Founder & President @ WashU Satellite
- Founded and led 40-person team, raised $200k from engineering school
- Lead writer of NASA CSLI proposal for 3U CubeSat optical telescope
- Presented at ESE Winter Research Symposium and CubeSat Developers Workshop
About
At WashU, I majored in Electrical and Systems Engineering with a minor in CS. I was a Langsdorf Scholar and McKelvey Build Fellow.
I founded WashU Satellite, a 40-person team building research balloons and satellites. We raised $200k in funding and collaborated with Physics and EE professors on cutting-edge space research.
Experience
Electrical Engineering Intern @ Intramotev
- Designed and tested PCBs using KiCAD and Autodesk Eagle
- Developed Simulink test interfaces for CAN relay boxes
- Designed low-level architecture for emergency stop control systems
Hardware Engineering Intern @ MARSfarm
- Built 700-line Python script interfacing with AWS IoT Core via WebSocket
- Shrunk firmware from 64GB to 7GB, saving $6,000 and 8x faster provisioning
Race Engineer · Electronics · Machinist @ WashU FSAE
- Machined 100+ parts to ±0.0005" tolerance on manual and CNC mills
- Relocated central electronics unit, saving 6ft of wiring
Projects
CubeSat VECTOR
3U CubeSat with high-performance optical telescope. NASA CSLI proposal lead writer. Selected for University Nanosatellite Program with $50k funding.
Balloon ADAPT
High-altitude gamma ray telescope over Antarctica. Re-architected FPGA designs using C++ high-level synthesis at WashU's Stream Based Supercomputing Lab.
Telescope AIRIS
Balloon-mounted optical telescope for gamma ray burst afterglow imaging. Winner of Outstanding Impact Award for research paper.
Rocketry Astral Orbit
Founded high school rocketry team. Won NASA TechRise competition—designed and flew scientific experiment on a sounding rocket. Reduced TARC altitude error from 15% to 1%.
Record Block Overhang
Guinness World Record holder. Built a Python simulation to maximize block overhang, reaching 1.93 meters off the table.