When I joined Zaiput, I was the first full-time employee and I was hired as a Design Engineer; I had to be very independent and self-reliant. Initially I was tasked with product characterization and analysis of fluidic paths. Eventually, I was assigned the design and development of the multi-stage extraction platform.

As time progressed, I worked on many more projects and grew comfortable with my role; I began to take on more administrative duties. I have now conducted many interviews with engineers and supervised diverse engineering teams. Because of my hard-work and professional development I was eventually promoted to Senior Design Engineer.

Traditional chemical production is performed as batch processes, where a specific quantity of components interact inside a reaction chamber and produce a predetermined amount of products. Alternatively, continuous flow chemistry, or plug flow, or continuous chemistry, performs the mixing and reacting inside tubes. This allows for steady continuous introduction of components and creation of product. Some benefits of flow chemistry are: faster reactions, cleaner product, safer processes and easy scale-up.