Building products and systems that make complicated ideas easier to use and inspect.
Looking for a Summer 2027 software engineering internship→I like turning open-ended ideas into clear, working systems. The best projects make the underlying decisions easy to understand.
Currently learning through shipped products, benchmarks, and experiments.
EXIT 2Work
A few projects where I have focused on useful behavior, inspectable architecture, and honest tradeoffs. Pick one to see the real thing.
A full-stack community application where vehicle history transfers between owners while authorship and access boundaries remain intact.
PostgreSQL ownership periods preserve authorship and access boundaries. VIN onboarding uses the NHTSA vPIC API, with authentication, public vehicle pages, row-level security, and role-based permission tests.
An inspectable C++17 search engine with a linear baseline, inverted index, persistent indexes, multithreading, and exact, fuzzy, and synonym-aware queries.
Benchmarked 5,950 English Wikipedia articles and added PDF, web, and SQLite ingestion, a localhost browser UI, GitHub Actions CI, and multi-size reports. Parallel indexing improved from 496 ms to 434 ms while reducing peak RSS by 14.6%.
A PPO agent, written from scratch in PyTorch, that learns to land a simulated rocket, with held-out evaluation and an honest account of what made training stable.
A NumPy simulator behind the Gymnasium API, a PPO agent trained from scratch, and an evaluation protocol that checks test seeds never overlap training. Diagnosing why some seeds failed (policies running out of fuel before touchdown) led to a fuel-aware reward: 19 of 20 training seeds now land at least 90% of 500 unseen starts, against 12 of 20 with the original reward. A few seeds are still imperfect, and the repository documents them.
EXIT 3Lab
Three projects, three different ways of thinking. Pick one and play with the idea behind it.
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EXIT 4Experience and education
My current work combines hands-on IT support with software engineering projects. Supporting real users and infrastructure keeps my code grounded in reliability, documentation, and clear problem-solving.
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Five Star Networking Livermore, CA
Customer concernHardware, network, and infrastructure issues across client environments, including high-profile assignments at Meta corporate offices.
Las Positas College Livermore, CA
GoalEarn a B.S. and build software for a living.
EXIT 5About
I am a computer science student building toward software engineering. My projects move between systems work, full-stack product development, and the practical discipline of supporting real users and infrastructure.
Also grounded indata structuresalgorithmsdata modelingautomated testingaccess control
EXIT 6Off the clock
Away from the keyboard I'm a car person, and this site is built around one night on the road.
The air suspension pump fails. All four airbags go flat, and the car is sitting on the ground.
No tow truck. I head north alone, with the music all the way up.
Still on the ground. Still going.
I drive straight to my mechanic friend's shop. No way you drove all the way here from San Diego like that.
EXIT 6ACommunity
1,000+I also host our car meets.
For a long time I felt out of place. The car community is where I found people I belonged with, and I want to build spaces where other people can find that too.
RESUMEThe one-page version
Every new car has a spec sheet in the window. Here's mine. The full PDF has the details.
Open resumeSoftware engineer · Summer 2027 internship
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