Resume - Akileash Saravanan

Education

BSc in Electrical Engineering (Co-op) Sep 2025 - Apr 2030

University of Alberta Edmonton, AB

Experience

Project Coordinator Co-op May 2026 - Aug 2026

Aecon Group Inc., BHP Jansen Site Jansen, SK

Completed 1000+ drawing markups (piping, electrical, structural, civil) for PAU and non-PAU modules using Bluebeam Revu.
Verified dimensions and instruments on site and built an Excel issue tracker for field coordinators to log and clear construction discrepancies.
Reviewed and requested TQs and RFIs to update construction drawings, and supported QA/QC checksheets in Hexagon SmartPlant.

Electrical Team Member Sept 2026 - Present

Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project (ARVP) University of Alberta

Designing a drop-in 12V-to-7.4V buck converter to replace an out-of-stock module, comparing switching controllers and validating the circuit in LTspice for servo power on the AUV.
Designed and routed a 4-layer Altium PCB around a Teensy, adding CAN communication, a Hall-effect kill-switch, and an active low-pass filter for noise rejection.

Swim Instructor Jan 2024 - Apr 2026

William Lutsky YMCA Edmonton, AB

Instructed learners across various age groups in water safety and stroke refinement.
Mentored new swim instructors through shadow teaching and feedback on lesson delivery.

Technical Projects

SignBridge (ASL Translation Smart Glasses) Feb 2026

Built wearable real-time ASL-to-speech glasses at HackED 2026 (48-hour team hackathon) with a 3D-printed frame, camera, Raspberry Pi, MediaPipe hand tracking, and a TensorFlow classifier.
Designed the first-iteration frame for 3D printing and trained the model on fingerspelled letters and full-word signs, normalizing hand coordinates for varying distances and camera angles and smoothing output for stable speech.

AkiPad V1 (Custom Macropad) Feb 2026 - Apr 2026

Built a compact engineering/productivity macropad with 6 custom keys, dual rotary encoders, a 0.91" OLED display, and RGB NeoPixel lighting.
Designed the PCB in KiCad and the enclosure in Fusion 360, then wrote KMK firmware and fabricated the board through Hack Club Blueprint.

CentreMass (Self-Balancing Robot) Sept 2026 - Present

Developing a self-balancing robot on a Raspberry Pi 5, using Python to read an MPU6050 IMU and drive an L298N motor driver, and working on PID control to stabilize it.
Modeled the chassis in Onshape and designed the power system, using a buck converter to step the LiPo battery down to 12V for the motor driver.

Sylla Sync (Workload Automation) Sept 2026 - Present

Developed a Python tool that extracts assignments and due dates from Canvas and syllabus PDFs across 6 courses and displays them in a single dashboard.
Built an LLM-powered extractor to read syllabi with inconsistent formats and sync deadlines to Google Calendar and Google Sheets, as well as a daily digest to Discord.

Skills

Industrial / Tools: Bluebeam Revu, Aconex, Excel, Document Management, P&ID, Redline Markup, MS Office
Design & Embedded Systems: KiCad, Altium, LTspice, Fusion 360, Onshape, Raspberry Pi, LiPo power systems, motor control (H-bridge drivers), I2C, CAN Bus, 3D Printing, Soldering
Software & ML: Python, PyTorch, OpenCV, Computer Vision, Google APIs, Git, GitHub

Certifications

Oracle Aconex Complete Aug 2026

Oracle - Specialist, Professional, and Associate

CSTS 2020 Apr 2026

Alberta Construction Safety Association

AB-518 Pressure Piping Construction Apr 2026

ABSA, the Pressure Equipment Safety Authority

DELF B1 May 2025