Gornekk (Sun) Suwattanapong — Portfolio

A builder across disciplines.

Trained to solve problems with equations, but just as likely to solve them with a story.

Give me the problem, not the solution, and I'll design my way to something better than what you asked for.

MEng Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London London ⇄ Bangkok Graduated June 2026

Gornekk (Sun) Suwattanapong

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Imperial College London2022–2026

University · Integrated Master’s

Mechanical Engineering MEng

Upper Second Class Honours 67%overall

Year 165.4%Upper Second Class Honours

Year 265.7%Upper Second Class Honours

Year 363.9%Upper Second Class Honours

Year 4 (Master’s year)71.3%First Class Honours

Harrow International School Bangkok2013–2022

Secondary education

A‑Levels 4 A*

A* in Maths, Further Maths, Chemistry, Physics

IGCSEs 9 A* · 1 A · 1 B

A* in Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, History, First Language English, English as a Second Language and English Literature · A in Additional Maths · B in First Language Thai ★ Top in the World · IGCSE Maths 2019

Engineering

Real projects with real budgets, real clients, and real sign-offs — from oil and gas to medical devices.

Final-year project · live product · 2025–26

Virtual Manufacturing Lab

A gamified browser simulation of manufacturing processes that can't safely run in Imperial's teaching workshops, with a built-in AI tutor that guides with hints rather than answers. Designed, built and shipped solo on a £250 budget. Playable now by clicking on the poster on the left.

25 playtesters4+/5 every criterion80% would recommend

My final-year project for my four-year integrated master’s course, Mechanical Engineering MEng at Imperial College London, which got lots of praise from professors and scored 75% (A).

AGreat work!

Virtual Manufacturing Lab — the title screen poster (click to play) — Virtual Manufacturing Lab

Virtual Manufacturing Lab main menu — the factory floor with the six manufacturing processes labelled — the factory floor

Virtual Manufacturing Lab — the injection moulding machine overview, with clamp, mould and injection unit labelled — injection moulding

Heat-treatment mini-game flow — feedback for every player outcome — example mini-game flow

Medical test rig design · mechatronics & feasibility lead · 2024–25

Menstrual product testing rig

There's no realistic testing standard for menstrual products, so the team built a two-degree-of-freedom rig that reproduces pelvic motion (walking, jogging, and running) to push for a future British standard. I led the design and mechatronics and ran procurement. It held ±0.5 mm and ±0.5° repeatability over 9-hour runs, came in 38% under budget, and took home the Innoclusive Prize, awarded to the year’s most innovative and inclusive project.

2-DOF motion system£940 of £1,500 budgetunanimous design sign-off

The two-degree-of-freedom menstrual product testing rig with the fabric pelvis model mounted — the 2-DOF rig

Sun presenting the dynamic rig at the Imperial DMT exhibition — DMT exhibition

The full DMT team at the Imperial third-year exhibition — the DMT team

The dynamics sub-team with the rig in the workshop — dynamics sub-team

PTT Exploration & Production · mechanical engineering internship · summer 2025

Four projects in two months

At Thailand's national oil & gas company: ran the technical bid evaluation for a 15-million-baht chemical-injection skid; led a cross-discipline plant water-readiness study; designed a subsea camera elevation mechanism from concept to sign-off; and built an AI tool that reads piping-class PDFs into a searchable database.

15M฿ procurementoffshore wellheadsGemini API tooling

The PTTEP intern cohort in front of the DAWE wellhead platform — the intern cohort

PTTEP internship completion certificate at the closing ceremony — completion certificate

Sun in a hard hat in front of the DAWE wellhead platform at the PTTEP yard — offshore at PTTEP

Vibrations engineering consultant · 2026

Where engineering meets consulting

Traced a commercial exercise bike's noise complaint to a structural resonance at 200 RPM using impact-hammer modal testing and FFT analysis, and delivered a risk assessment with a costed fix roadmap.

modal testingFFT analysisfix roadmap

Vibration test setup — impact-hammer modal testing on the ergometer with FFT readout — modal testing rig

Finite element thinning-contour plot of a hot-stamped EV aluminium door inner, simulated in Autoform — FEA thinning plot

Sustainable manufacturing simulation · 2026

Forming a defect-free EV door

Used finite element analysis in Autoform to model how forming speed and blank-holding force drive localised thinning and wrinkling in a hot-stamped EV aluminium door inner. The model matched physical tests to within 1.3% on thickness. I then tuned the mass-production parameters with Bayesian optimisation to reach defect-free forming, for a projected £10M in savings and an 86% cut in CO2 through the FAST process.

Autoform FEABayesian optimisation1.3% validated

KMITL · student internship, robotics department · 2020

Robots and a night-light

Self-navigating Arduino robots with ultrasonic and line-following sensors, and a Raspberry Pi night-light I built for my visually-impaired grandmother. Building things that actually help someone is what got me into engineering in the first place.

Line-following Arduino robot tracking a black line with its IR sensor array — line-following robot

Commercial

Where the technical side meets the commercial: digital transformation, wealth management, and a student startup.

