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Quentin M.QM

Quentin M.

Mechanical Design Engineer | Product Design

€425/day
2 projects
Toulouse, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Quentin

My website, which also serves as a portfolio: bymeqa.io

Looking for someone to program a microcontroller or integrate a connected camera? That's not me!
However, if you need an engineer who knows how to design **effective mechanical systems**, well thought out, and tailored for manufacturing: you've come to the right place.

Arts et Métiersgraduate, and now a mechanical design engineer for 10 years, I have supported very diverse projects, from the initial sketches to production — always with the same requirements: simplicity, efficiency, robustness.

I co-founded a startup in food tech, where I led a team of 15 engineers for 4 years. We designed a complex and innovative machine from scratch. There, I learned to evolve sometimes very ambitious ideas into reliable, in-house manufactured systems, by relentlessly iterating between design, prototyping, testing, and production.

My approach: start from real usage, delve into needs, imagine several options, and push the best one to its simplest form — but always functional, aesthetic, and realistic to manufacture.

🧠 I love thinking "out of the box", finding the right joint, the right assembly, the right detail that changes everything.
👥 Working in a team is a strength and a pleasure for me: I know how to integrate into an organization, challenge an idea, and take ownership of a project from A to Z.
📽️ And since mechanics fascinates me beyond work, I even launched a YouTube channel where I model and talk about historical mechanisms.

➡️ Skills: mechanical design, welded metal, prototyping, product design, Fusion 360, Blender, realistic rendering, manufacturing files, technical project management.

Need to design a concrete, innovative, and mechanically coherent product? Write to me, I'll be happy to discuss it.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Toulouse (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Fairme
    Co-founder & Technical Director
    AGRICULTURE
    August 2020 - April 2024 (3 years and 8 months)
    Grenoble, France
    As technical director and co-founder, I led the technical development of Fairme, an innovative industrial startup in the food tech sector. I was responsible for a team of 15 engineers, covering the entire development cycle of a complex machine.

    My main responsibilities:
    • **Interface between vision and feasibility**: transforming (sometimes wild) founder ideas into clear, realistic, and industrializable technical concepts.
    • **Team Leadership**: supervising, coordinating, and developing the skills of a multidisciplinary team of 15 engineers (mechanical, production, R&D…).
    • **Product Invention and Design**: imagining, modeling, and iterating on dozens of functional mechanical modules, designed for workshop production.
    • **Project Management**: managing the complete development — from the initial idea to the prototype, and finally to in-house production.
    • **Methodology and Technical Culture**: implementing an effective work framework balancing agility, rigor, and field testing culture.

    This experience gave me a comprehensive view of industrial product development: invention, mechanical design, teamwork, project management, manufacturing, and scaling.
    Industrial Design Design Product Design Project Management Fusion 360
  • HiTech Radiators
    Mechanical Design Engineer
    MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
    June 2017 - November 2018 (1 year and 6 months)
    Brisbane, Australia
    Mechanical design of radiators for mining equipment (radiators several meters high), projects reaching €300k and with very short deadlines. Intense use of CAD (Fusion 360 and SolidWorks), and significant reverse engineering.
    Design Fusion 360 SolidWorks Reverse Engineering CAD
  • TDM
    Mechanical Design Engineer for Embedded Systems | Project Manager
    AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
    January 2019 - January 2021 (2 years)
    Mérignac, France
    Project manager for embedded systems. Mechanical engineering of electronic enclosures for aeronautics, aerospace, and military applications. Significant use of CAD as many components have very long lead times (several tens of weeks), leaving no room for error.
    Fusion 360 Design CAD Technical Drawing

Reviews

5.0

Out of 2 ratings

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Emma

ATELIER DES TROIS MONDES

Reviewed on 1/27/2022

Quentin completed his mission with great professionalism. Very attentive and good at advising, he helped us materialize the beginnings of a project that was important to us. We will not hesitate to use his services again if the need arises. Thank you Quentin!
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Romain

Sparklight

Reviewed on 2/10/2020

Mission completed with speed and efficiency, Quentin adapted to the technical and aesthetic constraints desired. We will not hesitate to use his services again.

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Education

  • Engineering Degree
    Arts et Métiers
    2015
  • Master of Engineering Science, Mechanical Engineering
    The University of Queensland (UQ)
    2016

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