01Engineering Student & Builder

Kerellos“Kiro”Abdelmalak

FYE @ Purdue ’30NASA App Dev ’25 National Finalist

West Lafayette, IN

Open to internships & research

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About

I’m Kerellos Abdelmalak, a first-year Engineering student at Purdue University (Class of 2030) heading toward electrical or aerospace engineering.

I’m an engineering intern at ECD working on industrial controls, and the co-founder and lead developer of Phantom Track, a wearable soccer performance tracker built on an ESP32 with a custom PCB and companion app.

At Purdue I’m on the Purdue Space Program avionics team, designing flight electronics and PCBs in Altium. In 2025 I was a NASA App Development Challenge national finalist for an Artemis II mission visualization built in Unity and C#, which sparked my interest in spaceflight systems. I’m driven to build things that ship and make an impact.

Education

Purdue University

College of Engineering · 2026–2030

Boiler Up

Huntley High School

2022–2026

Experience

Fall 2026 – Present
Team Member · MED · EPICS — Medical Design Projects
EPCS 10100 · Sec. 6 · West Lafayette, IN
- Joined Purdue EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) on the MED team as an incoming first-year for fall 2026
- Multidisciplinary teams partner with community stakeholders to design, build, and deliver engineering solutions for medical and accessibility needs over a full academic year (or longer)
- Project assignment pending as the semester starts — entry will expand with deliverables once the team’s partner project is set
Aug 2026 – Present
Avionics Member · Purdue Space Program (PSP)
West Lafayette, IN
- Designing flight-electronics PCBs in Altium Designer for rocket avionics systems
- Supporting sensor integration, power distribution, and board bring-up for flight computers
- Contributing to embedded firmware and hardware testing for telemetry, logging, and recovery-critical electronics
- Collaborating across structures, mechanisms, and GNC to deliver flight-ready avionics hardware
Jun 2026 – Aug 2026
Engineer Intern · Electrical Control Distributors (ECD)
On-site · Crystal Lake, IL
- Programmed and tested control systems for industrial air cannons used in mining operations
- Built and wired industrial control panels for commercial laundry systems (industrial washers and dryers valued in the thousands)
- Assembled and wired camera box systems for highway and traffic camera applications
- Collaborated with engineers on panel designs and troubleshot build issues on the production floor
- Applied hands-on hardware skills to real production work in a UL 508A industrial controls environment

Projects

Summer 2026

PSPocket — Pocket Game Console

Schematic / parts · PSP Liquids Avionics

Handheld game-console PCB built as a summer onboarding project for incoming PSP Liquids members. STM32C031K6T6 drives a 16×16 SMD LED matrix through daisy-chained SN74HC595D shift registers, with accelerometer, button array, buzzer, and dual potentiometer inputs.

STM32
KiCad
Altium
PCB
SN74HC595
PSP Liquids

Open spec sheet

Feb 2025 – Present

Phantom Track

Co-founder & Lead Developer

Soccer performance tracking system combining ESP32 hardware with GPS, an MPU6050 IMU, and Firebase. Designed a custom PCB in KiCad and built a Flutter mobile app for real-time stat tracking — focused on hardware–software integration, UX, and accurate data logging for athletes and coaches.

ESP32
Custom PCB
KiCad
Flutter
Firebase
GPS/IMU

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Oct 2024 – Feb 2025

NASA App Development Challenge

2025 National Finalist · Team Lead · Project DJANKS

Named a 2025 NASA App Development Challenge (ADC) national finalist. Led a 6-member team building a Unity simulation of the Artemis II lunar mission path — overseeing project direction, UI/UX, and data integration, plus STEM outreach to local schools and libraries.

NASA ADC
National Finalist
Artemis II
Unity
C#
Team Lead

2025

FlowForHer.com

Co-founder

Bilingual (Arabic/English) women's health information platform serving Syria and the broader Middle East. Led product direction and web development to deliver clear, culturally aware health resources.