experience

Grainger Engineering Design Innovation Lab

Technical Employee

Sep 2025 – Present • 3D printing, rapid prototyping, electronics

Support student, faculty, and research projects in a 25k+ sq ft makerspace. I maintain software for job intake, queue optimization, and status monitoring across 45+ 3D printers, and help with equipment training, shop operations, and safety.

AV

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2026 – Aug 2026 • Rust, Python, GStreamer, FFmpeg, OpenCV, embedded Linux

Built a 16-bit infrared video recording pipeline in Rust, with custom processing plugins for capture, encoding, compression, and per-frame timestamps. I also developed camera latency measurement tools and a synchronized EO/LWIR video overlay tool that doubled data annotation efficiency.

OktoRocket

Software Engineering Intern · Part-time

Apr 2022 – Aug 2025 • React, platform reliability

Refactored a legacy React app used by thousands of clients and improved core features as the platform scaled from roughly 50 to 1,000+ locations. Reliability improvements supported 2M+ texts and 30k+ hours of audio transcription each month.

Hydrant Pay

Founding Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Jul 2025 • Payment workflows, financial integrations, user interfaces

Built interfaces for influencer talent agencies to manage invoices and contract payment splits. I designed backend integrations for early invoice payments, helping the platform process $500k+ in billing for 50+ clients within its first months.

Tamarak Day Camp

Lead Summer Camp Counselor · Seasonal

Jun 2022 – Jul 2025

Led groups of 15+ six-year-old campers and mentored 20+ junior counselors in leadership and conflict resolution. I also flew 10+ drone operations to capture photos and video for camp marketing.

projects

stevenson.space

Feb 2022 – May 2025 • Vue, Sass, TypeScript, AWS Textract, Netlify

Ran stevenson.space, an open‑source hub used weekly by 4k+ students for schedules, lunch, events, GPA tools, and a student music feature. The Vue/Sass/TypeScript platform scaled to 80k+ monthly views and stayed reliable for three years.

SHSMaps

Mar 2023 – May 2025 • Next, OCR, Tailwind, Vercel

Built SHSMaps, an indoor maps experience for a 1M+ sq ft campus that turns class schedules into turn‑by‑turn directions in a PWA. The launch reached 5.7k users in the first month while I partnered with school leadership on privacy and security.

Windy City Hacks

Dec 2023 – Jul 2024 • Event Ops, Sponsorships, Outreach, Nuxt

I led Windy City Hacks, a 24-hour Chicago hackathon for 70 peers, and handled everything from sponsorships to day‑of logistics. We raised $4k+ to fund meals, venue costs, and prizes while building a cross‑school community.

Koal

Jan 2020 – Jun 2024 • TypeScript, Python, Nuxt, Firebase

I founded Koal, a SaaS platform that automated Discord integrations for Roblox communities and grew to tens of thousands of users. I built and operated the full stack across TypeScript, Python, Nuxt, Firebase, and Docker, while leading a small volunteer team.

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