About

I’m pursuing an M.S. in Engineering (Interdisciplinary) at San José State University, with a focus on the intersection of robotics and AI. I started in August 2026 and expect to graduate in 2028.

What draws me to robotic vision is the possibility of machines understanding the environments people live in: recognizing familiar objects, remembering where they were seen, and reasoning about what has changed. I’m particularly interested in shared spaces, where people move, borrow, and return objects, and a robot has to decide when to look again or ask for help.

Before SJSU, I worked as a Field Software Engineer at Canonical until July 2026. I designed and deployed private-cloud systems built on Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph, and worked through problems across the stack. Customer conversations, technical demonstrations, and explaining complex systems were as much a part of the role as troubleshooting. I’m bringing that combination of problem-solving and speaking into my studies.

My route into engineering began with security. At UC Santa Cruz, the Slug Security Club gave me a place to explore network security and ethical hacking. After graduating, I worked on cloud compliance, threat modeling, and automation before moving to Canonical. My homelab remains a place to recreate systems, test ideas, and learn by breaking and rebuilding them.

This notebook follows the systems I build and the questions I want to explore next. My longer-term interests include space exploration and the role autonomous machines could play beyond Earth.