Soufiane Kheddaoui

Keeping
automated
production
running.

The role

Aerospace Industrial Engineer

The work

I deploy, test, and optimize the robotic systems behind modern manufacturing. Robots are only useful when they run — my work sits where the hardware, the software, and the people on the floor meet.

Wide view of an aerospace assembly hall lined with work stations. — Plate 01 — Assembly hall, integration baysCourtesy NASA, public domain

Practice

Three disciplines

Robotics Integration

Bringing robotic cells online and keeping them there — parameter tuning, fault diagnosis, and the hands-on troubleshooting that turns a specification into a working line.

Process Optimization

Finding the time and quality left on the table. Cycle-time reduction, method standardization, and operator training that makes improvements hold across shifts.

Systems Testing

Validation before deployment and diagnosis after it — simulation, regression and functional testing, and the documentation that makes results reproducible.

Close view of a robotic fiber placement end effector, its tow spools and servo drives arranged around the compaction roller. — Plate 02 — Automated fiber placement headCourtesy NASA, public domain

An articulated industrial robot arm, its cable loom routed along the upper arm casting, working against a dark composite panel. — Plate 03 — Articulated arm, layup cellCourtesy NASA, public domain

“Validation before deployment, diagnosis after it.”

Documentation that makes results reproducible, and operator training that makes improvements hold across shifts.

02Off the clockShipped

Vaultless

A password manager with no vault.

Passwords are derived on demand from a passphrase and an oracle — an ESP32 device or a printed QR square. Nothing is stored, so there is nothing to sync or leak.

OPRFA two-party oblivious PRF over ristretto255 — the oracle never sees the passphrase.

DLEQA proof and a pinned key reject a swapped or tampered device.

BackupA printed sheet reproduces a device byte-for-byte.

ristretto255OPRFHKDF-SHA256ESP32WebSerial

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Protocol trace

Two-party OPRF

1Hash to groupP = H(passphrase ‖ index)

2BlindB = r·P — indistinguishable from random

3Oracle stampsB′ = k·B, with Y = k·G and a DLEQ proof

4Verify + unblindY checked against the pinned key; S = r⁻¹·B′ = k·P

5ExpandHKDF-SHA256(S) → password, nothing persisted

OPRF-RISTRETTO255-HKDFSHA256 — the oracle never sees the passphrase

Applied cryptography and hardware security are a standing interest.

03Contact

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touch.

For roles, contract work, or a copy of my resume — send a note and I’ll get back to you.

Los Angeles, CAOpen to on-site roles across the greater LA area.

Resume on requestFull work history and references sent directly, not posted here.

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Keepingautomatedproductionrunning.