# Carl Fattal > Principal Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/carlfattal ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer @ Synapse Product Development Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ● Led a multi-disciplinary team and designed from scratch the first iteration of a fully automated commercial cocktail dispensing system with 1 ml accuracy and repeatability (Patents pending). ●Designed, prototyped, and tested a safe cutting and shredding mechanism for a new food waste composter ●Designed and launched an open-source, deep sea solar charging marine light for commercial fishing to prevent turtle bycatch ●Led a multidisciplinary team to design a single use injection tree pesticide dispenser, as well as the with automated assembly, pesticide filling, and tree installation processes. In production, volumes up to 100mm/yr. ●Leading a team of engineers to help our client redesign a container-sized enclosure to house electronics, caustic chemicals, and battery modules while meeting all regulations. ### Director Of Engineering @ Nourish Technology Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA ### Co-Founder @ Stealth Robotics Startup Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | California ● Designed and built a prototype of a toilet cleaning bot for a large hotel group ● Designing a maid robot for the home, initial emphasis on cleaning and serving ### Staff Engineer and Manager @ Tesla Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | California Model 3 AGVs, Robots, and more automation ### Manager and Engineering Lead @ Robotics Startup Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed an autonomous service and social robot for the home ### Technical Lead @ Google Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View + Developed a high resolution airborne camera system (in production) + Architected and designed data centers (electro-mechanical), renewable energy, and consumer electronics products + Developed business cases for future high-impact products ### Lead Engineer @ NetApp Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 . Mechanical lead on Storage and Filer products. . Responsible for design, leading teams, budgeting, scheduling, on all mechanical activities on the project . Oversee local and international design and manufacturing teams ### Sr Mechanical Engineer / PM/ Team Lead @ Acorn Product Development Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 • Project Manager and Lead Engineer on a series of router products for a major overseas client. • Mechanical Lead on a new generation of a family of server products for a major US client. ### Consulting Sr Mechanical Engineering @ Apple Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 • Improved the mechanical and thermal design of a complex server design, ### Consulting Sr Mechanical Engineer @ Motorola Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Led and managed the mechanical and part of the electronics and optics design of optical midstage access products ### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Valo Inc. (start-up) Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 . Developed the architecture and detailed design of Rack-mount and Wall-mount Access product equipment ### Sr Mechanical Engineer @ Onix Microsystems Inc. (start-up) Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 . Led the architecture and detailed design of a MEMS optical switching product ### Physical Design Engineer III @ Fujitsu Network Communications Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 • Mechanical lead on several new Access copper and optical products ### Mechanical Design Engineer @ Nortel Networks Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 • Mechanical lead on several ACCESS and FTTP copper/optical products and subsystems for CO, OSP and remote applications ## Education ### BSME in Mechanical Engineer Polytechnique Montréal ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carlfattal --- Source: https://flows.cv/carlfattal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/carlfattal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12