Bridging the
fundamental.

Building systems and exploring ideas that drive societal progress.

Professional Experience

Aug 2025 - May 2026

Rice Eclipse Rocketry

Software Engineer, Mission Control

Engineered full-stack mission control features and flight computer firmware for a high-power rocketry program. Built a dynamic React-based dashboard routing live diagnostics for three distinct engine configurations, alongside deterministic C/FreeRTOS systems processing 1kHz telemetry.

ReactTelemetry SystemsEmbedded CFreeRTOSHardware Integration
Feb 2025 - May 2025

Michigan Hackers

Software Developer

Co-engineered production front-end features for ineed.io, a scalable Next.js platform built to streamline internship tracking. Operating within a 12-person agile environment, contributed to the delivery of secure UI components, dynamic routing, and protected access controls.

Next.jsReactFrontend ArchitectureSecure Access Controls
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

Aspen Music Festival

Professional Cellist

Served as Principal Cellist for the premier fellowship orchestra at the Aspen Music Festival. Brought a focus on deep collaboration, high-stakes performance, and precision execution.[↗ archive]

High-Stakes PerformanceLeadershipPrecision

Projects

LaunchOps

Real-time launch dashboard streaming global flight schedules via Socket.io and Redis Pub/Sub. Built a scheduled polling worker and Redis/MongoDB cache so clients stay off the upstream API.

// React// Node.js// Socket.io// Redis

Asteroid Tracker & Vault

Near-Earth object tracker that catalogs today’s asteroids from NASA’s NeoWs API and lets users save favorites with notes. React UI backed by an Express API and MongoDB, with Clerk JWTs scoping favorites CRUD to each authenticated user.

// React// Express// MongoDB// Clerk

Exoplanet Analytics Dashboard

Astrophysical analytics tool integrating the NASA Exoplanet Archive to visualize log-scale planetary mass vs. orbital period, and OpenAI to generate short speculative climate hypotheses from selected planet parameters.

// Python// Pandas// OpenAI// Streamlit

Rocket Flight Computer

RP2040 flight telemetry firmware that samples GPS, barometric, and IMU data at 20 Hz. Uses non-blocking C++ timing with continuous UART GPS polling, and logs CSV records to an SD card over a dedicated SPI bus.

// C++// RP2040// I2C// SPI// UART

Architecture

Languages
JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C/C++, HTML/CSS
Frontend & UI
React, Tailwind CSS, Figma
Backend & Databases
Node.js, Express.js, Socket.io, MongoDB, Redis, REST APIs
Data & Visualization
Pandas, Plotly, Streamlit
Systems & Tools
Linux (CLI), Git, GitHub

Education

2025 - 2026

Rice University

Graduate Studies
2021 - 2025

University of Michigan

B.S. Computer Science with Astronomy minor | B.M. Cello Performance

Perspectives

Apr 2025

Planetarium Speaker

Student Astronomical Society

Delivered immersive planetarium addresses for the SAS Open House, translating the rigorous mechanics of observational astronomy into an accessible narrative. Guided public audiences through complex astrophysical phenomena, bridging the profound divide between deep space and human understanding.