I'm a rising junior at UT Austin building things close to the metal. I write production firmware that's shipped to 50 oil-field units, build flight controllers from scratch, develop FPGA firmware for tactical aerospace systems, and contribute to bionic-hand research. I work in C, C++, and Verilog on real hardware — nRF9160, ESP32, RP2040, Xilinx FPGAs — with Zephyr and FreeRTOS.
Experience
full résumé →Southwest Research Institute
May 2026 – PresentStudent Engineer · Tactical Aerospace (Div 16)· San Antonio, TXBuilding FPGA firmware and a bootloader for the F-16 SIU in an ITAR-controlled environment, with a Dockerized GitLab CI/CD build pipeline.
Human Centered Robotics Lab
Jan 2026 – PresentResearch Assistant · UT Austin· Austin, TXC++ firmware on an RP2040 syncing a 16-DOF bionic hand from glove telemetry at 1ms sensor-to-actuation latency.
● try the live simulation →National Oilwell Varco
Jun – Aug 2025Embedded Systems Intern· Houston, TXReplaced $20K/site legacy PLCs with a custom $250 nRF9160 board — 98% cost cut, 50 units on a LoRa mesh to AWS IoT.
Firmware in Motion
Two flagship builds — both live, both from the metal up. Open either for the full interactive simulation.
LiteWing
Custom ESP32 flight controller — a 1ms PID attitude loop written in C++ from the metal up. Steer it with your cursor, or your hand.
Bionic Hand
Webcam hand tracking drives a 16-DOF robotic hand in real time — a browser analog of my HCRL bionic-hand research. Runs entirely on-device.
Other Work
Sundays are for racing.
Diehard Verstappen / Red Bull Racing fan since the start.
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Dream Garage
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A. Vivaldi
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