Substrate
currentAI Product Engineer on a digital equipment financing platform. Product design, UI/UX, backend, AWS infra — primary on-call, often owns massive projects solo.
education
University of Waterloo
B.Eng (Co-op)
Data structures, algorithms, embedded systems, digital logic & Verilog, assembly · specializing toward ML/AI
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ventures founded
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Experience
- AI Product Engineering Intern Substrate Industries Sep 2025→
- Software Engineering Intern Com-IT Innovation Jan–Apr 2025
- Engineering Intern Affordable EBikes May–Aug 2024
- Team Member Electrium Mobility · UWaterloo EV design team Sep 2023→
- Founder ×3 Site4u · SigmaCoders · Quick Chat 2021–2023
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Endeavours
Real-time segmentation (SegFormer-B0, 92% mIoU) at 20Hz to a custom STM32 rig. 5km autonomous, 97% reliable.
Founded & run a 25-member team shipping 30+ full-stack apps, 100% on time. CI/CD cut deploys from 2h to 15min.
Com-IT Innovation
Shipped a React/Node.js portal serving 700+ DAU; cut page-load time 35%. OAuth2.0/JWT auth, GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Arduino drones
2 drones designed from scratch — code, PID, schematics, 3D models — over 3 years, grade 8 to 12. Now building target lock-on in C++.
Electromagnetic roller coaster
400+ hours, 12-hour days, one month. Electromagnets and sensors manage cart speed and stop carts from colliding.
more endeavours
- NEAT car simulation Cars evolve neural nets via pygame + neat-python. Python · NEAT
- supercapacitor RC vehicle FPV + GPS rover with fast-charge supercapacitors. Arduino · FPV · GPS
- Quick-Chat.ca A chat platform built around ruthless simplicity. chat · simplicity
- G BIKES Affordable eBikes built from car alternators. EV · hardware
- SigmaCoders.ca Programming tutoring platform, certification included. founder · edtech
- Medicine dispenser Automated dosage management on an STM32. STM32 · embedded
- The Door Stop Wireless electromagnetic doorstop, built in two weeks. electromagnet · wireless
- Emergency Shelter Grade-10 disaster-relief shelter design. design · relief
- WoLife (GunnHacks 7.0) Hackathon build (GunnHacks 7.0). hackathon
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Awards
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CNML — national top scorer, Chinguacousy SS
2021–22
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3rd place, ROPSSAA badminton (doubles)
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2nd place, ROPSSAA tennis · OFSAA qualifier
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2nd place, 100m medley · competitive swimming (Barracuda club)
research
My research & papers
research desk
Papers, experiments, and notes from ongoing work.
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Why Large Language Models Seem to Overuse Em-Dashes: Evidence, Mechanisms, and Limits of a Widely Noticed AI-Writing Signal
A cautious research review of the em-dash as an AI-writing signal: what has been measured, why the pattern may emerge, and why a punctuation mark is not authorship proof.
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Cost-Aware Language Adaptation in Large Language Models: A Framework for Low-Resource Languages
A targeted literature synthesis on adapting large language models for low-resource languages under practical constraints: tokenization efficiency, compute, and catastrophic forgetting.
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