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Experience
Three roles across spacecraft systems engineering, hardware and controls integration, thermal trades, test, and research automation. Each entry states what changed in units someone can check.
01 / Professional
Engineering roles
Spacecraft Systems Engineer, TAMU-SPIRIT Capstone
Aegis Aerospace / ISS payload program · College Station, TX
- Maintained 100% milestone compliance for 4 ISS-bound experiments targeting a Sep 2028 SpaceX Dragon launch, by managing engineering change requests and NASA compliance tracking through SCR, SRR and PDR government design reviews.
- Reduced thermal design risk for the DASH payload by performing material selection trades and thermal analysis across −120 °C to +120 °C LEO cycling.
- Advanced the project toward late-2026 hardware manufacturing by coordinating quality documentation across an 8-person engineering team.
Controls & Embedded Systems Engineer
BLNC Turtle Robotics · College Station, TX
- Reduced motor validation errors by standardizing bench-test procedures in LabVIEW and maintaining as-built documentation, so that a test result meant the same thing regardless of who ran it.
- Achieved full autonomous stabilization of a two-wheeled inverted-pendulum rover: building the hardware from component level and implementing cascaded PID control: an inner attitude loop inside an outer position loop, because the plant is open-loop unstable and the two loops have to be separated in bandwidth.
- Established repeatable hardware-in-the-loop test practice for motor characterization, converting ad-hoc bench measurements into procedures with recorded conditions and expected results.
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Texas A&M ACE Lab, Dr. Sasangohar · College Station, TX
- Cut manual analysis time by 40% and accelerated report delivery by 2 days by building a Python pipeline processing 5,000+ data points per run.
- Replaced a hand-run analysis workflow with a reproducible one, so results could be regenerated from raw data rather than reconstructed from someone's spreadsheet.
02 / Education
Education
B.S. Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
| Expected | May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Focus | Mechanical design and structures; guidance, navigation & control; flight software; systems engineering |
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, Fast Track
Texas A&M University, combined BS/MS program
| Status | In progress |
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| Focus | Yet to be decided |
03 / Method
How I work
The habits underneath every entry above.
I prefer work that leaves artefacts: tests, logs, plots, traces and procedures someone else can re-run. A claim without an artefact is an opinion.
Most failures live at interfaces: joints and load paths, tolerances, thermal boundaries, packet formats, timing, frame conventions and fault handling. That is where I spend my attention.
Blocked work is stated as blocked, design targets are labelled as targets, and archived projects keep their closeouts. Hiding the gaps costs more than it saves.