I don't think in components. I think in systems that have to survive contact with the real world.

Engineering, to me, is a discipline before it's a career. Every build I take on — in the air, on the workshop floor, or underwater — starts with the same question: what is this thing actually going to have to withstand, and have I designed for that, or just for the spec sheet?

I got here through drones. Learning to keep something airborne teaches you fast that elegant math and a working prototype are two very different things — tolerances compound, vibration finds every weak joint, and the part you didn't stress-test is the part that fails. That lesson has followed me into everything since, from running a small manufacturing operation to now building underwater.

Outside the shop, I train. Fitness isn't separate from how I engineer — both are about showing up for incremental, unglamorous progress and trusting that it compounds. Discipline in the gym and discipline at the workbench are the same muscle.

This site is my archive, not my highlight reel. It's where I log what I've built, what I'm building now, and what I'm still figuring out.