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Hawthorne, California, US

Developing commercial rovers to serve lunar and martian surface development.

San Francisco, California, US

- Led the computer vision team through the development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of key features enabling a fleet of fully autonomous excavators to perform tasks such as excavation, trenching, and pile driving.- Completed projects including a safety-critical pedestrian detection system, sensor selection/integration/calibration, camera-LIDAR.

San Francisco, California, US

Rio Rancho, New Mexico, US

- Volunteered part time providing technical advice on sensor selection and software design for a lunar ice mining robot for a NASA Break the Ice Challenge Phase II proposal, and oversaw the subsequent development of the prototype.

- Prototyped features including car crash detection, human body pose estimation, facial expression classification.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

- Implemented mapping, localization, path planning, and navigation algorithms for autonomous robot vacuum cleaners equipped with 2D LIDAR, IMUs, and time-of-flight proximity sensors.- Worked in a Linux environment using C++, ROS/RViz, Boost, Google Test, and Cmake.

- Developed the majority of the C++/ROS software stack for a washing machine-sized off-road robot equipped with GPS, IMU, LIDAR and monocular cameras.- Published master’s thesis on deep-learning-based traversability analysis where a vision model was trained on synthetic data generation from a simulated robot’s experiences traversing virtual terrain.A.

- Helping customers increase cybersecurity, back end development in Python and Ruby.

- Developed a prototype of a digital commodities trading and hedging platform. Built by a small team using Polymer, the Beego framework, Golang, and a MongoDB database.- Responsible for the Golang back end logic and MongoDB integration.

- Completed the C++ development of a CIP motion drive simulator on a VxWorks real-time embedded system.

- Collaborated on the C++ development, maintenance, and testing of Rockwell Automation’s Studio 5000 Logix Designer product.- Developed an automated test runner using Jenkins, PowerShell, and batch files.- Worked with a cross-functional team to create a physical game of pong for Rockwell recruiters to demo at university career fairs.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Master’S Degree, Computer Science