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aerospace @ UIUC

Liquid Rocketry at Illinoisliquid rocket engine testing + team leadership

Built and tested feed-system hardware for RAND-E, our student-developed liquid bipropellant rocket engine test-stand. Contributed to tube fabrication, plumbing, water-flow, cold-flow, and hotfire operations. Also rebuilt the team website and later served as the team's Administrative Director.

Overture Mk1 · first hotfire · May 3, 2026
Overture Mk1 Engine · cold-flow test · Apr. 14, 2026
Overture Mk1 Engine · first hotfire · May 3, 2026
Overture Mk1 engine hardware
Carbon-fiber quadcopterpersonal drone build · 2026

Built a roughly 2 kg carbon-fiber quadcopter. Integrated the airframe, motors, power supply, radio, and flight-control systems before iterating through bench and outdoor flight tests.

Carbon-fiber quadcopter on display · Consensus Miami Conference · May 2026
Night flight test · Feb. 27, 2026
Anduril AI Grand Prixautonomous drone racing · spring 2026

Built a GPS-denied vision and control stack for Anduril’s autonomous drone-racing competition using OpenCV, IMU guidance, and a racing-line controller. Advanced past Round 1 with no crashes in the evaluated runs.

NMCAD Labaerospace materials research intern · IISc

Developed a k-nearest-neighbor analyzer for syntactic foam, a lightweight composite used in aerospace and marine structures, and rebuilt the lab website during a research internship at the Indian Institute of Science.

SpaceXAIAI developer community lead · UIUC

Representing UIUC in SpaceXAI’s campus program through developer workshops, hackathons, build nights, and student collaborations.

Spicenetfounding engineer · blockchain infrastructure

Built Rust trading vaults, rollup infrastructure, and the TypeScript SDK for the core product, SpiceFlow. The SDK powered applications for 30,000+ users.

SpiceFlow funding flow
StellarSOLcrypto payments founder · 2nd of 750

Co-founded a Solana payments product and led its engineering through the Summer Camp hackathon, placing second in the Payments track among 750 submissions. StellarSOL later received a Solana Foundation grant and I was featured by The Information.

The Information · “The Crypto Prodigies” · Mar. 2023
Article excerpt on me
Buying from Flipkart with USDC through StellarSOL · product demo
Superteam Earnfounding team · crypto jobs marketplace

Helped build the original frontend for Superteam’s bounties, grants, and jobs platform. The early product reached roughly 1,500 weekly viewers while listing millions of dollars in opportunities.

Superteam Earn launch on Product Hunt
Solana Summer Fellowshipbuilder program mentor · $100k sponsorships

Organized and mentored an eight-week program for 42 builders selected from 583 applicants across 15 countries, helping run the curriculum, technical sessions, and project support.

Solana Foundationdeveloper relations intern · 4 university workshops

Designed and delivered four hands-on developer workshops across four universities, drawing 1,000 registrations and helping participants mint more than 300 NFTs. The curriculum included a first Solana program, a bank simulator, and a poll application.

4 university workshops · 1,000 registrations · 300+ NFTs
Pythia Marketsprediction markets · $18k hackathon winner

Built the Solana program and led the Arcium confidential-computation integration for private prediction markets. Won the $10,000 University Prize and $8,000 Arcium track among 1,576 submissions.

AsymmEDapple swift student challenge winner · built in 4 days

Built an interactive app explaining asymmetric encryption after learning Swift from scratch in four days, developing remotely on a friend's Mac over TeamViewer.

Apple Swift Student Challenge winner package · 2023
WWDC23 winner hoodie
Superteam CTFcrypto security competition · $10k+ prizes

Designed all 14 cryptography, smart-contract, reverse-engineering, and systems challenges for the first in-person competition at Microsoft Bengaluru, then returned as an organizer for the second edition.

Superteam CTF v2 · 76 attendees · Localhost Bengaluru
Live competition floor · first Superteam CTF · 5 sec
CatWatchdrone inspection toolkit · hackathon project

Built a Python toolkit for drone and camera-based industrial inspection at HackIllinois, combining real-time vision models with damaged-part detection and a 3D defect viewer.

Flume + OptionsFifinance tools · 2 hackathon prizes · $5k total

Built Flume, a visual interface for composing DeFi actions, and helped ship OptionsFi during the same overnight sprint. The two projects placed fourth and second at Midwest Blockchain Conference 2025.

Disbetdiscord sports betting · $3k prize · built in 4 hours

Built a Discord-native sports-betting experience on Monaco Protocol in four hours. Won the Sandstorm UX track, a $3,000 prize, and two Breakpoint tickets.

Solathonpython blockchain toolkit · 150k+ downloads

Built and maintained an open-source Python SDK for Solana RPCs and transactions. 150,000+ downloads and a $3,000 development grant.

Solathon Python SDK documentation
Salt Analysischemistry learning tool · ~100 daily unique users

Turned the qualitative salt-analysis flowchart into a guided interactive workflow for chemistry labs. ~100 daily unique users and 23,000+ page views across 102 countries.

Salt Analysis interactive workflow
SOL Trekno-code blockchain learning playground

Built a block-based environment for learning how Solana programs and transactions fit together. Received a $6,000 Solana Foundation grant.

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