Curriculum vitae
Ilia Sidorov
Hands-on hardware engineer: mechanical design, prototyping and fabrication — every project from idea to a working prototype
Open to hands-on product development, prototyping and technical leadership roles
Quy Nhơn, Vietnam · open to relocation anywhere
- iliasidorov.com
- fozzfut@gmail.com
- Telegram · WhatsApp: +7 926 046 5551
- Phone in Vietnam: +84 88 820 1884
- github.com/fozzfut · LinkedIn
Profile
Every project I take on starts as an idea and ends as a working prototype, and I usually run several very different ones at once: precision mechanics, optics, electronics and the software that drives them.
I build what I design. I machine parts and fixtures on CNC myself, 3D print, and organise production with machine shops, contractors and suppliers: drawings, quotes, machining, anodizing, inspection and assembly. Parts are designed around how they will be made and assembled (DFMA). Ready to relocate for the right role, to any country.
Key achievement
Maskless photolithography system, developed and built solo
- Problem statement
- Concept
- Design
- Mechanics
- Optics
- Software
- Production
- Assembly
- Debugging
- Lithography process
- Industrial components, integrated: Delta ASDA-A2 servo drives on CANopen, optical linear scales, a TI DLP4710 DMD — ready-made modules joined into one system instead of custom circuitry
- DFMA and fabrication: parts designed around how they are made and assembled; a machined and anodized XY stage; production organised with machine shops, contractors and suppliers
- Calibration instead of tight tolerances: a camera in the wafer plane measures geometry, dose and stitching, and the software cancels them (illumination flat to within 2–3 % across the field) — so parts, rails and assembly need not be perfect, which keeps the machine cheaper to build
- In-house control software: GDSII import and tiling, die arrays, contrast autofocus, substrate height map, live wafer map
- Process established: spin coating, exposure-time sweeps, development; test chips stitched from 1 869 exposure fields without visible seams
- Result: Prototype 1.0 is a working device that patterns real wafers and has reached the commercial stage; Prototype 2.0, a modular sub-micron motion platform, is in design
Project website: iliasidorov.com → Photos of results: design against result →
Experience
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2026 — now
Independent R&D Engineer · Maskless lithography project
Quy Nhơn, Vietnam- Brought the maskless lithography system to a working Prototype 1.0 and designed its modular successor
- Preparing the move to production: specifications, partner and investor search, demonstrations
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2022 — 2026
Project Engineer · LLC Abisense
Sochi, Russia · biomedical optical imaging- Fluorescence tomography device: refinement of selected subassemblies, then oversight of serial production
- Scientific instruments from requirements and prototype to debugging, testing and implementation
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2022 — 2026
Mechanical Engineer · Nanobiotechnology Laboratory, MIPT
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow- Optical and microscope subsystems for a research programme in genomic technologies and optogenetics
- A prototype setup for controlled photoactivation of micro-samples, and its testing
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2021 — 2023
Sirius University of Science and Technology
Sochi, Russia · Nanobiomedicine- Research Laboratory Assistant, then Junior Specialist
Other projects
- Microfluidic chip, turnkey: 100 µm channels milled in aluminium with a 0.1 mm end mill, then assembled and tested
- Fluorescence microscopes and a motorized histology slide scanner: mechanics, Arduino firmware and a control app with autofocus, height map and image stitching
- An XY stage for 96-well plates on Parker linear modules
- A direct-drive tubular linear motor, wound and tested on the bench
- A first maskless lithography stepper: about 500 nm lateral resolution, a 100 × 100 mm working area stitched from fields of up to 2 × 2 mm; microfluidic devices made on it
- A setup for selective photoactivation of neurons and cell cultures, based on that stepper; supervised its build, and it supported a bachelor's thesis defence
- Engineering software: a Fusion 360-style workbench for FreeCAD, an open-source bridge that lets an AI agent drive Fusion 360, layout tools for GDSII
- Co-author of a paper in a Web of Science journal and four abstracts at the 65th MIPT Scientific Conference
Competencies
- Mechanical
- Mechanical design, precision mechanics and motion, DFMA, prototyping, system integration of industrial components
- Fabrication
- CNC machining (incl. micro-machining), 3D printing, work with machine shops, contractors and suppliers, production organisation, serial production oversight
- Full cycle
- Idea, calculation, design, prototype, assembly, debugging, testing, software, process; several parallel projects with competing priorities
- Multidisciplinary
- Optics, electronics, programming, automation
- Domains
- Scientific instrumentation, microscopy, tomography, lithography, microfluidics, biomedical tasks
- Tools
- Fusion 360, Autodesk Inventor, FreeCAD; Python, PySide6 / Qt, OpenCV; CANopen servo drives, Arduino, PLCs; Microsoft Project, Six Sigma
Education
- Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and PhysicsMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Phystech School of Biological and Medical Physics, biology track
- Bachelor's degree, Applied InformaticsNational Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET), Moscow · 2013 — 2017
Languages
- Russiannative
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency
Details, photos and videos of every project: iliasidorov.com · iliasidorov.com/projects