Member of Technical Staff · Prodex Labs
Apr 2026 — PresentCurrent
MIT · MechE × CS (AI) · Cambridge, MA
Ayden Soderblom
ans7@mit.edu
Member of Technical Staff at Prodex Labs.
About
Mechanical engineer, software engineer — same person.
I study mechanical engineering and computer science (AI) at MIT, where I lead docking-system research at the ESL AeroAstro lab. My work covers the whole machine: trade-space analysis and CAD, welded and machined hardware, embedded perception, and the software stack above it. Outside the lab I’m an Eagle Scout (2024), I ran the Boston Marathon in 2025 and 2026 for Hospitality Homes, I rep outdoor gear as a content creator on Instagram, and I once rebuilt a totaled car — then drove it across the country.
- 5.0 / 5.0
- GPA at MIT
- $46.3k
- raised for Hospitality Homes
- 15,000 mi
- driven in a car I rebuilt
- SolidWorks
- Creo
- Fusion 360
- OnShape
- Python
- TypeScript
- OpenCV
- YOLOv8
- Kubernetes
- LLM tooling
- Welding
- CNC machining
Experience
Where I’ve worked
Founder · Stealth Startup
Sep 2025 — PresentCurrent
Venture · TQ Ventures
Apr 2026 — PresentCurrent
Lead Engineer · ESL AeroAstro, MIT
2025 — PresentCurrent
Researcher · ESL AeroAstro, MIT
2023 — 2025
Published research
Peer-reviewed, first author
ASME OMAE 2025 · Vancouver
Predictive Thermal Digital Twin Model for a Renewably Powered Offshore AUV Servicing Platform
Soderblom, A., Paek, S.W., Bhattiprolu, A., de Weck, O.L.
Read the paperdoi.org/10.1115/OMAE2025-152581
In the pipeline: extending the thermal digital-twin work for journal submission.
Projects
Built with my own hands, mostly
Verdict — YHack 2026
2026Hackathon project that predicts how a short-form video lands before you post it: builds synthetic audience personas from market research, then runs LLM-simulated reactions over the clip.
- LLMs
- Synthetic personas
- Hackathon
Polymarket Smart-Follower
2026Full-stack trading system that tracks high-performing Polymarket wallets, paper-trades strategies in a simulator, and executes live — with a monitoring dashboard over the whole loop.
- Trading
- Full-stack
- Automation
Kalshi Market-Making Bot
2026Python market maker quoting two-sided markets over Kalshi’s WebSocket API, capturing the bid–ask spread.
- Python
- WebSockets
- Trading
RealSense D455 Depth Vision
2025YOLO + depth fusion for per-object distance, ByteTrack tracking, H.264 streaming, and 3D mapping.
- OpenCV
- YOLO
- ByteTrack
Rebuilt Totaled Car
2025Restored a totaled car to road-worthy, then proved it on a 15,000-mile cross-country trip.
- Automotive
- Fabrication
Go-Kart
2022 — 23Welded the frame; designed the brakes, steering, and wheel linkages; tuned the engine from 3k to 9k RPM.
- Welding
- Design
- Engines
Contact
Get in touch
Happy to talk about marine robotics, autonomy, or software — or anything worth building.