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About Me

Welcome! Hope you check out the rest of the site for projects and some other things I’m interested in. I grew up on Kauai and surfed everyday for the most part.

Some of the topics you’ll find on this site:

  • Autonomous robotic gardening systems
  • Computer vision and machine learning
  • How I spent 2 summers flying a drone for America’s largest coffee farm
  • Rapid prototyping

I started mechanical engineering at the University of Hawaii with professional development goals in mind:

  1. Be the well-rounded engineer I met during my first internship at the Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory.
  2. Bridge the gap between mechanical design and software to control it by learning all I could about programming and small electronics.
  3. Work on skills that are irreplaceable for the next technological revolution.

Since I started school in 2014 I’ve worked on developing skills in:

  • Python
  • Javascript
  • C++
  • Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc.
  • Solidworks
  • 3D printing
  • HTML & CSS
  • FPGA development

Ask anyone that knows me and they’ll tell you I am constantly evolving.

Looking for ways to improve myself, while bolstering the relationships with those around me.

Humans are great at adapting.