# Chinmay Deshpande

> Director of Engineering, Product Design, R&D

Location: San Leandro, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chinmaydeshpande

As Director of Engineering at Energy Recovery, a leader in sustainable technology, I guide cutting-edge product design and R&D initiatives. With over 18 years of experience in industrial product development, my expertise encompasses turbomachinery, bearing design, fluid modeling, and building test loops, with a laser-focused approach to execution. My leadership has enabled the successful delivery of new products and technologies, fostering collaboration across engineering teams to drive impactful results.  

My focus lies in building dynamic teams, developing innovative solutions in hydraulic systems and turbomachinery, leveraging expertise in stress analysis, rotor dynamics, and CFD. Passionate about building robust engineering processes, I aim to empower teams to meet complex technical challenges. Together, we advance Energy Recovery's mission to create efficient, high-performance products in the energy sector.

## Work Experience
### Director of Engineering, Product Design @ Energy Recovery, Inc.
Jan 2025 – Present | San Leandro, California, United States

### Engineering Manager, Product Design @ Energy Recovery, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead a team of R&D engineers to deliver new products and technology to the business units.

### Principal Technologist | Engineering Team Leader @ Energy Recovery, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead a team to develop 2 new products from concept to field testing.

### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Energy Recovery, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Technical architect of O&G turbochargers (sealless, product lubricated, high energy density)
- Conceptualized, designed, engineered, developed & tested novel turbochargers for O&G application
- Led the research, design & testing of product lubricated bearings, process simulation and testing of turbochargers
- Designed LabVIEW based data acquisition software & test procedure for turbochargers per API 610

### Senior R&D Engineer @ Flowserve Corporation
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Vernon, CA
- Designed single stage overhung test pump for high energy impeller cavitation visualization 
- Analyzed & designed 10,000 psi water-injection barrel pump casing (non-linear analysis involved showing that local yielding of material will ratchet down in 3 pressure cycles)
- Designed, engineered and tested lube oil pressure compensation system as part of subsea twin-screw multiphase pump project. This involved developing a novel new valve actuated using mechanical linkage. 
- Performed fatigue analysis of high energy impellers (Goodman diagram, Interference plots, Campbell diagram, SAFE diagram) using one-way FSI
- Redesigned offshore gimbal based water injection pump skid to fix high vibration due to specific mode shapes based on modal analysis

### Staff R&D Engineer @ Flowserve Corporation
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | Vernon, CA
Responsibilities included working on range of R&D projects as assigned & providing engineering design & analysis support to global business units.

Worked on variety of projects such as: 
- Design & development of critical high pressure compensation system for subsea twin-screw pump. Involved in conceptual development, design & analysis, engineering & testing
- Modal (vibration) analysis of pump & pump components (eg. mechanical seals) to avoid structural resonance
- Nonlinear FEA of pump pressure boundary components for structural integrity in ANSYS on the basis of ASME BPVC Section VIII, Div 1, 2 & 3 (nuclear pump LOCA event gasket leakage analysis using, nonlinear FEA)
- Development of analytical models to simulate dynamics of hydraulic machinery
- 3D modeling of pump hydraulic components - mixed & radial flow impellers and diffusers. Using proprietary hydraulic software to make impeller vane layouts


## Education
### Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Mechanical Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chinmaydeshpande
- Portfolio: http://www.energyrecovery.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13