About Me

I was born in Atlanta to two Georgia Tech engineering alumni. If there was one sentence that could describe me as a person, it would be that. From the wee age of 0, I was exposed to engineering and it certainly stuck with me. My mom has a bachelor's in civil engineering and my dad a bachelor's in computer engineering. While I have definitely taken after my dad more education-wise, both of my parents were influential in my development as an engineer. I was exposed to computers and computer engineering pretty fast when my dad would fix and upgrade our home computer himself. According to him, he had been playing with computer hardware since he was a kid when he upgraded his parents' home computer's ram without telling them because he wanted to play newer games.

I like building things. If I cant build something myself I want to take it apart and put it back together to understand how it works.

I graduated from Chamblee Charter High School in Chamblee, Georgia with 3.98 GPA and several AP classes under my belt. My time in high school was spent mostly on homework and music. I was an active bassoon player in school orchestras and youth orchestras around Atlanta including the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Beginning in second grade with long division, I took a strong liking to math and soon to science as well. Most likely thanks to my parents, I really enjoyed being able to apply logic and math to every day situations and problems. My subjects in middle and high school were "applied math." Chemistry was the first good example of this in high school. Everything was just applying math to physical situations. I realized in junior year AP Physics that physics itself was just applied math and that everything else was just applied physics. I decided then and there that I wanted to be a physics major. I though that being a physicist would allow me to do anything through application.

Although most of my freetime nowadays is spent at the library, I try to get out and ride my electric skateboard when I can. I got into electric skateboarding at the beginning of my freshman year after pulling the trigger on a board for campus commuting. Having never skated before, it was somewhat of a risk, but I have quickly grown to love it. I grew out of my starting board pretty fast and decided to build my own in December of 2020. The week I got it working I bombed a hill to test the top speed and crashed hard, which led to a few more months of trouble shooting and modifying to make it more stable. I was finally able to call it done in around June and I have been riding it ever since. I still have to fix it from time to time when a bolt falls off while riding or the Bluetooth module shakes loose causing the remote to disconnect mid-ride. Whats fun without a little risk, right?

I also enjoy building and modifying mechanical keyboards. I have built 13 personal keyboards and 3 client keyboards at this point. I really like doing things myself. Whether it be a skateboard or a keyboard, I find much more satisfaction in taking a week or a month to do something myself vs just buying it. When I understand how something works, I have a greater appreciation for that thing.

• Programming: Python, HTML, C, C++, Mips, Arduino C

• Platforms: Windows

• Hardware: Arduino, ARM mbed microcontroller, FPGAs, oscilloscope, soldering

• Software: NI LabVIEW, Fusion 360, Microsoft Office Suite, Intel Quartus

• Communication: Design proposals, technical reports, instruction manuals, presentations (large and small audiences)

• Languages: English (native), German (conversational)