engineering · product · ai

Luis Dehlwes

Mechanical engineer who blends manufacturing R&D, applied AI and full-stack building, and runs it all on one system of his own.

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2023 · where it started

A surfboard with a jet drive.

The build that hooked me. My first deep dive into 3D design and printing: a water-jet drive around a brushless motor, fully self-developed, designed in CAD, printed part by part, and ridden. “I could build that” has not let go since.

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2025–26 · research thesis

Ceramic thrusters, printed and fired.

My first real contact with high-performance engineering and advanced materials: porous ceramics for clean in-space propulsion, taken from material preparation through DLP printing all the way to high-temperature testing at the University of Stuttgart's IKMT.

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2025–26 · the system

My own cloud, governed.

At some point I stopped renting other people's platforms and built my own. A Tailscale-meshed fleet, run by my deployment platform Nexus, exposes every operation as a capability with a risk class, so I and my AI agents operate the same infrastructure, safely.

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2024–26 · software & ai

Apps that ship end to end.

Software began out of necessity, since every project needed it, and became a discipline of its own, with AI woven through: Legacy AI preserves organizational knowledge through AI interviews, Pulse turns Fitbit data into a personal Whoop, FinanceOS runs my money.

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now · master thesis at dlr

Designing radial turbomachinery.

Now the properly scientific chapter: models for radial compressor and turbine stages that plug into DLR's engine preliminary-design tools, so helicopter-engine concepts can be evaluated thermodynamically from day one.

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the point

One system. Many outputs.

Hardware, research, software and the infrastructure underneath, all built and run by one person, with AI as a governed co-operator.