Designing toward machines that
extend human capability.

I got hooked on engineering the moment I could see my ideas evolve in real time, refining, iterating, until I fully understood what I'd built and why it worked. Robotics is where that happens at every level. It pulled me in because it's still being figured out, and that's exactly the kind of problem I work best on. I start narrow, a single actuator, a single linkage, and each project adds a layer until they start to reinforce each other.

The goal is to be capable anywhere in the industry. Right now that points toward HRI and automation, different problems with the same underlying idea, machines that push humans forward by removing what holds them back or extending what they can do. What draws me to HRI is the complexity of balancing technical precision with usability, all engineered around a person. Automation pulls me in for the opposite reason, no human in the loop, just a system running faster, longer, and more consistently than any person could. Both live at the boundary between mechanism design and control, where geometry shapes behavior and the decisions you make in CAD show up in how the system performs in the real world. That intersection is where I want to work.