Sales Management System aftersales overview — monthly targets against actuals, repair orders by customer and payment type, car models serviced, and branch comparison charts — aftersales overview

ODT · business analyst internship (digital transformation) · Jul–Aug 2026

Dashboards for Toyota Nont Group

On ODT's digital transformation project for Toyota Nont Group, I interviewed the executives one by one to gather their requirements: what decisions they make, what numbers they check, and what they can't see today. I then took the dealership's scattered data and designed visual executive dashboards, each one built around how that executive actually works: sales, aftersales, and insurance. I also mapped the dealership's end-to-end workflow across departments to find the bottlenecks and streamline how work runs in the new system.

business analystrequirement gatheringexecutive dashboardsworkflow mappingdigital transformation

Sales Management System sales overview — monthly A-card, booking and delivery targets against actuals, and the daily sales trend graph — sales overview

Sales Management System insurance overview — new policies, cars in for claims, policies sold by insurer, and the policies and claims table — insurance overview

Prototype

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Kiatnakin Phatra Bank · wealth management internship · 2024

Best Overall team of 50+ interns

Researched fixed-income and equity securities to build tailored client portfolios. As the only intern without a finance background, I leaned into translating dense analysis into plain, client-ready advice, presenting our findings to mentors and clients every week. My team won Best Overall out of more than fifty interns.

Receiving the Best Overall team award at Kiatnakin Phatra — Best Overall award

CareQuip travel kit — the branded pouch open, packed with essentials — the CareQuip kit

Junior Achievement · start-up competition · 2020

Co-CEO, CareQuip

A student startup under the Junior Achievement programme. We sold a travel kit for on-the-go medical care, with plasters, repellent, and other essentials in one branded pouch, priced at 250 baht and sold at school fairs.

product + brandreal salesCo-CEO

Creative

The storytelling half of the portfolio: a global science-video win, a YouTube channel, theatre, and film.

Breakthrough Junior Challenge · 2021

Space Exploration Champion

At 17 I taught myself the physics, then wrote, filmed, and edited a video called
"What Do Black Holes Have to Do With Time Travel?". In January 2022 the Breakthrough
Prize Foundation named it the winner of the Space Exploration prize, a special
category of the 2021 Breakthrough Junior Challenge.

The prize was a trip to a Rocket Lab launch in New Zealand. COVID meant I never actually got to go, but being recognised for something I'd taught myself, start to finish, still means a lot to me.

Breakthrough Prize Foundation Announces 2021 Space Exploration Champion ↗

Still from the winning Breakthrough Junior Challenge video on black holes and time travel — the winning video

Thumbnail — Can I Pass the World's Best Uni Without Any Lectures? — Can I Pass the World's Best Uni Without Any Lectures?

YouTube · @SundafisH · 2015–present

The channel

My video playground: a place to make whatever I want, exactly how I envision it. I do it all myself,
start to finish: writing, directing, filming, editing, and designing every thumbnail. From comedy
to educational, music, gaming, and full-on event films, my channel has it all, because it was
never really about getting famous. It's just somewhere to show off whatever cool thing I'm
building at the time, kind of like a video version of this website, and it's picked up over 30k views
along the way. Ten-plus years of it has sharpened my editing, storytelling, and cinematography skills,
because with every upload I've tried to push at least one of them a level beyond the last.
So even though some videos are very old, I'm still proud of every single one.

youtube.com/@SundafisH ↗

Theatre · London Thai Night (T-Stage) · 2024

Cupid’s Secret Recipe (คิวปิดพิชิตใจเชฟ) — the annual play

Wrote and directed the inter-university musical play promoting Thai culture in the UK. For over 20 years it had always run as a subsidised event. Ours packed a full house of over 300 attendees and turned a profit.

Watch the performance ↗

Poster for คิวปิดพิชิตใจเชฟ — the London Thai Night 2024 play — London Thai Night 2024

Technical skills

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Python

HTML

CSS

LaTeX

SolidWorks

Arduino

Blender

Photoshop

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Claude

ChatGPT

Gemini

Extracurricular

Leading societies, running events, and doing outreach across continents.

Events & band specialist · Samaggi Samagom · 2025

Samaggi Fest

Samaggi Samagom is the Thai Association in the UK, founded in 1901 under royal patronage and now the home for around 10,000 Thai students. I helped organise its events across the year and ran stage and band logistics for Samaggi Fest, a three-headliner concert in London with over 1,000 people.

Imperial College · Thai Society · 2023–25

Vice President, Imperial Thai Society

Vice President and Events Officer for a 200+ member community, organising career, cultural, academic, and social events through the year, fostering engagement and a sense of community across age groups.

Sun leading Imperial Thai Society members with a megaphone at an outdoor event — Thai Soc VP

Sun with the EWB Seeds of Change poster at the Great Exhibition Road Festival — Seeds of Change

Engineers Without Borders Imperial · events lead · 2023–25

Six projects, five partner companies

Sourced and ran EWB's pro-bono project programme, pairing student teams with real cleantech companies: machine-learning pipelines for Biofonic's below-ground soil sensors, production scale-up for BioTwin's hemp-based BioStud, biobased-fibre R&D with Tera Mira at Makerversity, a solar-desalination feasibility study with Naked Energy, and retrofit data analytics for UpGreen.

UpGreen

Additional highlights

Cambridge International · June 2019

Top in the World — IGCSE Mathematics

The highest mark worldwide in the Cambridge June 2019 examinations.

Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award certificate — highest mark in the world, IGCSE Mathematics

Performed at Thailand's biggest stage

Played guitar twice at GeminiFourth's sold-out Run the World concert, in front of over 11,000 at Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani.

Sun playing guitar on stage at the sold-out GeminiFourth Run the World concert at Impact Arena

House Captain

House Captain for 2020–21, leading 100+ students to a House of the Year win. What I'm proudest of is that juniors who'd never joined anything started showing up.