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