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Hrushiekesh Reddy Kanjula
Hrushiekesh Kanjula

Hrushiekesh Kanjula

Process / Manufacturing Engineer · PCBA & Electronics · AI-Assisted Process Tools

H1B · open to transferOpen to relocation

// Summary

Manufacturing Engineer with four years in electronics manufacturing, three of them running Surface Mount Technology (SMT) process, Automated Optical Inspection (AOI), and flying-probe test across a full PCB assembly floor. Localizes internal shorts on multilayer boards by current injection and hotspot tracing, owns the via fill and planarization process along with the work instructions and operator training behind it, and holds 100% IPC-A-610 Class-2 compliance across all assembly operations. Scaled production throughput 20% through a department-wide Lean audit, cut rework 10% by standardizing electrical test protocols, and removed traceability errors across 20,500+ parts. Owns the Python and SQL tooling that turns machine output into floor decisions, augmented by AI-directed automation to reduce defects and improve throughput.

// Experience

Manufacturing Engineer — Lead Developer, SMT Automation

Apr 2023 – Present

Integrated Test Corporation · Dallas, TX

  • Set up and ran Seica Flying Probe ATE programs, pairing circuit-level troubleshooting with automated test logic to cut production delays across complex PCB assemblies.
  • Localized internal shorts on multilayer boards by injecting current through the failing net with a bench power supply and tracing the resulting hotspot to the fault site, then drove the correction through with the drill engineers.
  • Owned the via fill and planarization process on the bare-board side: authored the work instructions, trained the operators who run it, and audited the floor to confirm the process was followed as written.
  • Programmed AOI recipes and ran SMT programming on MyData pick-and-place equipment, owning component-library management and solder-paste process control across the line, and built reflow oven thermal profiles with the KIC profiler for both standard and low-temperature paste.
  • Owned and performed preventive maintenance across MyData pick-and-place, AOI, reflow, and Seica flying-probe equipment, wrote the supporting work instructions, and held operators to the schedule.
  • Maintained 100% IPC-A-610 Class-2 compliance across all assembly activity; authored ECOs, work instructions, and process-update documentation.
  • Led a company-wide Lean audit that removed three production redundancies and improved throughput by 20%.
  • Built the SMT Hub dashboard in Python + SQL to streamline MyData SMT workflows — 10% less rework, 5% lower labor cost.
  • Shipped Assembly Hub, an MES-style shop-floor system that carries a job from BOM import through placement programming, inspection, and test — used daily by four operator roles across 120+ PCB assembly jobs. Built by directing AI coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Google Antigravity), with the agent rules, implementation plans, and coordination infrastructure authored in-house.
  • Removed 100% of component-traceability errors across 20,500+ parts by integrating the Mouser REST API with rate limiting, retry logic, and configurable skip-rule gating across the full BOM pipeline.
  • Derived SMT placement (XY) coordinates, rotation, and board side directly from customer CAD design files (Protel and equivalents), removing the manual programming setup step on jobs that arrive without placement data.
  • Tuned the Seica Flying Probe test process to catch and resolve PCB leakage issues before they reached downstream assembly.

Electrical Systems Engineer — Contract

Nov 2022 – Mar 2023

BSU Incorporated · Austin, TX

  • Ran hardware validation and system integration for high-performance test environments, turning research requirements into workable circuit-design solutions.
  • Cleared component-integration bottlenecks that were limiting test-system reliability, refining troubleshooting protocols for accurate high-speed circuit testing.

// Skills — each backed by proof

SMT & PCBA Process

SMT programming (MyData) · component library · solder-paste & material control · KIC reflow profiling · via fill & planarization · CAD-derived placement (XY, rotation, board side) · end-to-end line management · prototype assembly · preventive maintenance Assembly Hub

Test, Inspection & Quality

Seica Flying Probe test & programming · calibration · AOI & AOI programming · in-circuit / functional test · EPROM programming · IPC-A-600/6012 & IPC-A-610 Class-2 · RCCA Flying Probe Co-Pilot AOI optimization PCB Defect Co-Pilot

Electrical & Hardware

Schematic reading & PCB debug · electrical troubleshooting & diagnostics · SPICE simulation · Altium Designer · control systems · VFDs & motor starters leakage debug

Process Improvement

Lean manufacturing & 5S · yield & Pareto analysis · Statistical Process Control (SPC) · ECOs & work instructions · capital project management SPC / Pareto

AI-Assisted Development
AI-directed development (Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity) · agentic workflow & multi-agent systems · prompt / agent-instruction authoring · MCP · LLM pipelines (Gemini, local Ollama) · RAG · computer vision (YOLOv8) · Python · SQL · REST APIs

// Education

M.S., IT Management
Belhaven University, Jackson MS · 2024–2025
M.S., Electrical Engineering
SUNY Buffalo, NY · 2021–2023
B.Tech, Electronics & Comm. Engineering
Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research, Chennai · 2017–2021

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