I have designed and built everything from weatherproof smart bike locks and steel-frame combat robots to bourbon ice ball presses and DND dice boxes.

There’s not much in life you can’t fix or build with a Mitutoya caliper, Solidworks and access to a machine shop. I live by that. In high school, I was thrown into the engineering deep end in my Battlebots club, where I designed and built my way from engineering novice to first place at state championships. In college, my skills expanded as I threw myself back into hardware projects, including the smart bike lock that launched my startup HiveBike. I used my summers to work jobs in engineering and on demand manufacturing companies that exposed me to the world of production and manufacturing that comes after design submission. At my most recent position, I have been using FEA and performing complex mechanical design and analysis for mechanical parts for the next generation of nuclear submarine cores.

Much has changed since my BattleBot days, but I feel the same thrill the moment my ideas and designs take physical shape.