Electrical Engineer · Flight Test Systems

Aryan Chahardovalee

UBC Electrical Engineering graduate with hands-on work in flight test operations, RF hardware, satellite systems, maritime EMC, photonics, and telecom labs.

Aryan Chahardovalee
Open to opportunities
41Builds
4Orgs
EITEGBC
RF Design PCB Photonics FPGA EMC / EMI Signal Integrity
Measure it. Build it. Prove it.
What stands out

A portfolio built around real systems.

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Flight Test

Autonomous aircraft in live operations.

At Zipline, I work close to real flight environments where safety, procedures, aircraft behavior, and engineering judgment all matter at once.

Zipline
Space Hardware

CubeSat RF and deployment hardware.

With UBC ORBIT, I worked on satellite communications, antenna deployment, RF testing, and link-budget thinking for hardware that has to survive orbit.

437 MHz
Maritime Systems

Shipboard power, antennas, and EMC.

At Seaspan, I worked on the practical side of large-scale electrical systems: communication reliability, interference, power distribution, UPS loads, and documentation.

EMC / EMI
Proof Trail

Reports, boards, code, and test notes.

My strongest projects are tied to concrete artifacts: lab measurements, schematics, dashboards, reports, simulations, and build notes.

41 builds
From small systems to bigger ones

Where I work

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Selected work

Projects

A focused set of engineering builds, field work, reports, code, and measured results.

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#ProjectDomainStack
About
From small systems to bigger ones.

I'm an Electrical Engineer and University of British Columbia graduate with hands-on experience across autonomous aircraft, satellite hardware, maritime communication systems, photonic integrated circuits, RF systems, and drone platforms.

My work spans Flight Test Operations at Zipline International, the UBC ORBIT Satellite Design Team, an internship at Seaspan, and a year-long capstone with Huawei Canada. I'm also training for my pilot's license. I'm drawn to the boundary between hardware and software, especially where signal integrity, safety, and system-level thinking decide whether something works in the real world.

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Professional Roles
Internships & Capstone
Education & Technical Teams
2026 2024 2023 2022 2021 2018
Responsibilities
    Flight Test Ops Engineer
    Zipline International
    Working close to live aircraft operations, where the job is part systems thinking, part calm execution. I care a lot about test discipline, clean handoffs, and making sure the real-world details do not get lost between the aircraft, the team, and the procedure.
    2024 to Present
    Exclusive Partner Program Member
    TELUS
    Part of the TELUS Exclusive Partner Program. A different kind of technical work: more people-facing, more direct, and a good reminder that systems only matter if people can actually use them.
    2024
    Capstone Engineer
    Huawei Canada
    Worked on a drone communications capstone, looking at link behavior, RF reliability, and how a control system holds up when the environment is not polite. A lot of the value came from turning tests into decisions, not just plots.
    2023 to 2024
    Airline and Flight Operations Coursework
    BCIT
    Completed two terms of the Airline and Flight Operations program. I did not finish the diploma, but I still took a lot from the aviation operations, safety, and cockpit-discipline side of it.
    2024, two terms
    Engineering Intern
    Seaspan
    Got a very practical and valuable experience in marine electrical systems: power distribution, UPS loads, shipboard constraints, and the kind of engineering where drawings eventually have to survive a vessel.
    2022
    RF & Hardware, Satellite Team
    UBC ORBIT
    Worked on CubeSat hardware and RF systems with a team that made space feel less abstract. Antennas, deployment hardware, link budgets, testing, and the constant reminder that small hardware decisions can become mission-level problems.
    2021 to 2023
    B.A.Sc. Electrical Engineering
    University of British Columbia
    Studied electrical engineering at UBC, with the useful mix of theory, lab work, late nights, and projects that slowly pushed me toward RF, embedded systems, photonics, and flight.
    2018 to 2023
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    something.