Lifelong autodidact, bread baker, and explorer.
I recently graduated from UCSC with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering which was where I developed a love for problem solving, circuit design, hardware debugging, programming, and an eagerness to learn. To ensure a more sustainable future for everyone, I'm committed to driving eco-friendly solutions which is why I'm open to employment opportunities in the EV, NewSpace, autonomous vehicle, as well as renewable energy industries anywhere on the West Coast. When not working on cool projects, you can find me baking sourdough boule in the kitchen 🍞, hiking local trails 🥾, or carving bowls at the skate park 🛹!
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Education
Experience
Application Engineer
Nov 2023 - Present
Electric vehicle supply equipment as well as load management system R&D, hardware testing, application support, and technical documentation management.
Asset Health & Performance Center Engineer Intern
Jun 2021 - Sep 2021
Utilized GIS and SQL to provide informative data on advanced line sensor technology installments across Northern California's electric grid. Leveraged root cause analysis, data ETL on Palantir Foundry, and soft skills to cross-functionally coordinate with multiple teams on compiling a quarterly voltage curtailment report on solar powered line sensor units. Efforts to ensure that these line sensor units operate smoothly help mitigate and prevent wildfires in Northern California.
Projects
Bike Speedometer
Designed, prototyped, and built a bike speedometer from scratch using an Arduino (MCU), serial LCD, reed switch, magnet, and 9V battery supply. Calibrated the reed switch and built the bike speedometer's state machine by programming the MCU in C++. On the hardware side, the electronic interconnect between the LCD and MCU was soldered on a perfboard and then packaged insided a 3D printed enclosure. The speedometer successfully shows how fast you go in MPH based on the time it takes for the bike's front wheel to make one revolution.
Mult-Device Wireless Charger
Designed, prototyped, and built a Qi standard multi-device wireless charger for my senior capstone at UCSC. The charger can support up to 4 devices at the same time, features an intuitive charging indicator that displays the device(s) state of charge on an LCD, and comes with an efficient heat management system that ensures it can run under full load without over heating for long periods of time. With a max load (4 devices charging), the wireless charger has a decent charge rate of 1% per minute. Used SolidWorks, Ansys Mechanical, UltiMaker, 3D printing, OrCAD Capture, and Allegro PCB Editor.
Ground Bounce Test Circuit PCB
Developed a PCB test circuit that's able to experimentally observe the electrical phenomena of ground bounce: a deleterious effect where internal ground references of ICs shift which leads to glitches when logic devices switch states. Designed the circuit schematic using OrCAD Capture, PCB layout wih Allegro PCB Editor, and milled the PCB by using an M60 LPKF.
FPGA Flappy Birds Game
Designed and implemented a “Flappy Bird” game by using the Basys3 FPGA board with a VGA monitor connected to it. The game involves getting a ball to make it through the randomized gaps between walls moving towards it and each time it successfully does, the player’s score increases. The goal was to make this a synchronous game with the system clock while only using positive edge-triggered flip-flops, assign statements, comparison operators, arithmetic operators, and mux statements in Verilog.
Boolepathy
Worked on NeuroTechSC Club's Hardware Team and built a synthetic telepathy device with a silent-speech interface that takes in EMG signals from the jawline area and predicts if the user is thinking 'yes' of 'no' with 90% accuracy. We entered this project into the 2020 NeuroTechX Student Clubs Competition and placed 1st in the U.S.! Worked with Fusion 360 CAD to design the headset and OpenBCI for sampling EMG signals.
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