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Hi, I’m Ibrahim Bisen.

I’m an aerospace engineer and hands-on builder in Austin. I like turning sketches into real machines—and spending the rest of my time with old cars, racing, visual collections, art, and whatever else sparks my curiosity.

A little about me Open résumé

A FEW THINGS ABOUT MEIEB–026

Home base: Austin, Texas
Training: Aerospace engineering
Happy place: Drawing board → shop floor
Off hours: E30 · sim racing · visual culture

01 / HELLO, PROPERLY

Engineer by training.
Curious by default.

I’ve always been interested in how ambitious ideas become physical things.

That curiosity led me to aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, then into vehicle development, full-scale testing, robotics, composites, machining, and manufacturing. I’m happiest moving between analysis and the shop—understanding the details, making the thing, and learning from what happens next.

But engineering is only part of who I am. I restore a 1984 BMW E30, race in simulation, collect images of flowers, space, and art, speak English and Turkish with working Russian and Arabic, and usually have one more side project than I have room for.

PERSONAL NOTES001

I care about:

01 Making complicated ideas tangible
02 Learning with my hands
03 Building teams people want to be part of
04 Staying curious outside my field

See what I’m into off the clock

AUShome base

2+2fluent + working languages

’84BMW in progress

F1racing obsession

Equal parts engineer, maker, teammate, and enthusiastic collector of new interests.

02 / PROJECTS

Things I make,
break & rebuild.

Projects are how I turn questions into physical answers—through design, fabrication, software, testing, and plenty of iteration. I keep the individual builds together on their own page, where each one has room for its full story.

COMPLETE PROJECT INDEX DESIGN / BUILD / TEST / LEARN THE WORKBENCH Explore
the work. One focused home for everything I design, build, test, and learn from. See every project

03 / THE ROAD SO FAR

How I got
here.

A compact map of the places where I’ve tested, fabricated, led, and taught. Each one changed how I approach the next problem.

2025

Precision Instrumentation Engineer

MxV Rail · Pueblo, Colorado

Impact testing, precision data acquisition, test-rig design, calibration, and tolerance measurement under demanding dynamic conditions.

2023—25

President & Head of Engineering

Project PL8 · Austin, Texas

Founded and led a 64-member program across four business and eight engineering teams, from concept review toward production.

2023

Manufacturing Team Lead

Texas Guadaloop · Austin, Texas

Led an 11-person team producing composite shells, shop systems, and a custom machined and welded hyperloop trailer.

2023—24

Robotics Instructor

Raindrop Foundation · Austin, Texas

Mentored 13 students through robot building, LEGO SPIKE coding, competition preparation, and collaborative problem-solving.

CAPABILITY MAPLIVE MODEL

01Mechanical designSolidWorks · Inventor · Fusion 360
02Analysis & codeANSYS · MATLAB · Python · C++
03ManufacturingMachining · TIG/MIG · Composites
04LeadershipPrograms · teams · teaching

VEHICLE SYSTEMS✦COMPOSITES✦ROBOTICS✦OLD CARS✦SIM RACING✦VISUAL CULTURE✦

04 / OFF THE CLOCK

There’s more than
engineering.

The things I notice outside work shape what I make inside it.

I keep visual collections of flowers, space, and Renaissance art because each offers a different lesson in form, structure, scale, and detail. I’m also restoring a 1984 BMW E30, building a forged-carbon racing rig, and following ideas in AI and education. This is the part of the site where those interests get to breathe.

Visual archive: Nature · space · Renaissance art
Garage: Nut-and-bolt restoration of a 1984 BMW E30
Languages: English & Turkish · working Russian & Arabic
Always nearby: A sketchbook, a racing wheel, and something that probably needs a jig