R&D Engineering Intern

Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State — State College, PA — Sep 2024 - Nov 2025

• Created a sizing estimation algorithm for anchoring systems for autonomous submarines using MATLAB
• Designed, modeled, and 3D-printed custom parts for autonomous submarines using SolidWorks
• Worked on 3 secret-level projects and was read into 1 top-secret project

MATLABSolidWorks

Penn State ARL

Engineering Intern

Nittany Laser Technologies — Philipsburg, PA — May 2024 - Aug 2024

• Designed and built an industrial laser cladding machine from custom components that sold for over $200K
• Used CAD/CAM to design, optimize, and iterate production-ready parts
• Created a glass tube laser cutting robot and a welding robot from scratch parts
• Performed a complete overhaul of their website

SolidWorksAcornCNCArduinoGCode

NittanyLaserTech.com

Undergraduate Researcher

Engineering Design and Optimization Group — University Park, PA — Nov 2023 - Dec 2024

• Co-authored an SFF conference paper on the feasibility of robotic arms in non-planar additive manufacturing
• Designed and manufactured over 30 acoustic dampener samples for aerospace applications
• Programmed and tested ABB robotic arms for non-planar FDM printing

ABB roboticsROSLaTeX

EDOG at Penn State

Software Engineering Intern

Notibuy — Seattle, WA — Oct 2025 - Jan 2026

• Used Bolt, Supabase, and n8n to create the full stack for their Veribuy platform
• Created a modular web scraping element that can bypass all standard anti-bot filters

BoltSupabasen8nPython

Founder [ current ]

SnackScout LLC — State College, PA — Sep 2024 - Present

• Created a live-updating calendar that scrapes free food data from Penn State clubs
• Coded backend automations to scrape food event data from GroupMe, Slack, Discord, a website chatbot, and email
• Roughly 100 weekly users; has helped find 600+ meals
• Won the 3 Dots Downtown Awesome Grant for $1,000 (October 2025)

Reactn8nSupabaseFirecrawl

TheSnackScout.com

Door-to-Door Sales Representative

T-Mobile Fiber — May 2026 - June 2026

• Sold T-Mobile fiber installation services door to door, averaging 2.3 sales per day
• Worked 12-hour days, 6 days a week
• Took the job deliberately: I had spent years building technical things and could not sell them, so I put myself somewhere I would have to learn or fail visibly

Activity Head

Camp Agawam — Raymond, ME — Summers 2022 and 2023

• Ran the camp woodshop, teaching hand and power tool skills to campers
• Ran lawn games programming
• Earned American Red Cross Lifeguarding, Wilderness First Aid, and CPR/AED certifications

campagawam.org

Resident [ current ]

ACRN — Oak Street, San Francisco — June 2026 - August 2026

• Residency program at a hacker house for builders — engineers, founders, and finance people who ship after dinner
• House principles: make the thing, doors open, leave it better, plant for later
• 41 hackathons won across the house and counting

acrn.space

President [ current ]

co.space — State College, PA — May 2025 - Present

• Joined May 2025; became Entrepreneur in Residence in fall 2025; became President in May 2026

thecospace.com

Member, Board of Directors [ current ]

The Daily Collegian — State College, PA — Jun 2025 - Present

• Meeting and working with editors, writers, and journalists to produce Penn State’s number one daily paper
• Working with other board members to optimize a budget of over $500K

The Daily Collegian

Financial Literacy Student Ambassador

Sokolov-Miller Family Financial and Life Skills Center — University Park, PA — Oct 2023 - Jun 2024

• Regularly delivered presentations on financial topics such as tax law, budgeting, and investing
• Held one-on-one financial tutoring for dozens of Penn State students and alumni

Penn State Financial Literacy Center

Director

National Youth Leadership Training, BSA — Washington Crossing Council — Dec 2022 - May 2023

• Directed and oversaw the training of 16 other staff members
• Programmed and facilitated thirteen days of leadership education content
• Educated roughly 250 scouts over five terms on NYLT staff

Washington Crossing Council NYLT

Engineering Learning Assistant, ENGR 310 [ current ]

Penn State — University Park, PA — Nov 2025 - Present

• Creating the syllabus and lesson plans for next semester
• Working with professors and students to create a better program
• Teaching hard skills on web development, AI tools, MCP, and agents

ENGR 310: Entrepreneurial Leadership