About
I study aeronautical and astronautical engineering at Purdue and graduate in May 2028. I speak English, intermediate Spanish and basic Czech.
Other interests: rock climbing, travel ice hockey, competitive gymnastics, building and flying drones and RC planes, photography, videography and VFX, and 3D printing.
Airman Certificate
Private Pilot, Airplane Single-Engine Land, with an Instrument Rating. Over 200 hours in PA-28 Warriors and Archers and Cessna 172s. Commercial checkride planned for February 2027.
Work
Aug 2026 – Jan 2027
Fellow, Entrepreneur First
Finding a co-founder and testing which problems are worth building a company around.
Apr 2026 – present
AI Research Trainer, Handshake AI
Multi-step research prompts that test AI web-search agents, and search trajectories that become their training data.
Jun – Aug 2025
Structures & Avionics Engineering Intern, Western Aircraft
SolidWorks drawings for structural repairs and alterations on the PC-12, G550 and King Air, and tooling for the PC-24, PC-12 and Falcon.
Aug 2024 – Oct 2025
Propulsion Engineer, Purdue Space Program
A hydrogen–oxygen torch igniter, designed on a team of five, and a Python library that automates NASA CEA.
Jul 2023 – Aug 2024
Built an escape room
The electrical systems behind its puzzles and their embedded code, on a tight budget in a fixed space.