About Ethan

Before founding Cost Down Engineering, I spent five years as a mechanical design engineer at Tesla, where I brought hundreds of parts from concept to production across every consumer vehicle platform.

Growing up in Canada with a Chinese mother and Canadian father drew me to Asia. Relocating to Singapore allows me to learn directly from the local manufacturing culture while bringing Silicon Valley-standard high-volume design methodology to the region.

My engineering journey spans solar-powered infrastructure for the Toronto Transit Commission, robotics research at the Technical University of Munich, and a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, where I graduated top of my class and brought my capstone project to Canada's largest tech incubator.

I'm a native English speaker actively improving my Mandarin to communicate directly with factory teams across Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia.