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Engineer. Servant Leader. Believer.
I am a robotics engineer who cares most about the people who have to use what I build. Lately that has meant AI tools for businesses, robots that have to work with a crowd watching, and a summer at NASA JPL asking Mars operators whether they trust their software.
Now: Founder & CEO of SYZYGY.services. Recently: NASA JPL, where I studied how Mars mission operators trust AI tools.
If you only have a minute, this is what I would want you to know.
4,000+ hours
saved every year by Client GPT, the LLM suite I pitched to a client’s leadership and then built. Around 40 people there use it daily.
NASA Shining Star
award from JPL at the end of my 2026 internship, one of 4 given to interns out of more than 1,200 across all NASA centers.
Mission Critical Award
for TRIAGE, a root cause analysis dashboard for a Mars helicopter that I built alone over one hackathon weekend at JPL.
67% trust gap
between expert and novice Mars operators looking at the same GenAI tool. I found it by sitting in on Curiosity rover operations for a summer.
Founder and CEO
of SYZYGY.services. There are six of us, and we take AI work from the first conversation about what is broken through to production.
FIRST Leadership Award
winner and World Championship finalist. I have mentored over 70 Michigan rookie teams since 2023.