Gornekk (Sun) Suwattanapong — Portfolio
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.
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
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 above.
Medical test rig design · mechatronics & feasibility lead · 2024–25
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 was voted the cohort's most inclusive and innovative project.
PTT Exploration & Production · mechanical engineering internship · summer 2025
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.
Vibrations engineering consultant · 2026
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.
Sustainable manufacturing simulation · 2026
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.
KMITL · student internship, robotics department · 2020
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.
The storytelling half of the portfolio: a global science-video win, a YouTube channel, theatre, and film.
Breakthrough Junior Challenge · 2021
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.
Watch the winning video ↗
YouTube · @SundafisH · 2019–present
Everything I make myself, start to finish: study experiments like Can I Pass the World's Best Uni Without Any Lectures?, guitar covers, gaming, and full event films, with over 30k views across the channel.
youtube.com/@SundafisH ↗Theatre · London Thai Night (T-Stage) · 2024
Wrote and directed the inter-university play promoting Thai culture in the UK. We planned it as a subsidised event and ended up with a full house and a profit.
Watch the performance ↗
Where the technical side meets the commercial: a startup I'm building, wealth management, and a startup contest.
Founder · solo startup · work in progress · 2026
A course-notes platform I'm building solo, start to finish. You learn real courses from a scrolling feed, buy and sell notes, and ask a built-in AI tutor anything. The idea is learning that feels like scrolling. Still in development, with a public demo coming soon.
Demo coming soon
Kiatnakin Phatra Bank · wealth management internship · 2024
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.
Junior Achievement · start-up competition · 2020
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.
Excel
Word
PowerPoint
Python
HTML
CSS
LaTeX
SolidWorks
Arduino
Blender
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
After Effects
Claude
ChatGPT
GeminiLeading societies, running events, and doing outreach across continents.
Events & band specialist · Samaggi Samagom · 2025
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 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.
Engineers Without Borders Imperial · events lead · 2023–25
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
Cambridge International · June 2019
The highest mark worldwide in the Cambridge June 2019 examinations.
Played guitar twice at GeminiFourth's sold-out Run the World concert, in front of over 11,000 at Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani.
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.
Final 20 bands of Thailand's biggest school-band competition with my band, Toxic.
Played live for charity on multiple occasions.
30th of 2,608 worldwide in the international round.
Multiple Gold awards in UK Maths Trust challenges.
South East Asian Mathematics Competition.
Taught myself HTML, CSS, and Java in four weeks.
Robotics Engineering course.
Studied biochemistry concepts and lab techniques, assisting research on medically significant bacteria towards new medicines.
Built structures for less-fortunate schools.
Founded a club to spark younger students' passion for maths.
Member of the Sixth Form and Academic committees. I also filmed, directed and edited the year's annual musical introduction video.