Directed the rapid development of an end-to-end speech-to-speech Interactive AI to adaptively tailor language learning to the needs of ESL students. Served as an AI technical advisor during the second half of the "AI for Impact: Venture Studio" class, a "Venture Studio format, for-credit course where instructors seed and stimulate high-impact, high-value projects that are attractive for the best engineering, design, and builder students", after which, I cofounded Chia Learning.- Integrated a Large Language Model (LLM) agent into a state-of-the-art dynamic, motion-generated virtual persona with lifelike lip-syncing built using the RealChar open-source architecture for conversational AI.- Accelerated the development of a high-impact MVP, strategically positioning it for seed-stage commercial investment on a global scale.

Spearheaded high-performance web services design and development, optimizing warehouse inventory throughput. Key in strategic planning for large-scale software projects, enhancing cross-team collaboration and system performance.- Boosted system efficiency and resource sustainability, developing C#/.NET micro-services with Redis Caching.- Led system modularization, testing, and database optimization, leveraging Ansible and Kubernetes, improving precision, parallelism, and scalability.- Facilitated strategic planning for software development with Miro for Event Storming and Component Identification, fostering Domain-Driven Design. Improved performance of inventory system at a previously untestable scaling.- Initiated a design decision-making process using Miro, Impact Mapping, and Event Storming under a software architect, decomposing the software monolith implementation of the inventory system into independent components. Outlined an 80% greenfields Domain-Driven Design to modularize essential systems for integration into a micro-service architecture.- Pioneered a comprehensive testing harness integrating the regression testing of high-performance services into an fleet-level simulation environment using Kubernetes/Docker, GitLab, PowerShell, Jenkins, and Ansible, with Kafka for data streaming. Enhanced system robustness and facilitated mature software engineering practices.- Developed a high-performance C#/.NET web service, optimizing warehouse inventory distribution with Redis caching and RabbitMQ event queuing, enhancing efficiency and sustainability.- Optimized Redis database use by high-performance .NET micro-services, increasing precision and throughput at ten-times scaling. Achieved parametric success handling 1M inventory units.

Led robotics software development, focusing on efficient communication, system integration, and user-friendly visualization. Enhanced team collaboration, sped up prototyping, and improved system reliability.- Key in developing a trailer regression model for collision prediction in blind path following with C++, Python, C, LIDAR, Time-of-Flight Cameras. Achieved tighter turns and higher speeds without compromising safety.- Initiated performance review reform for workplace equity, leading to a comprehensive, transparent compensation policy framework.- Managed and mentored three junior engineers, guiding their development and tracking progress with Confluence, Small Improvements, and KPIs.- Improved warehouse robot communication, developing C++ and Python systems for planning and navigation telemetry, integrating RabbitMQ, Java webservices, WebSockets, and ROS for fleet-wide software interoperability.- Implemented a vehicle agnostic robot software system design, converting hundreds of XML-based definitions into hardware-independent, modular subsystems across C++, Python, Java ROS processes. Created three parallelizable prototyping pathways, enhancing collaboration and expediting both hardware and software testing.- Developed intuitive UI visualizations for real-time robot collision zones using C++, Python, ROS, showcasing enhanced messaging fidelity for web applications.- Enhanced a path-following algorithm for warehouse robots in C++ and ROS, achieving initial client implementation.- Designed a system to transform robotic-behavior anomalies into actionable alerts, integrating asynchronous C++, Python, Java ROS processes with RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and a JavaScript web app for event sourcing and playback.

Quickly adapted to the demands of web development, learning and applying a diverse array of web languages and frameworks. Played a key role in transitioning from a monolithic software to a microservice architecture. - Led the successful implementation of OAuth2 authorization for hospital systems and the adoption of microservice JWT authorization in a Java and JavaScript environment. - Contributed significantly to the development of a patient portal application using a stack of Java, JavaScript, and Spring Security. Work involved the technical aspects of creating single-page web applications, servers, and databases, and the implementation of authentication and authorization APIs in an enterprise system. - Contributed to the development of a JavaScript patient portal application with a Backbone.js frontend and Java Enterprise backend, significantly improving patient access to their medical records.

-Conducted a US Air Force sponsored project to deploy multiple micro-autonomous vehicles for parallel telemetry collection-Manufactured carbon fiber wings designed in SolidWorks for a remote control/ autonomous flying model-Developed Paparazzi software for hardware drivers and control loops – written in C, xml, and Ocaml-Developed wind tunnel tests for fuselage bodies and flight tests for autopilot system-Presented deliverable to Air Force and Lincoln Lab – flying autonomous prototype

-Designed a software system for autonomous control of a quadrocopter-Developed a software interface for iPhone control

-Designed and developed a telemetry protocol for autonomous communication-Designed an innovative software architecture for ground station path planning-Presented a working telemetry system at the annual AUVSI conference for autonomous systems-Designed an encryption based boot loader-Integrated low-level hardware and software systems

-Investigated semiconductor fabrication and manufacturing methods, system testing, and IC failures-Learned about semiconductor fabrication by inspected for different types of defects and constructing testing systems-Implemented experimental methods to provide faster, more accurate ASIC testing