aerospace
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.
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.
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.
work
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.
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.
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.
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.
projects
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.