Tesla -> Software Engineer
- High performance IPC/RPC middleware.
- Robotaxi, EU/NZ/AU FSD launch.
Aethero -> Hardware Engineer
- Helped bring up Phobos, the company’s second orbital compute satellite.
Contrary Capital -> Venture Partner
- Sourced/invested in exceptional founders.
- Met many ridiculously passionate and driven people through the venture partner program. Raised my personal/professional standards.
University of Michigan -> Computer Architecture TA
- Taught lab sections on hardware design using SystemVerilog.
- Helped students design a synthesizable out of order RISC-V processor for the Pentium6 and MIPS R10K register renaming styles.
- Developed a Piazza addiction.
University of Michigan -> Research Assistant, CE Lab
- GPU acceleration for heterogeneous memory/compute bound workloads. Published in VLDB 2025.
- Presented to AMD Research, Meta, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, HEAVY.ai.
- Realised I don’t have the patience for a PhD.
Tesla -> Software Engineering Intern
- Performance monitoring tooling, summer release-defining features.
- Continued my education in technology brotherhood at the heart of Silicon Valley.
Tesla -> Software Engineering Intern
- Revamped on-screen PRND gear slider for the 2024 Model 3; misc navigation features.
- Enjoyed rides in the Cybertruck and new Model 3; survived the BART and Caltrain as well.
University of Michigan -> Logic Design TA
- Co-created and maintained the course’s RTL DV platform.
- Led a lab section on FPGA prototyping using Verilog (Modelsim for simulation, Quartus Prime for synthesis/PnR/STA for Altera DE2-115 boards).
- Evaluations indicated students didn’t hate me.
MARA Holdings -> Engineering Intern
- Optimised merged mining protocols, deployed nodes on AWS EC2 instances for testing.
- Was not paid in Bitcoin.
Zepto (FKA KiranaKart) -> Ops/Growth/Engineering
- Startup was just getting off the ground; worked on many engineering/ growth projects.
- Also answered customer support calls and made deliveries on occasion.