About
Not another frontend developer.
I build intelligent systems that solve physical-world problems. Here's how I got here, and where I'm going.
It started with taking things apart.
Most engineers have the same origin story: a screwdriver, a device that used to work, and a parent who wasn't thrilled about it. Mine was no different. What stuck wasn't the disassembly; it was the realization that everything, no matter how magical it looks, is layers of understandable decisions stacked on top of each other.
Why semiconductors.
Software people rarely think about where compute comes from. I ended up on the other side of that curtain. At Applied Materials, I work on software for the machines that manufacture chips, an industry where a fingernail-sized die carries tens of billions of transistors and where a nanometer of drift is the difference between a working processor and expensive sand. It is the most consequential engineering happening anywhere, and most of the world never sees it.
Why AI.
Manufacturing at atomic scale generates data no human team can read: terabytes of sensor telemetry, millions of inspection images, decades of institutional process knowledge. AI is not a buzzword here; it is the only tool that scales to the problem. I build systems that turn that firehose into decisions: models that classify defects, detect drift before it costs yield, and put institutional knowledge one question away.
Why software.
Because software is the leverage point. The model is 10% of the work: the pipeline that feeds it, the service that runs it, the interface that earns an engineer's trust, and the feedback loop that keeps it honest are the other 90%. I care about that whole loop. That is what separates a demo from infrastructure.
Where this is going.
The next decade belongs to people who can work across the stack, from silicon to systems to intelligence. I'm building toward being an architect of AI systems for the physical world: manufacturing, hardware, infrastructure. The problems there are harder, the data is messier, and the impact is real. That's exactly why I want them.