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Sunnyvale, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Raised over $500K in venture financing to build a solar investment platform for retail investorsTransformed our platform from ideas on a whiteboard to a production-ready deployment in less than six months as the sole engineering cofounderPowered our experience with a containerized GraphQL server running in Cloud Run and Functions, integrated with external API providers for verifying identity, linking financial accounts and initiating ACH transfersEnabled insight into customer behavior by creating a marketing and analytics system, tying together Hubspot, Posthog, Google Analytics, Sentry and, growing our waitlist to over 2,500 peopleIntegrated our systems with solar inverter APIs to provide realtime monitoring for us and our clients

Wrote and owned all C++ firmware running on all rocket engines, along with Python GUI and telemetry codeImproved thrust control accuracy and flight fault tolerance through designing, testing and implementing a novel consensus algorithmEnabled SIL testing by creating a Python interface to the FORTRAN engine simulation modelSolved critical reliability questions by managing, querying, and parsing complete history of engine test data stored in AWS database

Greater Denver Area

Eliminated lost packets between the engine and the engine control GUI by multithreading the packet management processes while also introducing a synchronization protocol to reduce cross-talkEnabled automated pre-flight actuator fault detection with firmware to measure actuator torque and powerGenerated and verified engine state-machines by writing a Python library to parse, validate, and transform Excel-defined state machines into C++ engine parameters

Won funding for, then developed a prototype for microsatellite atitude control utilizing magnetic bearingsWrote first drivers for a bare-metal system on a DSP interfaced with an FPGA to run bearing control systems on an open-source motor controller system being developed at WEMPECResearch won 2018 Wisconsin Space Grant Conference poster competition

Chicago, Il

Orchestrated a project enabling customers to share direct links to in-app documents and resources by integrating Brach.io’s deep linking API into the mobile and desktop appOverhauled app in Xamarin and Xcode to reconfigure UI to work on iPhonesFixed login and authentication issues

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Won the Intern Combine Innovation Challenge for solution involving bacteriophage therapyCreated a Java project to parse, search and manage insurance claim dataDesigned reports to present internally, a database to manage existing data, and performed data analytics

Whitewater, Wi

Wrote a neural network library from scratch, with a small team, to analyze stocks and large amounts of text/twitter dataBuilt a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm to find “topics” in large amounts of text Developed a website using PHP and mySQLi for users to score the sentiment of text