I'm an engineer, maker, and artist who likes learning about how everything works! I've spent the last 8 years working on programming languages, open-source apps, and nanotechnology. You might have bumped into my past lives at Microsoft, Bloomberg, or Cornell AppDev. Alternatively, you might have encountered my current work on sensors, apps, and microchips at OWiC Technologies. In any case, please take a look around and feel free to reach out!
Fun Fact: This <14kB website is running on my business card.
OWiC Connect
Description:
We at OWiC Technologies designed and manufactured a microchip less than a millimeter in size, which when powered by light, could communicate with a smartphone by way of nano-second pulses of FREAKING LASER BEAMS. This was the app to find, read, and decode those laser beams, using it to read the temperature, tag the chip with notes, or show you wedding photos. The first versions of this app overheated an iPhone 13 Pro in under a minute. Our latest runs on a 1st gen iPhone SE.
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Helios
Description:
A more recent project at OWiC involved SPECS, our latest addition to our “nanotech the world didn’t know it needed” line of products. These small chips sit in a vial and synthesize new compounds when exposed to light, enabling never-before-seen scalability in the electrochemical world. While they worked with existing photochemical equipment, those were already somewhat rare in labs. Thus, I built a user-friendly electrochemistry reactor with an BOM under $100 to ease adoption, driving sales as part of our demo kits for industry partners to try our workflow.
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Red Thread
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The core challenge at the heart of startups has always been “product-market fit” — determining if people want to buy what you’re selling. As we prepared to launch a commercial product, I envisioned, designed, and took Red Thread to market as a pilot. After creating the marketing materials, a social media campaign, and the products themselves, my wonderful wife and I sold out of our entire stock in 3 days. The learnings we collected from Red Thread proceeded to inform a company pivot.
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Intro to Android
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Before my most recent work, my speciality was in Android app development. I’d spent nearly 8 years working in the Android ecosystem, having been employed to build an Android telemedicine app at the age of 16. So, when I joined Cornell AppDev, I pushed for the formation of a new introductory course to accompany their iOS and backend curriculum. With the help of my then subteam lead, Lesley Huang, we wrote up a textbook and taught CS 1998 - Intro to Android Development in the Spring 2020 semester. Later on, when I took over as subteam lead, I helped to rewrite the curriculum in Kotlin.
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