Curriculum vitae
Ilia Sidorov
R&D engineer: scientific and precision equipment, full cycle — from concept to a working, manufacturable device
Open to Head of Product 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
Broad-profile R&D engineer. I combine optics, mechanics, electronics, software and production engineering to deliver complete hardware systems, and I have taken scientific instruments from requirements and a first prototype through debugging, testing and into use. I connect engineering, production and product to turn complex technology into a working, manufacturable solution. 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 throughout: parts designed around how they are made and assembled; production organised with contractors and suppliers
- 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; 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
Founder, lead engineer · Maskless Lithography Solutions
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: development, 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
Also built
- Fluorescence microscopes and a histological slide scanner: motorized stage, autofocus, height map, image stitching
- A first maskless lithography stepper: about 500 nm lateral resolution, a ~2 × 2 mm field; 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 graduate student'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
- Full R&D cycle
- Idea, calculation, design, prototype, assembly, debugging, software, process
- Engineering
- Optics, precision mechanics, system integration of industrial components, programming, automation
- Production
- DFMA, production organisation, work with contractors and suppliers, CNC machining, establishment of technological processes
- Domains
- Scientific instrumentation, microscopy, tomography, lithography, microfluidics, biomedical tasks
- Tools
- Fusion 360, SolidWorks, 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
- Englishintermediate
Details, photos and videos of every project: iliasidorov.com · iliasidorov.com/portfolio