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CMU M.S. ECE
Deployed RF matcher
Ford Motor Company
Delivered EV hardware integration across three vehicle programs ahead of schedule, resolving voltage-drop issues and specification gaps across 50+ underbody requirements while driving component cost optimization—earning a return offer from Ford’s eBeam group.
CMU Hacker Fab
Built an open-source automated RF matcher for $636 that sustains ~1.2 VSWR at 95W forward power for 60+ minute depositions, using real-time gradient descent on a Teensy 4.1 to drive air-variable capacitors via a shielded custom PCB.
Carnegie Mellon University
Guide 60+ students through preemptive RTOS debugging with GDB and OpenOCD, STM32 register-level firmware and serial peripherals, and end-to-end autonomous vehicle bring-up from 2-layer PCB reviews through PID tuning and assembly.
Ford Motor Company
Resolved a 5.8V drop across an EV control unit through schematic review and corrective hardware proposals, cleared 10+ specification misalignments across three programs auditing 50+ requirements, and delivered a 5% cost reduction on key underbody components.
Carnegie Mellon
Taught weekly labs for 100+ undergraduates in introductory ECE, covering breadboard circuit design, lab instrumentation, structured debugging workflows, and hands-on troubleshooting.
SATA Inc.
Built a VAN’s RV-12 with Southern Arizona Teen Aviation over 200+ hours, leading airframe assembly, systems installation, and FAA-compliant avionics integration as a core build-team contributor.
STM32 vehicle stack with a custom RTOS, ARMv7-M boot code, preemptive scheduling, PID speed control, UART telemetry, and LCD state updates.
Autonomous bottle-collection robot with Raspberry Pi vision, Arduino motor control, UART command protocol, custom power delivery, and arm actuation.
ESP32-S3 smart display in a custom Kirby enclosure with touch UI, weather, alarms, timers, minigame screens, Wi-Fi, and I2S audio.
