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Muhammad Wadiwala
Houston, Texas · wwmuhammad05@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/muhammad-wadiwala · wadiwala.net
Education
Texas A&M University · B.S. Electrical Engineering, minor in Business
Expected 2027
Texas A&M University at Qatar · Study abroad semester, Doha
Spring 2025
Experience
SpaceX · Starlink Engineering Intern, Operations Engineering
Bastrop, TX · Jul 2026 – present
- Manufacturing data analysis on the Starlink production line.
Microsoft · Technical Program Management Intern, Cloud Operations + Innovation
Redmond, WA · May – Jul 2026
- Rebuilt a quarterly invoice-audit pipeline from a developer-only Python notebook into a client-side browser tool, validated every output tab against the reference workbook, and reconciled totals to the cent. Review went from 276 line-by-line edits to about 80 PO-level decisions.
- Diagnosed why Power BI PDF exports ignored project selections, then built a Node.js and Playwright exporter that captures live report state, replacing seven visuals that couldn't be exported.
- Built and tested Copilot Studio agents grounded in SharePoint documents, cutting an oversized instruction set from 19,437 to 7,725 characters to fix a retrieval failure. Also built agents for branded decks and Power BI report builds.
JPMorgan Chase · Summer Analyst, Advancing Black Pathways Fellowship (Innovation Development Program)
Plano, TX · Summer 2025
- Ran a full product discovery playbook on employee mentorship: interviews, persona, competitive analysis, OKRs, concept, risk review, pitch and roadmap.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (SAMHSA) · Office of Financial Resources Intern
Remote · 2024 – 2025
- Prepared budget justifications and Budget Data Requests, maintained reporting data and supported the office's annual awards ceremony.
NASA Johnson Space Center · Electrical Engineering Intern, Joint Station LAN Integration Laboratory
Houston, TX · Jun – Aug 2023
- Wrote a Python log parser and built per-device connection timelines to investigate why crew tablets dropped Wi-Fi, then ran a multi-day lab test series that isolated device-side causes.
Southwest Airlines · Ground Operations Intern
Houston, TX · Summer 2022
- Supported airport operations and helped design realistic job-preview material for three frontline roles.
BetterBuilt · Co-founder
Houston, TX · 2020 – 2023
- Co-founded a PC-build consulting business with my brother and built a Python and SQLite parts matcher to automate recommendations.
Projects and research
- NASA HUNCH, national finalist (Destiny Module category, 2021–22): led the design of a separable exhibit module in Autodesk Inventor
- LLM watermarking research (LSAMP, 2025): hard vs. soft green-list biasing and z-score detection
- ForwardNotes, 2nd place at the Product@TAMU Ideathon (2024): led a four-person team on an AI journaling concept
- Drag Dynamics (Ignite Design Challenge, 2024): rocket descent simulation with a 4.43 m/s touchdown, scored 298/300
Leadership
- Product@TAMU officer: logistics, then Ideathon lead for the club's product design competition
- ColorStack at Texas A&M, outreach chair
- Accenture Student Leadership Program fellow; P&G Standout Emerging Leaders
Skills
- Product discovery, user interviews, OKRs, roadmaps
- Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, Node.js, Playwright
- Power BI (Power Query, DAX, PBIP), Excel, Copilot Studio
- Figma, Lucid, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, MATLAB