About

I’m a control engineer at Green Revolution Cooling in Austin. I studied electrical engineering at UT Dallas and finished in May 2025. Most of my work so far has been control loops, embedded firmware and PCB design, along with the test setups and paperwork that go with them. It has taken me through data center immersion cooling, a commercial radar product, medical device prototypes, an EV thermal test bench and automotive infotainment.

I started taking things apart and building my own early. My family moved around a lot when I was growing up, so I got used to new places and new subjects, and I never kept my interests to math and science. Physics was the first thing that felt like it explained the tricks. I went into electrical engineering because it is the part of physics you can build with: waves and fields doing work you cannot see. I still like the idea of a toy maker, someone who makes things that do something.

In high school I ran the robotics team, then started a Shell Eco-Marathon entry. That meant finding the money and the sponsors and talking to the press as well as doing the electrical work. We were the first team from a Katy school to enter, we took the car to the 2019 competition, and the Houston Chronicle wrote about it.

I had also been tutoring since high school, and at UT Dallas I ran that as a small company of my own, on top of flipping cars and electronics the whole way through. I was treasurer of the investment club there, and I spent the breaks between semesters in industry, trying different kinds of systems to find the ones I wanted to keep working on.

Temperature control keeps coming back. It was the thermal bench at Canoo, then the PID battery heater at Applied Concepts, and now the OpenPLC temperature loops at Green Revolution Cooling. In most of these jobs the board, the firmware and the bench were all mine, and so was the documentation. At Applied Concepts that meant a PID loop on an STM32 Nucleo, layouts in Siemens PADS and KiCad, and a freeze chamber I built to test in. At Inogen it was a four-layer LTE board in Altium, C++ firmware for STM parts, and an automated test fixture.

Day to day I write the OpenPLC logic for the temperature loops, alarms and interlocks on the Nano, NX Rack and Atto platforms. I design the LED and stepper interface boards, write the stepper firmware, and chase down problems on the RS-485, CAN, I²C and USB links between the controllers, sensors and actuators. The rest is wiring and bring-up, NEMKO validation, a Linux UI for setup and monitoring, and the test procedures, wiring diagrams and manuals. Away from the bench I read psychology and game theory, mostly for how people actually decide things. What I want to do with all of it is build things people use and keep.