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Mechanical Engineer · Space Systems & Robotics

Seeking a mechanical design and development role in aerospace or robotics.

Experience delivering flight hardware and robotic systems from design through testing.

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RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

CTO & Co-founder

Drover Labs | Oakland, CA | 2025-Present

  • Co-founded Drover Labs and raised $3.1M in total funding, including pre-seed funding through Berkeley SkyDeck.
  • Demonstrated a fly-and-drive inspection robot to prospective customers, securing follow-up interest and using feedback to guide product development.
  • Led drive-system design and prototyping, reducing subsystem weight by approximately 20%.

NASA Aerospace Engineer for Autonomous and Robotic Systems

NASA Kennedy Space Center | Swamp Works | 2021-2025

IPEx Suborbital Flight Experiment

Lead Design Engineer

  • Led mechanical design, assembly, and testing of two flight payloads that operated successfully and collected regolith-flow data during suborbital flight.
  • Led vibration and EMI testing, mass-properties verification, and the mechanical CDR, demonstrating flight readiness.
  • Owned mechanical CAD in Creo, formally released manufacturing drawings and BOMs, and coordinated mechanical interfaces with Blue Origin’s New Shepard.
  • Used structural FEA to verify required factors of safety under launch loads and optimized the design to preserve 1 lb of worst-case mass margin.

Infrastructure Pilot Excavator (IPEx) TRL 5 Robot

Mechanical Engineer

  • Assembled, wired, and tested the IPEx rover, helping advance the system from TRL 3 to TRL 5.
  • Tested custom IPEx actuators in TVAC across varying temperatures and braking loads to characterize performance under simulated lunar conditions.
  • Led camera thermal-vacuum, vibration, and functional testing, confirming continued operation and identifying calibration shifts during thermal testing.
  • Redesigned the radiator cover and actuator housing after electrostatic testing, adding features to deflect regolith away from the radiator during cover opening.

ALSI Pressure Vessel

Lead Design Engineer

  • Designed a custom crucible and extrusion system to form wire from molten aluminum and eutectic aluminum-silicon alloy using induction heating and argon pressurization in a vacuum chamber.
  • Designed a stainless-steel vessel following the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, rated for 250 psi at 1200°F.

OSCAR Structural Analysis

Structural Analyst

  • Performed chamber FEA to verify rated pressure capability and presented results to KSC chief engineers at a Critical Design Review.

Mini RASSOR

Mechanical Engineering Pathways Intern | Spring - Summer 2021

  • Printed ABS parts on Ultimakers and checked tolerances on wheels, chassis, bucket drum, and actuator housings.
  • Designed a 3D-printable bucket drum that reduced part count to seven and simplified assembly.

Publications

Co-author on the following conference papers.