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Ayan Ospan
[email protected] · linkedin.com/in/ayan-ospan · github.com/marstankeldim
Education
The Pennsylvania State University
Aug 2024 — Dec 2027
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Minor in Engineering Entrepreneurship
GPA 3.36 / 4.00
Charles University, Prague
Jul — Aug 2025
Certificate — Philosophy, Politics & Economics (TFAS program)
Summer study abroad with The Fund for American Studies — political economy and cross-cultural study
Experience
Engineer Intern — Wabtec Corporation
Jun 2026 — Aug 2026
- Performed wire routing for the ES44ACi auxiliary cabin's electronic controls in Siemens NX, localizing the US hardware design to Kazakhstani specifications alongside electrical integration and controls engineers
- Identified and filed an approved Product Change Request correcting 3 erroneous helper's-console harness callouts in official design documentation — catching an error that would have caused incorrect assembly on production units
- Authored from-scratch assembly instructions for the first ES44ACi auxiliary cabin localization at LKZ, coordinating across technicians, sourcing, mechanical, and electrical integration engineers
Product Engineering Intern — SYNK
May 2026
- Developed and tested frontend and backend components for core platform features
- Ran user-feedback analysis and feature validation loops with the founding team
- Contributed to a 40% reduction in feature iteration time through structured development and feedback workflows
Founder — Chronos
Nov 2025 — Present
- Architected and shipped the full platform: constraint-based AI scheduling engine, React/TypeScript frontend, Supabase backend, Cloudflare Pages/Workers deployment
- Grew to 100+ signed-up users; secured $2,000 in competitive funding after completing the Idea TestLab and MVP DevLab accelerator programs
- Conducted 30+ customer discovery interviews; 74% of students surveyed reported significant planning-related stress
Undergraduate Research Assistant — CASA-Goes Lab, Penn State
Jun 2025 — Present
- Implemented and tuned PID control for closed-loop trajectory tracking; integrated odometry, IMU, and camera streams via sensor fusion for real-time state estimation
- Designed and executed 100+ controlled experiments validating accuracy and stability under simulated sensor noise — improving trajectory stability by 28% through iterative refinement
- Operated a multi-process ROS node graph on Linux, managing real-time publisher/subscriber timing
Research
- Ontology-Grounded Test Adequacy (CETA). Formal framework for cyber test adequacy over an OWL 2 knowledge graph — independently authored and presented at the ITEA Cybersecurity T&E Workshop 2026, Keyport, WA, Sept. 2026.
Selected Projects
- DKVS. Replicated key-value store in C++20 — original Raft implementation, CRC-checked WAL, automatic failover, linearizable reads.
- EvalForge. LLM benchmarking platform — 7 providers, pluggable judges, bootstrap CIs and significance tests, REST API + dashboard.
- Real-Time Firmware. Bare-metal STM32 firmware in C — interrupt-driven GPIO, timers, UART/PWM, SWO telemetry, register-level debugging.
Skills
- Languages
- C/C++ (C++20), Python, TypeScript, Java, Verilog, MATLAB
- Systems
- Raft consensus, TCP/POSIX sockets, write-ahead logging, Linux, Docker, CMake, GDB
- Embedded & Robotics
- STM32 HAL, GPIO/UART/PWM, SWO debugging, ROS, PID control, sensor fusion
- Hardware
- Siemens NX (wire routing), analog circuit design, Multisim, oscilloscope/DMM
- Web & Cloud
- React, Next.js, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Supabase, Cloudflare Pages/Workers, GitHub Actions
Awards
Min Kim Scholarship Award (International Test and Evaluation Association, 2026) · Top 3 Nationally — Senior Challenge (World Robot Olympiad, Kazakhstan, 2023) · $2,000 Competitive Funding (Happy Valley LaunchBox, Penn State, 2025) · 1st Place — Regional Network Competition (FTC Kazakhstan, 2024)
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