'd rather build one thing people truly depend on than ten they merely notice.

— The whole point, basically

03 — How I Work

Principles I keep
coming back to

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Start with the person, not the product.

Every spec worth writing traces back to a real person with a real problem. I do the interviews before I do the CAD.

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Prototype to learn, not to impress.

A rough prototype that answers a question beats a polished one that only looks finished. I build to be proven wrong quickly.

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Earn trust before scale.

In medical devices, trust is the product. Get the safety, the evidence, and the honesty right — then grow.

What I bring
to the table

From first interview to working hardware — across the full product arc.

01 Medical Device Design Concept-to-prototype development of wearable hardware, with an eye on usability and patient safety.
02 Mechanical Engineering CAD, FEA, materials selection, and design-for-manufacture — the fundamentals, applied.
03 Customer Discovery Structured patient and stakeholder interviews that turn messy needs into clear requirements.
04 Regulatory Research Early FDA 510(k) pathway groundwork and risk thinking for class-II-style devices.
05 Startup Operations & Leadership Running a small team, setting direction, and keeping a venture moving with limited resources.

04 — Let's Talk

Building something hard?
Let's talk.

Whether you're a founder with a difficult problem, a researcher exploring medical devices, a recruiter, or someone who just wants to think out loud — my inbox is open.

aaryanpanchal270@gmail.com
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