Experience

Five years, in order.

Roles, school, side projects, and the wins along the way, from starting at Kettering in 2021 to General Motors today. Scroll to rewind, filter by type, or pick any mark on the ruler.

Mar 2026 — Present7 mo · Flint, MI

RoleGeneral Motors

Software Engineer

Leading deployment of 72 AI cameras across 38 conveyors in the GM Flint plant, enabling real-time computer vision monitoring at scale.
Developed an end-to-end automation pipeline for camera configuration, covering onboarding, pilot, and production, reducing setup time from 5-6 weeks to 2-3 days for TPMs across 7 GM plants.
Maintained and updated technical documentation and tools for the camera onboarding process, ensuring accuracy across pipeline changes.

Dec 2025 — Present10 mo

Side project · Foundertabooparty.online

Taboo Party

A real-time multiplayer word game in the browser and as an official Discord Activity. Next.js, TypeScript, and Socket.IO. 52,000+ visits, 800+ registered users, and a 100+ member community server.

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Oct 2025Dearborn, MI

Hackathon winUniversity of Michigan–Dearborn

1st place, Hack Dearborn 4 with Givvy

24 hours, team of three with Andrew Ricard and Melvin Cloud. A battery-free NFC gift card with an e-ink display, AES-encrypted and tokenized, plus web and point-of-sale apps. Won the Amazon Financial Firewall (FinTech) track among 240+ participants.

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Sep 2025Flint, MI

GraduatedKettering University

B.S. Computer Science, GPA 3.94

Concentration in AI, minor in Applied Mathematics.
Dean’s List 2021–2025. Member of the UPE Computer Science and KME Mathematics honor societies.
Facility Manager at the Recreation Center, VP of the International Club, and a Volleyball Club member.

Aug 2025 — Sep 20252 mo

Side projectReact · AWS · Firebase

Transcripto

Upload a lecture’s audio or video and get back a transcript plus study resources generated from it. React on AWS Amplify and S3, with Firebase.

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Summer 2025

ScholarshipMichigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)

$5,000 Michiganders Scholarship

Jul 2025 — Sep 20253 mo

Side projectKettering Recreation Center

REC-IT

A full-stack React and TypeScript app on Supabase and Firebase that replaced the Rec Center’s manual workflows — built for the place I was already managing shifts at.

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Apr 2025 — Present1 yr 6 mo

Undergraduate thesisKettering University & Hyundai Mobis

LLM reasoning for in-cabin comfort

A local LLM reasoning system using agentic RAG and multi-modal sensor data for low-latency, on-device comfort and entertainment recommendations, tested on a Cruden driving simulator.

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Apr 2025 — May 20252 mo

Side projectsongchat.online

SongChat

A chat room for everyone listening to the same song right now, gone when the song ends. React, Node, Socket.IO, and the Spotify Web API; 500+ users.

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Fall 2024

ScholarshipMichigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)

$5,000 Michiganders Scholarship

Jun 2024 — Dec 20247 mo

Side projectPi Network

Gigs for Pi

A Web3 freelancing platform in TypeScript and Supabase. 20,000+ likes, a 4.78/5 rating across 37,000+ reviews, and a feature on the official Pi Network GitHub.

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Oct 2023Dearborn, MI

Hackathon win · first hackathonHack Dearborn: Disrupt Reality

Automotive track + ZF challenge, Hack Dearborn

My first hackathon: nearly 200 students, 24 hours. I built the age and hand-gesture detection behind an in-car media recommender that matched content to trip length with 89% accuracy. Took both the Automotive track and ZF’s problem statement.

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Jan 2023Las Vegas, NV

ShowcaseHyundai Mobis

Gesture controls on stage at CES 2023

The in-cabin hand-gesture recognition I worked on was demoed at CES 2023, with deployment planned across 5M+ vehicles.

Oct 2022 — Jun 20252 yr 9 mo · Plymouth, MI

Role · rotational co-opHyundai Mobis

AI/ML Engineer

Optimized a local LLM with agentic RAG for in-vehicle edge deployment, reducing inference latency by 35% and enabling a real-time voice-based driver alertness system, improving engagement by 20%.
Developed an ML-based hand gesture recognition system for in-cabin controls; showcased at CES 2023 and planned for deployment across 5M+ vehicles by 2025.
Built reusable backend libraries for math, vector, and matrix operations, eliminating 30% of redundant code; added OpenCV, OpenGL, and Vulkan-based frameworks and automated CI/CD pipelines, cutting manual setup by 40%.

Oct 2021 — Sep 20254 yr · Flint, MI

EducationKettering University

Started Computer Science

B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in AI and a minor in Applied Mathematics.

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Software Engineer

Leading deployment of 72 AI cameras across 38 conveyors in the GM Flint plant, enabling real-time computer vision monitoring at scale.

Developed an end-to-end automation pipeline for camera configuration, covering onboarding, pilot, and production, reducing setup time from 5-6 weeks to 2-3 days for TPMs across 7 GM plants.

Maintained and updated technical documentation and tools for the camera onboarding process, ensuring accuracy across pipeline changes.

AI/ML Engineer

Optimized a local LLM with agentic RAG for in-vehicle edge deployment, reducing inference latency by 35% and enabling a real-time voice-based driver alertness system, improving engagement by 20%.

Developed an ML-based hand gesture recognition system for in-cabin controls; showcased at CES 2023 and planned for deployment across 5M+ vehicles by 2025.

Built reusable backend libraries for math, vector, and matrix operations, eliminating 30% of redundant code; added OpenCV, OpenGL, and Vulkan-based frameworks and automated CI/CD pipelines, cutting manual setup by 40%.