September 2022 - Present

Northwestern Formula Racing

Data Acquisition Lead

June 2024 - Present

• Spearheaded nine technical projects focused on metric acquisition and analysis in a Formula-style racecar, with a focus on real-time embedded systems development in C/C++ and cross-platform desktop applications in Python.
• Built a continuous integration pipeline with GitHub workflows to ensure firmware configurations meet defined standards during code pushes and hardware deployment, enabling automated validation and minimizing development errors.
• Partnered with Prof. Ilya Mickelson to design an embedded systems curriculum, developing a Django-based website to host lectures, lab materials, and writeups, supporting the education of 25+ new electrical team members.
• Developed CAN-CAN, a Unity game that integrates with a custom game controller hub, designed to complement the curriculum's final project, where students build their own game controllers using the skills learned throughout the course.

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Wireless Telemetry Project Lead

June 2023 - June 2024

• Led the development of a live data analysis system using radio-based data transmission for NU's Formula Racecar.
• Engineered a custom wireless protocol based on LoRa for dependable real-time data transmission in a wireless telemetry system, achieving a 98.9% packet success rate over a 500m range with LoRa’s maximum data rate.
• Implemented a serialization library in C++ to maximize data throughput over radio and standardize car records with a custom compact binary encoding protocol, reducing data frame size by 95% compared to JSON.
• Led and educated new members on the principles of hardware and software engineering with Eagle, Git, and C++.

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Embedded Engineer

September 2022 - June 2023

• Manufactured a compact PCB with Eagle for NU's Formula Racecar to capture temperature and coolant metrics.
• Built firmware in C++ to read relevant sensor data and send data throughout the car via CAN communication protocol.
• Presented design decisions for design review with the Chief Electrical Engineer to ensure optimal sensor performance.
• Constructed C++ header libraries to allow for easy reading of hall-effect and thermistor-based sensors through an object-oriented API, regardless of hardware configuration, and distributed for use across Formula's Data Acquisition Team.

June 2024 - Present

Northwestern University: Buffett Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Unity Developer

• Collaborating with Ozge Samanci to develop an interactive 3D artwork in Unity, blending real-time voice interaction and dynamic environmental effects to create an immersive, responsive user experience.
• Engineered a GPU-instanced text renderer in Unity, capable of displaying millions of characters at once, with flocking algorithms driving real-time, snake-like text distortion and animation for dynamic visual effects at 100+ frames per second on an RTX 3060.
• Implemented a custom graphics pipeline within Unity's Universal Render Pipeline, utilizing compute shaders and advanced post-processing techniques such as anisotropic Kuwahara filtering to achieve a visually distinctive watercolor art style.

September 2023 - June 2024

Northwestern's Center for Connected Learning

Full-Stack Web Developer

• Developed Morfli, a student-driven learning platform in Django, used by over 300 students to teach NU’s Material Science courses.
• Partnered with PhD student Jacob Kelter to integrate a Google Docs-inspired commenting system into Morfli, fostering improved student-instructor communication and deepening engagement with learning materials.
• Built web-based curriculum editing tools in Django, empowering professors to tailor their courses for optimized instruction.
• Leveraged Django's ORM API to implement polymorphic comment models, creating a scalable backend that efficiently handles image comments, text comments, and threaded replies, while reducing complexity.

June 2023 - October 2023

Overture Games

Full-Stack Game Engineer

• Created Intervallic, a commercial music game released on Steam, designed to alleviate burnout in music students.
• Developed a level-generator tool, cutting level creation time from 3 hours to just 15 minutes, saving over 100 hours of work.
• Implemented a hierarchical finite state machine (HFSM) in C# for game state management, accompanied by a GUI-based state debugger, enabling the identification and resolution of 23 bugs and glitches related to level pausing and resetting.
• Established a Level QA process, leading a team-wide effort to ensure levels were fair, balanced, and frustration-free before release.
• Employed techniques such as reflection and object-oriented design patterns to deploy modular backend systems.