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Competition dragster designed in Inventor, drag-optimized by CFD, and CNC-milled from balsa. Every surface had to be reachable by a 2-axis mill, forcing real trade-offs between the ideal aerodynamic shape and the repeatably manufacturable one.
Slack assistant that turns diagrams into screen-reader-friendly text for blind and low-vision teammates. Reads four sources, images/PDFs via Gemini vision, the Figma REST API, the Lucid MCP server, and Visio .vsdx files parsed straight from their own XML. Multi-workspace OAuth, running under systemd on Oracle Cloud.
Self-built 3 ft fixed-wing aircraft on an ExpressLRS link. CG set by physically relocating components rather than trusting CAD; wing sized by trading loading against aspect ratio; range came from link-budget choices, not raw transmitter power. Framed in defense applications as a UAV payload-delivery platform.
Contractor engagement under a formal SOW to audit and extend a production 3D football play-simulation engine. Built the handoff and pitch ball-flight system, the full stadium environment, team-branding and logo pipelines, three camera modes, and a pre-snap staging sequence.
Custom dash mount for Virginia Tech's BOLT electric dirt bike, taken through a full design cycle. Worked backward from fixed frame mounting points and a hard clearance envelope; FEA gated fabrication so an under-strength geometry failed on the computer, not in a ride test.
Discord bot for running a shared household, expenses, chores, groceries, maintenance scheduling. Tracks pairwise net debt rather than group allocation, so settling up is always a direct person-to-person number. Shipped with its own privacy policy and license.
Rubber-motor free-flight model with Mylar-covered wings and simplex-curve airfoils. No electronics and no way to correct anything after launch, so all trim and stability work had to be finished on the ground, against a torque curve that decays through the entire flight.
Stock-market research and paper-trading system identifying high-probability breakout candidates. Cup & Handle and VCP pattern recognition feeding an ML ranking layer, with market-regime detection, backtesting, and portfolio management. Every threshold lives in one YAML file.
Capstone measuring the tensile strength of 3D-printer filament made from post-consumer PET bottles. The contribution was rigorous measurement, not the build, controlling bottle source, color, draw speed and sample geometry, then defending the methodology live.
GPS-denied position estimation from camera input, feeding an ArduPilot flight controller over MAVLink. Built the failure-detection layer first, as a hard prerequisite, a flight controller must never accept a bad fix, so every estimate is gated before it reaches the vehicle.
Draw an eminent-domain parcel and the app generates a geometrically correct roundabout inside it over real satellite imagery. Radius derives from road width, caps against the parcel boundary, and markings follow the curved centerline rather than radial placement.
Knowledge system where an LLM agent does the bookkeeping, ingesting sources, writing and cross-linking pages, flagging contradictions between old and new claims, and keeping an append-only operations log against a strict documented schema.
Design team building an electric dirt bike. Own components through the full cycle, SolidWorks modeling, FEA validation, 3D-printed fabrication, and physical testing against the vehicle's real packaging constraints.
Contract engagement under a formal SOW to audit and extend a production 3D play-simulation engine. Delivered ball-flight physics, environment and team-branding systems, and camera modes, plus an asset-licensing risk surfaced ahead of delivery rather than after.
Operated a TAG 500 flashpoint analyzer running standardized laboratory testing on consumer-grade alcoholic beverages. Procedure-driven precision-instrumentation work where deviations invalidate results.
Officiate competitive youth and club matches. Fast, consistent decisions under pressure with no option to defer.