About Me

I’m an Electrical Design Engineer at KLA, working on image computing systems. I’m most engaged by problems that live at the boundary between hardware and software, where abstractions eventually meet real-world constraints and small details matter.

A Few Things I Enjoy

Outside of engineering, I gravitate toward hobbies that reward patience, craftsmanship, and repetition. I enjoy brewing coffee at home, collecting and wearing mechanical watches, and practicing close-up sleight-of-hand, or as I like to call it, prestidigitation. I’m also drawn to photography and videography as ways of slowing down and paying attention.

For balance, I spend a good amount of time on the court playing tennis and pickleball. Both offer equal parts competition, rhythm, and problem-solving in motion.

Why Engineering Stuck

I’ve been around engineering for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I’d visit my father’s lab at Cisco Systems and watch him run tests on circuit boards late into the night. I didn’t understand the code, but I knew what it meant when the screen finally read “pass.” That moment, the quiet tension followed by certainty, stuck with me.

Around the same time, I watched my brother type lines of unfamiliar code and turn them into something tangible. A simple simulation became a cascade of falling blocks. It was my first glimpse into how invisible logic could produce visible, repeatable behavior.

Those early experiences shaped how I approach my work today. I’m still fascinated by the relationship between systems and outcomes, how software gives hardware purpose, and how hardware grounds software in reality.