About Me

I'm a software engineer with a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Duke University. Professionally, I work in defense — C++ simulation for missile defense systems and AI/LLM infrastructure in classified air-gapped environments, at an Army engineering division in Huntsville, AL. My professional work can't be shown publicly. This site is the other side of that: personal projects I document to show how I actually think through problems.


The projects here cover more ground than a typical portfolio because my interests genuinely do. Hardware: a clinical-grade pulmonary spirometer, a stroke detection sleep mask using EOG electrodes, a real-time fall detector with Kalman filtering on Raspberry Pi, a CPAP patient monitoring system. Systems: a C++23 game engine with a dual-reality state synchronization mechanic, a fully hardware-implemented Wordle on a custom pipelined MIPS processor in Verilog, network routers implementing RIP and ARP from scratch in C. AI: a deployed health risk inference API running eight ML models on a 2GB VPS, an on-device coaching app running a quantized 1.5GB LLM entirely offline. Infrastructure: a self-hosted cloud stack on repurposed gaming hardware with zero-trust networking via Tailscale.

Each of these is a genuine build — real hardware, real deployments, real engineering decisions documented in the write-ups.


The Tutorials are where the implementation detail lives — specific choices, edge cases, and what actually went wrong during development. The Projects are the architecture and high-level context. Together they're a more complete picture than either alone.

I graduated from Duke University with a double major in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering. The BME gave me fluency in medical signal processing, clinical measurement, and the kind of rigor that comes from working on hardware that can affect patients. The ECE gave me the digital systems and hardware foundation. Those two degrees shape how I approach problems. A lot of the medical hardware projects here — the spirometer, the EOG stroke detection mask, the fall detector — came from that interest in health and signal quality. I just kept building into that space because the problems are genuinely interesting.
I work at an Army engineering division in Huntsville, AL on safety-critical software systems. The work spans C++ simulation for missile defense (hardware-in-the-loop, multi-threaded, zero-failure tolerance), deploying and operationalizing open-source LLMs and RAG systems on air-gapped GPU infrastructure in classified environments, and full-stack platforms that automate compliance, QA, and audit workflows across the organization. It's a broad role in a high-stakes domain.
My day job is in classified environments — no public repos, no demos, no blog posts I can share. This portfolio is the public record of how I actually work: personal projects I built to learn, experiment, and push into domains my job doesn't cover. The technical rigor is the same; the domains are just ones I got to choose. The Tutorials section goes deeper than the project writeups — implementation choices, edge cases, what actually broke during development — so if you want to understand how I think through a technical problem, that's the better place to look.
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