I’m an engineer by trade, but a doer at heart.

I was raised in sunny San Diego by two hard-working parents who shaped the way I approach life and engineering. My dad always told me, "If you can't pay for it to be done, you'd better get to learning." With my mom championing creativity and hands-on learning, my childhood was filled with projects, experiments, and a constant drive to build and improve.

Like many engineers, my journey started with Legos—but the sets I couldn’t afford, I reverse-engineered from online photos, often fooling friends into thinking I had the real thing. That spirit of curiosity and problem-solving carried into everything I built afterward. My friend Connor and I modified Nerf guns, tore apart old electronics, and built RC boats and planes from repurposed parts.

At home, we fixed things instead of replacing them. I learned basic woodworking by restoring an old treehouse with my dad and picked up electrical troubleshooting from broken appliances. By the time I was a teenager, he was the one holding the flashlight—and I was the one telling him where to point it.

When I got into longboarding, money was tight, so I built instead of bought my first board. I laminated a board at 13 using a YouTube video as reference and a skill saw. That kicked off a deep dive into board building: presses, epoxy layups, and eventually, precision trucks. I designed and printed my first set in CAD at 14, which led to an internship at local maker space, Fab Lab San Diego. There, I connected with Beau from Open Source Skateboards—a mentor who taught me laser cutting, applied calculous, and eventually trusted me to teach a course he developed on skateboard design across San Diego, including at UCSD.

My passion for skateboarding evolved naturally into a love for cars. I realized reverse kingpin truck geometry wasn’t all that different from Ackermann steering theory. I learned basic auto maintenance from my dad, but soon I was pulling engines and servicing vehicles on my own. Since then, I’ve worked on over 100 cars—everything from friends’ beaters to commercial fleets—and can now diagnose most issues over the phone (which has paid for more meals than I can count).

Today, I’m a Product Development Engineer at KIC Thermal, leading mechanical R&D, system design, and testing for thermal profiling equipment used in advanced electronics manufacturing. In my spare time, I’m designing a custom track car from the ground up—handling everything from custom suspension geometry to aerodynamics. For me, engineering is about understanding how things work, pushing limits, and never being afraid to learn something new.

Whether it's a skateboard, a car, or a complex system—if it moves, I want to understand it, refine it, and push it to the edge of what's possible. I believe great engineering doesn’t just solve problems—it tells a story of curiosity, grit, and continuous growth.

This is mine.