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- Status
- Live
- Address
- career-forge.life
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- Zigrawbohnbawerick Pty Ltd
Pedro De Paiva. Engineer and founder.
I'm a mechanical engineer and the founder of Zigrawbohnbawerick Pty Ltd. I build software products for problems I know firsthand, and I make CAD tools free under my own name.
- Drawn by
- Pedro De Paiva
- Base
- Perth, WA
- Trained
- Mechanical engineering
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Company
- Zigrawbohnbawerick Pty Ltd
- Sheet
- 1 of 6
Software products
Bin space Working name
Neighbours rent spare room in their wheelie bins on bin night.
- Status
- In development
- Links
- None yet
The round
A small phone app that runs a house-cleaning business's week of houses and crew.
- Status
- In development
- Links
- None yet
Free and open source
CAD kernels should be public. Geometry belongs to everyone.
SolidDraft
A SolidWorks-style CAD app written in pure Rust. The source opens soon.
- Status
- Open source soon
- Written in
- Rust
Catallax
The open geometry kernel under SolidDraft. MIT-licensed and free for everyone.
- Licence
- MIT
From bill of materials to record book
Engineered equipment ships with a Manufacturer's Record Book: a dossier of material certificates, weld records and tests. Gathering those documents while tracking quotes, purchase orders and changing parts often means spreadsheets, email and loose PDFs. I built the MRB Platform to keep that chain together and show missing documents before handover.
- STATION 01
Sync parts
Bring the bill of materials in from CAD and reconcile changes as the design evolves.
- STATION 02
Work the parts
Group parts and select lines for requests for quote.
- STATION 03
Quote and buy
Compare supplier quotes and issue purchase orders.
- STATION 04
Track and compile
Check received documents against requirements and compile a bookmarked PDF binder.
- Bill of materials
- C# / .NET 10 · Nuxt 4 / Vue 3 · PostgreSQL · self-hosted Supabase · Hangfire · Docker Compose
- Source
- Private repository
Eight years of real engineering behind the software.
DNV-certified subsea deployment frame
Designed and certified a welded structural frame for deploying offshore intervention tooling: a full DNV-ST-E273 (2.7-3) package with structural FEA, fatigue and lifting assessment, weld design, and third-party approval.
150-tonne hydraulic jacking tool
A complete mechanical and hydraulic system for subsea wellhead-cap ejection. 150 t capacity, FEA-validated, with DNV lifting studies and the bolted-joint and seal-gland procedures I authored as the company standard. It performed flawlessly in the field.
$100M+ dust-extraction programme
As lead designer for Tier-1 mining operators, I delivered large-scale dust-extraction plants. The largest was a 7-storey steel structure with 60+ t of ductwork routed from laser-scanned point clouds through a live mine site. I led a team of three from concept to fabrication drawings.
At every stop I automated the grind: a parametric dust-collector that took design from weeks to hours, and an Excel/VBA procurement-and-MRB system that saved ~$200k a year. That experience still informs what I build.
A mechanical engineer who learned to ship software.
| Rev | Description |
|---|---|
| A | Eight years designing real equipment: subsea tooling, industrial plants, mining structures. |
| B | Learned to ship software. Designed and built the MRB Platform solo, end to end. |
| C | Founded Zigrawbohnbawerick Pty Ltd. Builds products there and keeps SolidDraft and Catallax free under his own name. |
I'm a mechanical engineer who got tired of watching solid engineering work get strangled by bureaucracy, endless reviews, and the unrelenting, indiscriminate use of Excel spreadsheets.
So in the age of AI, I "learned" how to build it myself. I couldn't have told you what a REST endpoint was a couple of months ago, but I sure as hell can get 20 agents competing for the best way to explain it like I'm 12, then ruthlessly steer myself toward grounded, production-ready decisions. Full-stack, end-to-end: domain model and architecture all the way through CI/CD pipelines and Docker deployments.
Look around — do I look like I have time to learn anything about UX design and logos? I have absolutely no idea what color matches whatever emotion. But if it quacks like a duck, and solves a real problem, it goes in the pond. The MRB Platform was one result: a production-shaped system I designed and built solo, the same kind of integrated internal tool a project-based engineering business actually needs.
Eight years designing real equipment (subsea tooling, industrial plants, mining structures) taught me where software can help. Now I build products through Zigrawbohnbawerick Pty Ltd and keep SolidDraft and Catallax free under my own name.