Building things that live
somewhere between code and hardware
CS Student · Builder · Perpetual Tinkerer
I'm a Computer Science student at Virginia Tech (Math minor, Phi Beta Kappa) who likes projects that don't stay on one side of the software/hardware line — from founding a solar-thermal energy team to shipping AI features for a fintech startup. When I'm not debugging something, I'm probably training for a marathon or overengineering a hackathon idea.
A Few Fun Facts
The resume-adjacent trivia that doesn't fit anywhere else.
VA State Champion in SkillsUSA Programming (2023) — placed 4th nationally.
Worked at HogBack for nearly two years as a paintball referee and gun technician.
Ran my own furniture-flipping business online in high school — before I ever wrote code professionally.
Spoke at the Sines Institute's "Uncommon Table" speaker series.
Currently training for the Richmond Marathon — 26.2 miles, first time.
Built an AI boxing coach at VTHacks that judges your jabs in real time.
Tutor high schoolers in STEM & English on the side — my own little venture.
Served as SGA Senator and Desi Club President at NOVA.
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA — graduating May 2026
B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics
Four research groups, a self-founded engineering team, and coursework running from algorithm design through machine learning — the full academic history is here. Before Virginia Tech, I was an SGA Senator and Desi Club President at NOVA, graduating as an honors student from W.T. Woodson HS.
- Algorithm Design
- Machine Learning
- Quantum Computing
- Information Retrieval Research
- Document Understanding Research
What I've Been Up To
A team I founded, an internship, an engineering role, and coursework — each card says which is which.
Project EMBER
The only student-led solar-thermal energy design team at Virginia Tech. Built a prototype converting ~60% of incident energy to useful heat, with a materials simulator and an autonomous telemetry feedback loop.
Finnimo
Full-stack financial planning app — onboarding, dashboards, and account aggregation, plus a RAG-backed advice layer and an internal MCP server for agentic features.
SMART
Apple Vision Pro interface for smart-home control — cut device activation from ~30s to ~10s and built an AR automation builder that sped up setup by 30%.
Systems Programming
A custom terminal, a threadpool, and a Linux web server — all written in C to understand what's actually happening underneath the abstractions.
Let's Build Something
Always up for talking about solar tech, agentic AI, or whatever weird hackathon idea comes next.