About
Full-time gap year engineer at Hack Club, creating open-source programs for teenagers to get into building around the world. Incoming freshman at MIT pursuing EECS (Course 6-5). I work across FPGA design, open-source hardware platforms, robotics, and medical imaging research.
Past
Founded Green Mountain Robotics across rural Vermont high schools. Won 3rd Place Grand Award at ISEF 2025 for pancreatic tumor segmentation research,first Grand Award winner in Vermont history. Led Robohawks to 4 consecutive state championships. Founded CVU Computer Science Club, teaching 25+ students weekly.
Future
Starting at MIT fall 2026, pursuing EECS (Course 6-5). Exploring open-source silicon, ASIC design tooling, and the intersection of hardware and AI.
Experience
Hack Club Software Engineer, Summer 2023 - Present
Built open-source platforms for national hardware programs. Ran hackathons in San Jose, Austin, Vienna, Singapore, and Shenzhen. Programs include Blueprint (25K students), Stasis (10K students), and Outpost (100K students).
MIT Lincoln Lab LLRISE Scholar
Selected research program.
BETA Technologies Intern, 2024
Internship at electric aviation startup.
GlobalFoundries Job Shadow, 2024
Semiconductor fabrication facility shadowing.
Projects
Blueprint Hack Club
Open-source Rails platform funding teen hardware projects. 25K+ users, 9.3K projects, $200K+ distributed. Partnered with AMD as part of their White House AI pledge. Lisa Su presented scholarship winners onstage at CES 2026.
Stasis Hack Club
Next.js/TypeScript platform for a 4-day hardware hackathon. 100+ Hack Clubbers from around the world in Austin, TX. Participants design 3 projects, get them funded, then build in-person.
Congressional Showcase Hack Club
Platform where student-built projects are presented to members of Congress.
Copper (KiCad Fork)
AI copilot for circuit design: a KiCad fork + engine that turns a plain-English board spec into a placed, wired schematic.
ASICify
Open compiler turning PyTorch models into synthesizable Verilog RTL, testbench, FPGA bitstream, and cost estimates across 11 hardware targets.
ATLAS Closed Source
FPGA-based adaptive packet scheduler written in Verilog for the Lattice iCE40UP5K. Reduces data center p99 tail latency by 55% and excess capacity by 70%.
Research
ATLAS: FPGA Adaptive Tail Latency Aware Scheduler 2025 - Present
Verilog data-center scheduler (Lattice iCE40) with a queue arbiter that adapts packet distribution based on server utilization. 55% queuing time reduction vs. industry baseline, 70% reduction in extra capacity needed.
U-Net for Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation 2024 - 2025
34-layer 3D CNN (TensorFlow/OpenVINO) trained on 282 MSKCC CT volumes. 75% segmentation accuracy vs. 68% for radiologists. Diagnoses months before professionals could.
Awards
Science Fair
Regeneron ISEF 2025 3rd Place Grand Award,first in Vermont history
Regeneron ISEF 2026 Finalist
ISEF 2026 Chief of Naval Research Scholarship Award
ISEF 2026 Midwest Microelectronics Consortium Special Award
Yale Science & Engineering Association Most Outstanding Exhibit
National
Presidential Scholars Semifinalist 2026
Coca-Cola Scholars Program Semifinalist
Vermont Congressional App Challenge Winner (U.S. House)
Robotics
FIRST Robotics Competition Dean's List International Finalist
FIRST Tech Challenge Dean's List International Finalist
FRC Rookie All-Star & World Championship Division Highest Rookie Seed
FRC Engineering Inspiration Award
FTC: 4x Vermont State Championships, Inspire Award, International Judges' Choice
Robotics
RoboHawks #5741 FTC, Captain & Lead Programmer
4x Vermont State Champions. Coached FIRST LEGO League and mentored 250+ students across 15 robotics teams.
Green Mountain Robotics #9101 FRC, Founding Member
Founded across 6 rural Vermont high schools after our school denied funding. Raised $50K+, sole programmer, 20+ members. Rookie All-Star, World Championship.
Leadership
CVU Computer Science Club Founder & President
Grew from 0 to 30 members. Taught 25+ students weekly. Organized Snowbound, Vermont's largest high school hackathon.
STEM Advocacy
Briefed Rep. Balint & Sen. Welch. Helped launch 3 FRC teams and Vermont's first FRC/FTC qualifiers.
Education
MIT Class of 2030, Early Action
B.S. EECS (Course 6-5). Starting fall 2026.
University of Vermont Dual Enrollment, 4.0
Grad-level EE 5460 Microfabrication, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Electronics, Physics E&M.
Champlain Valley Union HS Class of 2026
4.25/4.33 UW GPA. SAT 1540.
Hackathons
Staffed At
Hackathons I've helped run/staff at Hack Club, organized by my friends.
Personally Organized
Hackathons I've personally organized and ran.
Writing
I Reverse-Engineered Claude Code Jun 2026
Made it 100x better to use and built 11 systems that make it 40% more efficient.
Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation with CNNs Apr 2026
A U-Net that segments pancreatic tumors better than radiologists, in under a second.
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about my projects or just want to chat. I'd love to meet you.
