About Me
I'm a hardware systems engineer who owns the full signal chain, from analog front-end design to FPGA architecture to PCB layout, building the electronics that power next-generation medical robotics and precision instruments.
Right now I'm the Lead Electrical/Electronics Engineer at Meniscense, a five-person startup in Hudson, MA, where I lead development of a new precision optical sensing instrument. I own the signal chain end to end: the low-noise analog front end, the multilayer board, the FPGA acquisition and on-hardware DSP, and the path into host software, working alongside the mechanical and software engineers. I also run the project side: setting technical direction, sourcing components, choosing and managing the PCB and assembly houses, and owning the timeline through delivery. I started there as the analog design engineer, carrying the front-end board from schematic through layout, DFM, and fabrication, bringing up a high-speed acquisition path on a Xilinx FPGA, and writing the real-time filtering and demodulation that runs on it.
Before that, at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, I designed a room-temperature MEG brain imaging system that eliminates the need for cryogenic cooling. By developing custom hand-wound coils and running extensive Python field simulations, I reduced system costs by over $500,000 while improving field nullification accuracy, and did it inside an active clinical imaging environment supporting human trials.
Outside the lab, I co-founded FIRST LEGO League Namibia: built the robotics curriculum, trained the local coaches, and ran the country's first competition. The program is still running, and I still help it grow.
I hold a BS in Robotics Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, graduated with High Distinction, and I'm finishing an MS in Robotics Engineering there in December 2026. I work at the intersection of analog, digital, and embedded systems, designing hardware that doesn't exist yet, end to end.
Skills
Analog & Mixed-Signal
- Precision signal chain design
- Low-noise amplification
- Sensor and photodiode front ends
- Data converters (SAR ADC, DAC)
- Noise and SNR analysis
- Power supply design and sequencing
- Shielding and EMI mitigation
- SPICE
PCB Design
- Altium Designer
- Schematic capture, hierarchical design
- Multilayer stackup and impedance control
- DRC/DFM and fab coordination
- BOM management
- Board rework and reflow
FPGA & Digital
- Verilog, VHDL
- Vivado, Xilinx Artix-7 / Zynq
- DDR3 / MIG
- Clock domain crossing
- Timing closure
- USB 3.0
Embedded & Interfaces
- C, C++
- SPI, I2C, UART, CAN bus, LVDS
- Servo and motion control
- Sensor integration
Digital Signal Processing
- FIR and IIR filter design
- Multirate processing
- FFT and spectral analysis
- Homodyne (I/Q) and coherent demodulation
- Matched filtering
- Fixed-point, real-time on-hardware DSP
Programming & Tools
- Python
- MATLAB / Simulink
- Git, Linux
- PetaLinux
Test & Validation
- Oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer
- Hardware bring-up
- Root cause analysis
Mechanical & Fabrication
- SolidWorks
- 3D printing, CNC machining
- Rapid prototyping
- Soldering, SMT assembly