# Aleksander Mateo Bobkov

ambobkov@outlook.com | 617-943-8575 | Dunstable, MA | linkedin.com/in/aleksander-bobkov

## Summary and Education

Self-directed mechanical engineering student with 3+ years of CAD/CAM and project management experience, taking an award-winning FRC robot from concept through fabrication. Now developing AI engineering platforms at Teradyne after wearable robotics research and product security work. Seeking product design and robotics roles that blend hands-on engineering with AI.

**University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA | Expected Graduation - 2028**

Mechanical Engineering major | Robotics minor | Honors student

Shah Academy Scholar for Leadership and Innovation | Machining Club Treasurer (12/2025 - Present)

## Experience

### Teradyne, AI Platform Engineering Intern North Reading, MA | 09/2026 - Expected 12/2026

- Received Teradyne's AI Innovation Challenge Coin for exceptional use of AI tools to improve productivity and drive impact.

- Architecting an agentic hardware-test platform for test-program creation and board-level fault diagnosis using schematics, skills, and MCP servers.

- Developing an AI-assisted bug replication platform for customer issue triage and remediation, designed to support 200+ engineers and identify hardware-dependent cases.

### Teradyne, Product Security Engineering Intern North Reading, MA | 05/2026 - 09/2026

- Co-developed an internal product security platform that saved Teradyne $3.5M; onboarded four divisions.

- Evaluated four SAST/SCA vendors through demos, trials, and proof-of-concepts; coordinated NDAs and wrote a selection proposal.

- Authored customer-facing security guidance on IEC 62443-4-2 and the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

- Became the first intern to co-lead Teradyne's summer software engineering outing with a 20-person team for 100+ attendees.

### UMass Lowell NERVE Center, Wearable Robotics Research Assistant Lowell, MA | 10/2025 - 05/2026

- Collaborated with Ph.D. researchers on wearable robotics and military assistive devices; supported participant trials.

### FIRST, FRC High School Robotics Team Mentor 09/2025 - Present

- Mentor high school students on two FRC teams through the design and programming of semi-autonomous competition robots, guiding teamwork, project planning, and hands-on problem solving.

### BAE Systems FOCUS Program, Student Mentor 2023 - 2024

- Guided a high school robotics group through an 11-week engineering program using question-led instruction.

## Projects

### FIRST Robotics Competition Team 1277, Robot Design and CNC Manufacturing 2022 - 2025

- Designed the entire 2024 FRC robot in Fusion 360, helping win the Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors.

- Programmed a CNC machine that had sat idle for three years, enabling the team's first in-house machining of aluminum, polycarbonate, and wood parts.

- Self-taught CAD/CAM/CNC, created training materials, and taught classes so teammates could design and machine parts.

## Skills

- **Core Skills:** Rapid prototyping | Project management | CAD/CAM | CNC machining | Laser cutting | SAST/SCA | vendor evaluation

- **Familiar Software:** Fusion 360 | SolidWorks | Onshape | C | GitHub | Django | React | PostgreSQL | Docker | Kubernetes

- **AI Tools and Languages:** Claude Code | GitHub Copilot CLI | MCP servers | English (fluent) | Spanish (advanced)

- **Hobbies and Interests:** Tennis | Pickleball | Mountain Biking | Photography | Piano | Guitar