The common thread is learning fast, closing gaps under pressure, and shipping systems that have to work in the real world.
Building the Structural Edge Platform, a live FX trading system with a native C++ engine, a Python execution stack, GPU-assisted research tooling, Docker deployment, and a guarded research-to-live promotion path.
Worked in tightly controlled manufacturing environments where fixture repeatability, contractor management, qualification data, and line reliability mattered more than demos.
Short stint with a very clear assignment: fix a manufacturing blocker that had already turned into expensive stalled inventory.
First employee on the team, responsible for helping move technically ambitious ideas from design into prototypes, studio-ready systems, and short production runs.
Worked part time during senior year and helped push industrial hardware from concept into a production-ready product on a compressed schedule.
Strong base in controls, thermodynamics, numerical methods, and first-principles engineering. That shows up today in how I structure debugging, verification, and systems design.
Senior capstone: part of the team that built a ring-scraper test system for Schlumberger. The project won across the technical judging groups and placed second in presentation.
The current work is software-heavy, but it comes from the same instincts: diagnose the real constraint, build the missing mechanism, and prove the system can hold up in use.