Own electromechanical architecture for solar farm construction robotics.

• Designed a dual-mode end effector managing a 75:1 load ratio across operational modes through purely mechanical means — compliant alignment at 200 lbf, rigid constraint at 3,400 lbf/side.

• Developed a rugged module carrier with load-decoupled locking mechanism, minimizing actuation force regardless of system loading or misalignment.

Designing the mechanisms that let robots interact with the physical world

Owned vacuum systems and compliant end effectors across all product lines for AI-powered parcel sorting robots.

• Led the design and development of custom electromechanical systems, integrating PCBs, solenoids, vacuum systems, and controls.

• Built airflow models and custom test rigs to establish go/no-go performance criteria.

• Supported national field deployments, managing installation teams and feeding learnings back into design.

• Stood up design documentation standards, inventory control, and product lifecycle processes to support scaling.

One of three engineers at a $200M ARR company designing, prototyping, and manufacturing premium Pilates and fitness equipment. In-house machine shop, woodshop, and textiles, full lifecycle from concept through production.

• Developed a space-efficient drive and selection mechanism for a flagship product — reduced BOM from 11 to 3 components, cutting mechanism cost by 80%.

• Integrated closed-form computational analysis into the product development process, enabling rapid design changes through iterations.

• Designed custom tooling saving $120K+ in prototyping costs.

Joined early to help build a manufacturing startup disrupting the Northern California commercial construction market. The bet was that automation on the shop floor and better front-end data management could undercut the incumbents on speed and cost.

• Designed a 9,500 sq ft fabrication facility from the ground up - modeled budget, throughput, and staffing across three production stages.

• Built the training programs and process flows to get the team operational.

Partnership didn't last, but the zero-to-one experience of standing up a manufacturing operation from bare concrete stuck with me.