About

One stack, two domains: electric vehicles and autonomous aircraft.

I'm a senior honors student at Santa Clara University, graduating in 2027 with a double major in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and a 3.7 GPA. I learn by building the full stack, schematic to PCB to firmware to mechanical to control, and shipping the result to a hard deadline.

Since 2023 I've owned the high-voltage electrical stack on SCU's Formula SAE electric cars: programming the Orion BMS 2 on a ~420 V accumulator, designing and reviewing shutdown, precharge, and IMD safety circuits, architecting the vehicle CAN network, and soldering a 140+ thermistor harness whose placement strategy improved measurement accuracy by roughly 50 percent. At STMicroelectronics I debugged a customer's traction motor inverter with Lauterbach JTAG hardware, diagnosed and fixed DC bus instability, and built an STM32 proximity-sensing system end to end.

Raven is where it converges. It's a tilt-rotor eVTOL I designed and printed in carbon-fiber composite, the first airframe of a planned 4-drone autonomous swarm, and the flagship hardware of the stealth AI hardware startup I founded. FAA Part 107 certification is in progress.

Discipline
EE + ME, Honors
Focus
Power, firmware, autonomy
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Availability
Summer 2027 / FT 2027

02 / The thesis

The same stack that ships a 400-volt race car flies an autonomous aircraft.

Cells, busbars, BMS, motor drives, CAN, sensor chains, vehicle control. The work I do on FSAE tractive systems and traction inverters at STMicroelectronics is the same engineering that powers eVTOL propulsion, swarm coordination, and aerospace-grade power electronics. Raven is the proof: an 8-stage roadmap from a single tilt-rotor airframe to a 4-drone autonomous swarm.

A

Power electronics

420 V / 504 V packs, BMS, charging, precharge, IMD

B

Motor control

Inverter debug, PWM, space-vector modulation

C

Embedded firmware

STM32, CAN, Lauterbach JTAG, full analog signal chains

D

Systems craft

PCB safety review, thermal, mechanical integration

05 / Skills

What I work with

High-voltage power electronics & batteries

Deep
Li-ion pack architectureOrion BMS 2 + custom modulesPrecharge / discharge / IMD circuitsProgrammable charging systemsDC bus stabilizationThermal managementSpace-vector modulation & PWM

Embedded firmware & signal chains

Deep
STM32 (L476, Cortex-M)C / ARM AssemblyADC, timers, interrupts, DMASPI / UART / I2C / PWM / DACEnd-to-end analog chains: sensor to ADC to IRQ to PWM/DAC to filter to ampLauterbach JTAG

CAN bus & diagnostics

Deep
Vehicle CAN architectureCustom STM32 CAN firmwarePython diagnostic GUIsOscilloscope & logic analyzer validation

PCB design & safety review

Deep
Schematic ownershipLayout reviewFSAE EV rules complianceProtection-logic verification before fabPrecision soldering

Mechanical CAD, FEA & CFD

Strong
SolidWorks (CSWP certified)SolidWorks SimulationAnsys FEA / CFDFusion 360Kinematics & linkages

Materials & manufacturing

Strong
PA612-CF15 carbon-fiber compositeTensile & torsion coupon testingFDM/FFF print optimization3D printability designComposite structures

Tooling & software

Familiar
PythonMATLAB / Simulink / SimscapeVerilog / VivadoLTSpiceSTM32CubeMX / KeilGitNext.js / TypeScript

07 / Honors

Recognition

  • 2nd Place, CrossFit Maker Challenge ($1,500)

    Team Megatrons, sponsored by CrossFit LLC; units shipped and displayed at CrossFit Sundown.

    2026
  • 1st Place, Asearis Hackathon

    PalmSync biometric wellness device; team captain of 3 engineers.

    2025
  • Possible Career Accelerator Fellow

    1 of 25 students, faculty-nominated by Dr. Andy Wolfe.

    2025
  • SolidWorks Certified Professional (CSWP)

    Plus MakerLab certification and MATLAB Simulink / Simscape Onramps.

    2025
  • Robotics Team Captain, First Tech Challenge

    Led 8 to 10 students in Nicosia, Cyprus; multiple awards including the Innovator Award.

    2021 - 2023
  • Stanford Inspirit AI Leadership Fellow & Ambassador

    Built an AI model to detect exoplanets in NASA TESS data.

    2021

08 / Education

Where I studied

  • Santa Clara University

    2023 - 2027

    B.S. Electrical & Mechanical Engineering (double major), Honors

    3.7 GPA. Expected 2027. Possible Career Accelerator (1 of 25).

  • University of Cambridge (A-Levels)

    2021 - 2023

    Computer Science A* (92%), Physics A

    Nicosia, Cyprus