Chicago · NYC
Software Engineer
I build from the kernel up — a Unix-like RISC-V operating system, real-time computer vision, an FPGA video pipeline, and the web apps that sit on top.
UIUC Computer Engineering · Graduating Dec 2026 · Open to new-grad SWE roles in Chicago, NYC & the Bay Area
Two of these run live in your browser — no install, no setup. Start there.
A Unix-like kernel written from scratch in C and RISC-V assembly. Preemptive multitasking, Sv39 paging with per-process address spaces, a read-write KTFS filesystem with write-back cache, and fork/exec/wait syscalls behind a custom shell that supports I/O redirection, piping, and background jobs. VirtIO block and UART drivers plus an ELF loader boot it to an interactive shell on QEMU — where it runs unmodified 1970s BSD games in user mode.
A real-time exercise form coach, built with a 3-person team at HackIllinois. I wrote the pose-comparison engine in Python — aligning your workout against a reference with dynamic time warping over normalized joint angles — and served it as a REST API on Modal. Also built the Vitest and Playwright testing stack for the React/TypeScript app, and cut search latency with a prefix-aware LRU cache in front of a third-party exercise API.
A SystemVerilog camera-to-HDMI display pipeline with a hardware text-overlay engine addressed over AXI4-Lite. Real-time video capture, buffering, and output on an FPGA board. ECE 385 final project.
A CNN benchmarked against a Transformer built from scratch — custom multi-head attention and tokenizer, no nn.Transformer — for duplicate-question detection on the Quora dataset. Full PyTorch training pipeline with evaluation and visualization.
Natural-language listing search — describe the stay you want in plain English and get ranked results. Hugging Face sentence embeddings over listing data, served by a FastAPI backend with a React frontend.
A C++ backtesting harness that treats a portfolio as a graph — applying Dijkstra, minimum spanning trees, and PageRank-style centrality to portfolio construction, then measuring the strategies against historical data.
A course planning and degree-progress web app for UIUC students — map requirements, plan semesters, and track what's left. React and TypeScript frontend, built with a team.
Software Engineering Intern · Remote
Jun 2026 — Present
Software Engineering Intern · Chicago, IL
Apr 2026 — Jun 2026
Software Engineering Intern (Contract) · Lakehurst, NJ
May 2024 — Aug 2024
B.S. Computer Engineering, Minor in Statistics
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Expected Dec 2026
USACO Gold Division
Holonyak Scholarship ($5,000)
Operating Systems · Distributed Systems · Algorithms & Models of Computation · Machine Learning Systems · Deep Learning for Computer Vision · Database Systems
I'm a Computer Engineering student at UIUC, graduating December 2026. I like working at both ends of the stack: I've written a Unix-like kernel in C and RISC-V assembly, wired a camera to an HDMI display in SystemVerilog, built a Transformer from scratch in PyTorch, and shipped React and FastAPI apps on top of all of it.
I've spent the last three summers interning as a software engineer — a pricing engine and an LLM sourcing agent at Merkaloop, a full-stack ERP with demand forecasting at Printech Workshop, and equipment-tracking systems for VH-92 helicopter operations with the US Navy.
The through-line is wanting to know how the layer underneath actually works — which is usually how I end up building it myself.
Open to new-grad software engineering roles in Chicago, NYC, and the Bay Area.
I'm looking for new-grad software engineering roles starting after December 2026 — and I'm always happy to talk about kernels, models, or anything in between.
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