About Me

I knew I wanted to do this when I was ten years old. I saw the SR-71 Blackbird at the California Science Center and that was pretty much that. It took a while to get to actual technical work, but Foothill College is where it started. I took a lot of lower-division courses, got into physics, and ended up going deep on aerospace and autonomy aircraft design, aerodynamics, autonomous systems fundamentals. First time the things I'd been interested in since I was a kid felt like something I could actually do.

I transferred to SDSU, did research in a materials lab, and I'm currently working in a robotics lab. My senior design is with NIWC Pacific building a benthic microbial fuel cell lander. I moved through my coursework fast enough that I've spent the back half of my degree in graduate-level classes covering manufacturing, control systems, and autonomy. Working across that many different domains hardware, software, controls, materials has given me the ability to pick things up fast and bring perspectives into a problem that wouldn't be obvious coming from a narrower background. That breadth is something I've built intentionally and think about a lot.

Both of my internships were at startups. At Alef Aero I worked on flight components composite mold making and structural parts. At BurnBot I was given my own project supporting the operations team on electromechanical systems. Across all of it what I've enjoyed most is working on problems that don't have clean answers with teams that are moving fast.

Finishing my degree in December 2026 and looking to land somewhere I can keep learning autonomy, hardware, whatever's is new and unknown.