I grew up in Rajahmundry — a small city in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the kind of place where ambition is not discouraged, but it is not exactly handed to you either. You have to find it yourself, carry it quietly, and build your own path toward it. Engineering came early. The logic of how things work — how structures carry load, how materials behave under pressure, how a design decision at the concept stage echoes through every step of production — that kind of thinking fe

If you have spent any time looking at 3D-printed parts on LinkedIn or at trade shows, you have seen the visual: a component riddled with a repeating geometric pattern, triangles or octet cells filling the internal volume. It looks impressive. It photographs well. It signals that additive manufacturing was involved. But in many cases, that lattice is doing very little engineering work. It is decoration. And decoration has a cost. What a lattice actually does A lattice structur

There is a conversation that happens in almost every early-stage hardware project. An engineer or founder has a part in mind. They know roughly what it needs to do. They have a machine in mind, a material in mind, maybe even a quote from a print service. What they do not have is a design that actually takes advantage of what additive manufacturing can do. This is the most expensive mistake in additive manufacturing — and it is almost always invisible until it is too late. The