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Experience

Places where the work had consequences.

Internships, research, a startup, and the operational jobs that taught me how teams actually run — newest first.

  1. Jun 2026 — Aug 2026

    Internship

    Engineer Intern

    Wabtec Corporation · Astana, Kazakhstan

    Locomotive engineering at Wabtec's LKZ facility, which assembles the ES44ACi — a 4,400 hp Evolution Series freight locomotive — for Kazakhstan's national railway.

    • Performed wire routing for the ES44ACi auxiliary cabin's electronic controls in Siemens NX, localizing the US hardware design to Kazakhstani specifications alongside electrical integration and controls engineers
    • Identified and filed an approved Product Change Request correcting 3 erroneous helper's-console harness callouts in official design documentation — catching an error that would have caused incorrect assembly on production units
    • Authored from-scratch assembly instructions for the first ES44ACi auxiliary cabin localization at LKZ, coordinating across technicians, sourcing, mechanical, and electrical integration engineers
    • Authored 1,502 operator-facing HMI error messages covering the locomotive's thermal, sensor, mechanical, and electrical fault spectrum
    • Trained 80 testers on Wabtec's Reliance digital test platform and led the digitization of 26 chapters of commercial test plans — 1,700+ test lines — coordinating 3 other interns
    Siemens NXWabtec ReliancePCR ProcessWire Harness Design

  2. May 2026

    Internship

    Product Engineering Intern

    SYNK · San Francisco, CA

    Product engineering for an AI-powered virtual experiences platform, working directly with the founders.

    • Developed and tested frontend and backend components for core platform features
    • Ran user-feedback analysis and feature validation loops with the founding team
    • Contributed to a 40% reduction in feature iteration time through structured development and feedback workflows
    TypeScriptRapid Prototyping

  3. Nov 2025 — Present

    Startup

    Founder

    Chronos · Happy Valley LaunchBox, Penn State

    Founded and built an AI-powered scheduling platform for students — product, engineering, and business, solo.

    • Architected and shipped the full platform: constraint-based AI scheduling engine, React/TypeScript frontend, Supabase backend, Cloudflare Pages/Workers deployment
    • Grew to 100+ signed-up users; secured $2,000 in competitive funding after completing the Idea TestLab and MVP DevLab accelerator programs
    • Conducted 30+ customer discovery interviews; 74% of students surveyed reported significant planning-related stress
    • Iterated the drag-and-drop calendar view based on direct beta user feedback, after early testers found the initial scheduling flow difficult to adjust manually
    TypeScriptReactSupabaseCloudflare
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  4. Jun 2025 — Present

    Research

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    CASA-Goes Lab, Penn State · University Park, PA

    Research on controlling autonomous systems with assurances — perception, state estimation, and control pipelines validated in simulation before hardware deployment.

    • Implemented and tuned PID control for closed-loop trajectory tracking; integrated odometry, IMU, and camera streams via sensor fusion for real-time state estimation
    • Designed and executed 100+ controlled experiments validating accuracy and stability under simulated sensor noise — improving trajectory stability by 28% through iterative refinement
    • Operated a multi-process ROS node graph on Linux, managing real-time publisher/subscriber timing
    ROSPythonDuckietownDockerLinux

  5. Jun 2025 — Present

    Work

    Team Lead (Tier 2)

    Pattee & Paterno Libraries, Penn State · University Park, PA

    Promoted to Tier 2 — the highest student-employee level — leading service operations at Penn State's main library.

    • Lead an 8-person service team per shift in a facility serving 500+ patrons a day
    • Own opening/closing procedures, end-of-day walkthroughs, staff coverage, and queue flow
    • Handle patron account escalations: fines, billing, and policy enforcement

  6. Oct 2024 — Oct 2025

    Work

    Crew Leader

    Penn State Dining · University Park, PA

    Supervised student dining staff and redesigned the operation's closing procedure.

    • Supervised 7–10 student staff per shift across operations, assignments, and safety compliance
    • Redesigned the nightly closing procedure, cutting completion time by 45 minutes per shift — consistently finishing ahead of schedule

  7. Dec 2024 — Jan 2025

    Work

    Analyst

    Alliance Minerals · Kazakhstan

    Mining-sector analysis for a family mineral exploration business during winter break.

    • Analyzed KAZRC and CRIRSCO international mineral-reporting standards and JORC code comparisons
    • Developed mineral-deposit sales methodology and M&A workflow documentation supporting due diligence and investment contract processes

  8. 2024 — 2025

    Teaching

    Python Instructor

    Independent

    Taught Python programming to high school students ages 13–17.

    • Designed lecture materials from scratch covering data structures and problem-solving fundamentals
    • Translated technical concepts into age-appropriate instruction for pre-university students