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About
I'm 20 and studying computer engineering + CS at USC. I build high-throughput + low-latency systems software.
I've worked on edge systems across drone autonomy, rocket engine data acquisition, and AI accelerator firmware, and I'm currently writing Rust systems software as a SWE intern at Tesla.
Some things I've built
Drag around this tetrahedron. Try to count the number of faces.
Experience
- Tesla: systems software for the Powerwall 3 to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. (Rust, Go)
- USC Liquid Propulsion Lab: data acquisition and controls for a liquid bipropellant engine + feed system. (C++)
- SiFly: drone autonomy systems, simulation framework. (Python, C++)
- TandemLaunch: analog AI accelerator infra. (Python, C++)
Random
Things I like
Card/board games, roller coasters, non-Euclidean geometry, the ocean, fire, hiking, reading, and thinking.
still mostly accurate
Quotes I like
- "I've suffered a great many catastrophes in my life. Most of them never happened." - Mark Twain
- "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
- "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." - Emerson M. Pugh
- "Every man carries the whole form of the human condition within him." - Montaigne
- "The rules of go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play go." - Edward Lasker
- "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
- "What I cannot create, I do not understand." - Richard Feynman
- "Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry." - Richard Feynman
- "The details are not the details. They make the design." - Charles Eames
- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth
- "Be so good they can't ignore you." - Steve Martin
- "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein
- "Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
- "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." - Montaigne
- "A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another candle." - Rumi
- "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible." - Albert Einstein
- "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people." - Isaac Newton
- "If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is." - John von Neumann
- "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal
- "What was scattered gathers. What was gathered blows away." - Heraclitus
- "The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore." - Rumi
- "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them." - Carl Friedrich Gauss
- "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success." - Nikola Tesla
Last fiddled: June 2026.