About

Work Experience

• Engineer, Self Employed Hardware Designer

  Oct, 2024 - Present

  PCB design, rapid prototyping, embedded devevlopment, RF performance testing, and more

  • Developed a number of demos which helped secure startups funding

  • Provided rapid turnaround PCB design and testing services

  • Early-stage hardware consulting, assisting founders in understanding their products' technical requirements

  • Lab specification and equipment recommendations, process initialization and calibration

  • Performance analysis

  • Failure mode analysis

• Research Fellow, Atopile

  Oct, 2024 - Present

  Built hardware using Atopile's domain-specific language for PCB design.

  • Developed MicroMPPT, a 5W autonomous multi-chemistry solar charger with autonomous perturb-and-observe, now distributed by a number of third-party sellers

  • Developed a series of home assistant control panels

  • Developed a high-altitude balloon payload with LoRa telemetry

  • Testing/debugging prototype features

• Research Engineering, Kyocera-AVX

  Apr, 2023 - Aug, 20241 year 4 months

  Kyocera-AVX is an American electronics component manufacturer specializing in passive components such as antennas, MLCCs, tantalum capacitors, supercapacitors, and varistors.

  • Performed teardowns on a wide variety of products and systems on behalf of market research and engineering teams.

  • Reverse-engineered systems to assist product design and market research teams; produced schematics and component models from product samples; evaluated samples and prototype components to assess suitability for given products/applications of interest.

• Founder/Engineer, Machinic Garden LLC

  Oct, 2022 - May, 20237 months

  Contract Engineering and Manufacturing Services, Small-Scale Manufacturing

  • Designed prototype PCBs to client specifications and designed processes to address specialty needs (e.g., copper nanoparticle airbrush coating and electroplating of 3D-printed parts).

  • Acquisition and integration of a wide variety of small-scale manufacturing and test equipment including 3D printers, laser cutters, arc welders, drill presses, oscilloscopes, CNC mills, and reflow ovens.

  • (KiCAD, Fusion360)

  • Managed a shop website and several storefronts such as Etsy and Amazon; managed AdSense; and handled order processing and shipping for an array of products including t-shirts, laser-engraved coasters/signs, 3D prints, and electronics kits.

  • Full-stack Embedded Development (C/C++, MicroPython, Arduino, ATTiny, ARM Cortex-M, STM32, ESP32/8266, Teensy, RP2040, SAMD21/51)

• Electronics Lab Technician, Electrolux

  May, 2022 - Oct, 20226 months

  Electrolux is an Swedish multinational home electronics manufacturer specializing in appliances such as fridges and washing machines.

  • Assisted engineers in PCB and firmware development and validation.

  • Performed IEC/UL compliance testing, evaluated hardware and firmware revisions with LabVIEW, NI embedded PCs, and custom Arduino-based test hardware.

  • Used OrCAD, LabVIEW, National Instruments PXI, and a wide array of electronics lab equipment.

  • Assisted in development of EOL test fixtures

Projects Experience

• Spacebridge High Altitude Balloon PCB

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Designed a high altitude balloon payload for DIY weather/radioilogical surveying with Noisebridge's Spacebridge group

• Micromppt

  Nov, 2024 - Apr, 20255 months

  Low-cost 5W autonomous solar charger with embedded perturb-and-observe setpoint adjustment. Designed for use with Meshtastic and other low power embedded devices. Now sold and distributed by a number of Meshtastic community hardware developers.

• NonHumanScent, Artificial Olfaction

  Oct, 2024 - Present

  Designed electronic olfaction gas composition sensors and developed open-source edge ML electronic olfaction dev kits.

• Cultured Neurons at Frontier Tower

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Developing techniques for Frontier Tower's neurotech floor to read and stimulate cultured neurons, including maskless MEA fabrication process, biocompatible fluid exchange systems, and custom signal acquisition boards

• NFC/LED Chip Implant

  Nov, 2022 - Present

  Self-surgery to install an xSIID NFC/LED chip in the webbing of my left hand

• Voices In The Radio

  Apr, 2024 - Jun, 20242 months

  OS-agnostic GPT fine-tuning toolchain used in my OpenSauce 2024 exhibit. Automates scraping and processing large quantities of text from a variety of source file types, filtering this data with chunk distinctiveness scoring, and automating the fine-tuning process via OpenAI's API. Additionally, provides tools to automate the assignment of fine-tuned models to Discord bots and the assignment of a voice via the Eleven Labs TTS API. Our OpenSauce booth included a terminal to interact with the models we trained this way, which would then speak to the user through a suite of FM radios with the use of an ESP32 and SI4713 FM Transmitter IC.

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