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Raven Resonance is building fashionable augmented reality glasses for all-day wear, plus a custom operating system that enables intuitive interactions with apps and physical objects.

Redwood City, California, US

Worked with Curio as their first hardware engineer to architect the embedded system for an AI-powered plush toy, build the first prototypes with the team, and help prepare the device for mass production.Helped on a contract basis before founding my next startup.* Close collaboration with CM in China. Traveled there and worked in-person during the design.

Culver City, California, US

AR technology and 3D creator tools. Led engineering on 5 projects:1. Constellation: real-time data model with networked reconciliation and logic execution. (Rust)2. SDK: multi-user AR with localization on mobile, Magic Leap, Hololens. Paying enterprise clients. (C/C++, Typescript, C#, Kubernetes)3. Vortex: mobile 3D animation software. (C#)4. Movieoke: 3D.

Culver City, California, US

Teleportal began as WiTag, an AR laser tag game I created as a side project during high school. The networking engine and AR client libraries from WiTag formed the initial technology for Teleportal.In 2017, I obtained pre-seed investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners to bring the app to market (45k+ downloads and featured on the front page of the iOS.

San Francisco, CA, US

Founded by technology entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel in 2011, the Thiel Fellowship is a program for young people who want to build new things. Thiel Fellows skip or stop out of college to receive a $100,000 grant and support from the Thiel Foundation’s network of founders, investors, and scientists.

Mountain View, California, US

Built R&D prototypes with a focus on software, embedded devices, and robotics in the Think Tank Team at Samsung Research America.Brought one of my long-term ideas into the research lab & built a full working prototype including software, electronics, and machine learning frameworks, in under 3 months.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Human-computer interaction for wearable devices under Dr. Thad Starner at the Contextual Computing Group.- Developed software for sparse order-picking studies on Magic Leap hardware.- Ran user studies with participants using the Magic Leap AR headset.- Contributed to the research paper.

Atlanta, GA, US

Contributed to the development of software tools used during HackGT events, and helped organize computer science outreach programs.HexLabs (formerly HackGT) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting computer science programs at Georgia Tech, local high schools, and beyond.

Culver City, US

Wrote and taught evolving software development courses to students, and developed AR/VR apps and content for educational purposes.

CarrotCorp is a research and development company that explores emerging technologies and prototypes 3D printing systems.

Chicago, Illinois, US

- Embedded software and hardware for Inventables CNC machines.- Real-time custom networking code, web portal, and shell scripts.- Remote collaboration with the software engineering team in Chicago.