• Computer Hardware Engineer
• Electrical and Computer Engineering grad student
• Fountain pen and calligraphy enthusiast
• Amateur guitarist

• Very good caligrapher
• Tolerable musician

I prefer to dream that burnished surfaces are a figuration and promise of the infinite.

--Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

That quote benefits from context. The story describes an infinite library of identical rooms with walls coated in books of (mostly) meaningless gibberish. I choose to believe that, like the library, most naturally-occuring things are inherently meaningless, but that vacuum of purpose leaves us free to imbue anything with any meaning we choose. I try to choose wisely, in ways that bring me peace while doing my best to not deprive anyone else of that same opportunity.

In any case, that philosophy has led me to a few core interests and many, many more tangentially related ones. Some of the former are:

• Deepening my understanding of technology to better understand the people who build and interact with it
• Paying close attention to language (spoken, written, body, all of them) because it's the only way to be any more than just one person
• Studying physical sciences because the laws of the universe seem to form a language of their own
• Indulging any exploration of new topics, no matter how trivial or whimsical, as long as it doesn't endanger any of the preceding interests

Projects I'm currently working on include:

• A carrier board for SoM devices with a wide array of general-purpose peripherals
• A personal, from-scratch website to track my projects and share them with anyone who might be interested in replicating or building upon them
• A resin-printed fragrance sample holder stylized as a chunk of honeycomb
• A modern, intuitive thermostat for controlling and monitoring temperatures and humidities of reptile enclosures from a mobile app
• A printed circuit board coaster that detects when a drink is placed on it with an infrared proximity sensor and illuminates the outer perimeter in response