The way I work: I go to whatever level the problem actually lives at. Some days that is a configured-axis mismatch between a client and a robot runtime; some days it is what the product should be, how the strategy holds up, or what a team’s culture rewards. The low-level detail keeps the big picture honest, and the big picture decides which details matter, so I move between them as the evidence calls for rather than staying at one altitude.
I’m a software research engineer working across AI/ML, robotics, and systems. At Advanced Metal Research I’m the learning and autonomy engineer on robotic welding: I built the team’s shared run-data platform and verification ladder, its agent software factory, and the Steam Deck operator controls, and I lead three to five of its interns.
I began at Applied Medical at sixteen and was hired full time at eighteen. Over five years I designed, built, and qualified dozens of end-of-arm tools, fixtures, and other tooling for injection molding and its automation, and they still run in production. I moved into math, computer science, and AI to scale that intuition with tools, and I want to bring it back to manufacturing and mechanical design.
Before that, I co-led mechanical design in FIRST Robotics. I also played competitive piano, taught, improvised, and performed.
At UC San Diego I studied Cognitive Science with a specialization in Machine Learning and Neural Computation, alongside reinforcement learning, neural data science, and design research.
At RAM Laboratories, a defense SBIR research firm, I went from member to senior member of technical staff over three years. I was principal investigator on a $250k Army SBIR in tactical behavior analytics, a core contributor to RAM’s DARPA AI Cyber Challenge entry, led a joint concept with Georgia Tech under DARPA FACT, built distributed edge inference, and wrote more than fifteen SBIR proposals. I’m a named co-inventor on patent-pending automated vulnerability repair from the DL-Patcher program.
Since 2025 I’ve done startup work through Mabie Industries, my S-corp, including Drone Institute, Siethar Group, Hammies, and Truffle Computer Company. My interests include model evaluation, calibrated decisions, and the tools people use to inspect and correct AI systems.
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