i'm an ece grad from uw-madison, currently a test development engineer at cisco where i write hardware test automation for the catalyst 9400 switches and occasionally visit factory floors in vietnam, which is a sentence i never expected to say at 23. starting at georgia tech this fall for my master's. my work has ranged from designing spi controllers and optimizing fpga timing constraints to shipping full-stack web apps with oauth and stripe — i've built everything from autonomous maze-solving robots to a campus-wide digital id system that actually got deployed, because i get restless when projects stay theoretical.

what i keep coming back to is the intersection of hardware and software. there's something satisfying about understanding a system at the silicon level and then using that to build something people actually use. i'm most myself when a problem demands both precision engineering and thoughtful design, which is either a genuine personality trait or a coping mechanism for not being able to pick one discipline. with experience spanning systemverilog to react, i tend to gravitate toward projects that don't fit neatly into one category.

in my free time i'm usually prototyping something i probably won't finish, writing on substack, or exploring how technology can make tedious things genuinely simple. i also make photoshop composites when i need to think with a different part of my brain.