About

From rockets to AI

I test flight-critical rocket hardware for a living. On the RS-25 program I run cryogenic inspections, develop test sequences to flight-qualification standards, and operate the pressurized systems that verify an engine is safe to fly. The job is unforgiving about one thing above all: nothing ships until it is verified.

On nights and weekends I took that same discipline and pointed it at AI/ML infrastructure. Self-taught and self-built, I now design and operate real, production-style systems — an agentic RAG knowledge base that measurably cut research time, a ~32k-LOC local multi-agent platform with an adversarial peer-review loop, and a two-node multi-GPU cluster that serves local models with a privacy-first architecture.

The through-line is reliability engineering: measured-not-asserted numbers, reproducible config-as-truth, least-privilege and fail-closed defaults, and testing before shipping. I am looking for remote-first work building trustworthy, tested AI infrastructure.

How I work

Principles

Timeline

Where I've been

  1. 2025 — Present

    Test Engineer — RS-25 flight engines

    Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris)

    • Cryogenic inspections, leak checks, and flight-readiness testing to flight-qualification standards.
    • Self-initiated: built an agentic RAG knowledge base over a large enterprise technical-documentation corpus.
  2. 2024 — Present

    AI Infrastructure Engineer (self-directed)

    Personal — Local AI Infrastructure Lab

    • Designed and operate a modular, offline-capable multi-agent LLM platform (~32k LOC).
    • Stood up a two-node multi-GPU cluster with containerized model serving and fault recovery.
  3. 2024 — 2025

    Manufacturing Engineer

    Aerojet Rocketdyne (L3Harris)

    • Authored and executed 40+ V&V procedures and acceptance protocols.
    • Built Python/VBA automation and led production capacity modeling for the assembly facility.
  4. 2023 — 2024

    Systems Engineer T1

    Leidos

    • DoD/Navy underwater acoustic systems integration and testing.
    • Automated PCB acceptance testing with LabVIEW (~5× faster); authored V&V protocols.
  5. 2022 — 2023

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Raspet Flight Research Lab — Mississippi State University

    • BVLOS UAV flight testing (ArduPilot / PX4); engineering analysis in MATLAB.
Education
B.S. Aerospace Engineering (Astronautics), Minor in Mathematics — Mississippi State University, 2023
Citizenship
U.S. citizen. Held a prior U.S. security clearance (currently inactive) — details on request.