Naval architecture & marine engineering student

I switched into naval architecture this year, which means I don't have naval-specific projects to show yet — that's coming. What I do have is a few years of research and robotics work that got me here: 3D imaging pipelines for a machine learning model, a medical device prototype, and two robotics teams I helped lead through build seasons.

Alongside the major, I'm doing a minor in Computer Science — which is really just formal recognition of the software side of things I was already doing: machine learning pipelines, embedded systems for competition drones, and my current job as a developer at an AI company in Grand Rapids, building interfaces and backend APIs. Most of that code ends up on my GitHub.

Most recently that has also meant working as a research assistant on 3D heart vessel imaging and helping a student product-development team prototype an adaptive medical device.

The common thread, as far as I can tell, is that I like problems where a system has to work in the physical world and not just on paper — which is a decent chunk of why naval architecture appealed to me in the first place.