Oct 2025 to Present

Boulder, CO

R&D Engineer

Rooted Robotics

Full-stack across software, cloud, and hardware, taking a robotics platform from R&D to shipped, production machines.

• Led the architectural pivot from SD to SC Teknik motors, refactoring the R&D codebase to production-grade in under three weeks.
• Built a multi-tenant IoT & ERP monorepo with React, Fastify, and tRPC, using shared TypeScript contracts for end-to-end type safety.
• Engineered a real-time MQTT pipeline on AWS IoT Core with buffered batch writes to optimize DB performance and observability.
• Designed a domain-driven backend, 5 isolated services and PostgreSQL Row-Level Security enforcing isolation across 24+ tables.
• Built a browser-based BLE provisioning system via the Web Bluetooth API, removing the dependency on a native mobile app.
• Managed AWS (EC2, RDS, Lambda) with Terraform and GitHub Actions, including automated device-lifecycle tracking.
• Introduced DIN-rail electrical architecture with overcurrent protection, fail-safe E-stop circuitry, and segregated AC/DC routing.
• Self-taught Onshape to model resin parts for a new laser-gate feature, now standard on every machine.

Jun 2025 to Oct 2025

Remote

AI Engineering Intern

Softel Communications

Built production AI infrastructure, multi-agent services and retrieval pipelines on Azure.

• Architected a production multi-agent AI microservice on Azure OpenAI and Mastra, 4 specialized agents with MCP integration for analytics, security, and troubleshooting.
• Built an end-to-end RAG pipeline using Azure Cosmos DB vector search and OpenAI embeddings.
• Engineered MongoDB schemas and GraphQL resolvers for audit logging and real-time streaming via Server-Sent Events.
• Implemented a hierarchical document-management backend with Change Data Capture event sourcing and security middleware (JWT validation, CLS context propagation).

Jun 2024 to Sep 2024

Remote

Software Engineering Intern

Cigna Healthcare

Hardened the security of healthcare APIs handling sensitive data.

• Remediated 75+ OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and enforced TLS / Bcrypt encryption to meet enterprise security standards.
• Found a critical flaw transmitting employee passwords in plaintext; implemented bcrypt hashing and enforced TLS on internal API calls to stop credential leakage.