aerospace
Founded Detonation Propulsion at Illinois, where I lead a 15+ person student team building Resonance: a liquid-oxygen / liquid-methane rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE). I led system sizing and the fluid architecture across feed, purge, ignition, and cooling. It’s sized for the 2 kN class and hasn’t fired yet, so detonation and thrust are still to be demonstrated.
Built a Python/Polars/rasterio pipeline and MapLibre/deck.gl map from one week of public ADS-B archives across DFW and Austin. Terrain-corrected heights to AGL, then grouped traffic by H3 cell, altitude band, aircraft type, and hour. In DFW, 82% of 1,275 observed aircraft-hours below 1,200 ft fell within 3 NM of a public-use runway. The map generates a 10-mile traffic brief for any point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
work
Representing UIUC in SpaceXSI’s campus program through developer workshops, hackathons, build nights, and student collaborations.
Built Rust trading vaults, rollup infrastructure, and the TypeScript SDK for the core product, SpiceFlow. The SDK powered applications for 30,000+ users.
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.
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.
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.
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.
projects
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.
Built an interactive app explaining asymmetric encryption after learning Swift from scratch in four days, developing remotely on a friend's Mac over TeamViewer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Built and maintained an open-source Python SDK for Solana RPCs and transactions. 150,000+ downloads and a $3,000 development grant.
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.
Built a block-based environment for learning how Solana programs and transactions fit together. Received a $6,000 Solana Foundation grant.