At JPL I’m on the Robotic Operations and Tools team. I’m integrating drive and arm motion planning so Perseverance can drive and use its arm in the same sol A day on Mars, about 24 hours and 40 minutes. YAMCS An open-source mission control server. Hermes NASA’s open-source framework for commanding spacecraft and reading their telemetry.
Experience
Aug to Nov 2026 NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Software engineering intern, robotics
Pasadena, California
May to Aug 2026 Ramp
Built an LLM pipeline that turns user feedback into policy edits once the evidence is strong enough. Misclassifications fell from 30% to 5%.
New York
2026 to now Engineering Space Policy Lab, Georgia Tech
Modeling downrange risk for space launches, from launch attempts scraped out of FAA airspace notices.
Atlanta. espl.ae.gatech.edu
2025 to now PACE, Georgia Tech
Helping researchers on Georgia Tech’s supercomputing clusters. Hundreds of support tickets so far.
Atlanta
Teams
2025 to now 2021 to now North Gwinnett Robotics, FRC 1771
Software mentor, formerly autonomous lead. First in the world for autonomous in 2024, division champions at the 2025 world championship.
northgwinnettrobotics.com
2025 to 2026 RoboJackets RoboCup
Path planning, obstacle avoidance and task allocation for six soccer robots.
Projects
Oct 2026 YAMCS support for Hermes
A plugin that serves YAMCS telemetry to Hermes over gRPC, merged into nasa/hermes.
Code My PRs
Mar 2026 Optimal powered descent
An AIAA paper comparing ways to solve a rocket lander’s landing trajectory fast enough to replan in flight.
Rust. Paper Code
2023 to 2025 Holonomic auto-alignment
Lines our FRC robot up to any scoring position with under 1 cm of error, from any starting point.
C++ and Java.
2025 to 2026 TEAM 1771 Bootcamp
A self-paced C++ course for new team members. Every project runs in simulation.
Site
2023 to 2024 ASL translation
Computer vision that reads American Sign Language. Second place at the regional science fair.
Hackathons
AI ATL 2025 DocDoctor
Best Use of MongoDB Atlas
Devpost
HackNC 2025 NexHacks 2026, Carnegie Mellon RoboTech 2026, Georgia Tech
Resume (PDF)
Reading now
Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous
Finished this year
Project Hail Mary , Andy Weir 2026 The Martian , Andy Weir 2026
Most shot on a Pixel 9a. Instagram
Fall 2026 · Pasadena
Half Dome, Yosemite
Perseverance’s console in JPL mission control
The Mars Yard JPL’s outdoor test area, built to look like the surface of Mars.
Laguna Beach at sunset
Yosemite Valley at night
Half Dome summit
Half Dome reflected in the Merced
Pasadena at sunset
Meadow in Yosemite Valley
Biking through Yosemite Valley
Summer 2026 · Valencia and Istanbul
Summer 2026 · New York and San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Brooklyn Bridge at dusk
Midtown from Madison Square Park
Golden Gate Bridge from Lands End A rocky coastal park at the northwest edge of San Francisco.
Spring 2026 · Columbia, South Carolina
Fall 2025 · Atlanta
Atlanta
Tech Tower Georgia Tech’s landmark brick tower, built in 1888.
Atlanta at night
Mini 500 A tricycle race held every year during Georgia Tech’s homecoming.
Space Shuttle, Huntsville
Summer 2025 · Berlin
Sanssouci Frederick the Great’s summer palace in Potsdam, just outside Berlin.
Brandenburg Gate, Berlin
Unter den Linden Berlin’s grand boulevard, running east from the Brandenburg Gate.
Berlin from a rooftop
Charlottenburg A baroque palace in Berlin, built around 1700.
Spring 2025 · Houston and Suwanee
FRC 1771 Team 1771 in the FIRST Robotics Competition, where high school teams build a new robot every season.
Celebrating the division win
Graduation
December 2024 · Aachen and Xanten
Aachen Christmas market
Café in Xanten
Cobblestone street
Summer 2024 · British Columbia
January 2024 · Dominican Republic
Summer 2022 · Europe
Budapest Parliament at night
Naples and Vesuvius
Vienna at dusk
Karlskirche A baroque church in Vienna, finished in the 1730s.
Peleș Castle A royal castle in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, built for King Carol I.
Helsinki Cathedral
June 2022 · On the lake
Wakeboarding
Lived
Suwanee Grew up
Atlanta Georgia Tech
Berlin Summer 2025
New York Summer 2026
Pasadena Now
Been
United States
San Francisco
Yosemite
Laguna Beach
Houston
Washington, D.C.
Tampa
Orlando
Pittsburgh
Columbia
Chapel Hill
Asheville
Chattanooga
Savannah
Valdosta
Destin
Oshkosh
Las Vegas
Canada
Vancouver
Whistler
Victoria
Toronto
Mexico and the Caribbean
Cancún
the Bahamas
Aruba
Dominican Republic
Europe
Reykjanes
Reykjavík
Geysir
Seljalandsfoss
Reynisfjara
Madrid
Valencia
Barcelona
Netherlands
Aachen
Geldern
Xanten
Cologne
Heimsheim
Nuremberg
Munich
Rome
Naples
Vienna
Budapest
Târgu Mureș
Brașov
Helsinki
Lahti
Istanbul
What I’ve played most this month, on Spotify.
1 Wish U Well underscores 2 Run Your Mouth The Marías 3 Leaves Parcels 4 Leaveyourlove Parcels 5 Last Train to London Rikas
As of October 8, 2026
Top artists
Parcels Kendrick Lamar Taylor Swift Emilio Alec Benjamin
Things I’m trying to figure out.
Do we actually have free will?
Our experiences and relationships shape who we are.
Maybe consciousness is a connection to something beyond us, a deeper truth.
What does a fulfilling life look like?
No regrets.
Living my own life, not someone else’s.
Incredible dad lore .
Memories to last 9 lives.
Always putting my all into my work.
How far will learning-based approaches take robotics?
Still working this one out.
Will I find fulfillment in software, or do I need to get my hands dirty?
GenAI removes a lot of the hard parts that made software thrilling.
The line around which work is mine keeps getting blurrier.
I love watching physical things come to life because of my work.
How do I get into astrophotography?
Step 1: acquire a telescope
Step 2: get a DSLR
Step 3: go outside
“Maybe time is not what we think it is. Maybe memory is as real as the present, and no one we have ever loved is truly gone.”
Captain Christopher Pike
“Friendship is the mirror to another each day, providing a truer image of ourselves than we could ever find alone.”
David Whyte
“When you love someone, you are a witness to their unique beauty, and you protect it like a sacred fire.”
John O’Donohue
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”
Unknown
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Wander, and find home inside yourself.”
Tyler Knott Gregson
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
Vincent van Gogh
“There is no passion to be found playing small, in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
André Gide
“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably at someone else’s.”
Paraphrased from Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell
“Live long and prosper.”
Spock
“It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions.”
Captain Benjamin Sisko
“I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.”
Luthen Rael
