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Teacher @ Oakland Technical High School, 8/21 – Now

Physics, AP Physics, Geometry, AP Statistics

• SVMK: a terminal-based virtual MIDI keyboard for SOUL Patches C++ JUCE SOUL CMake

Freelance Software Developer @ CodeGarden, 9/20 – 8/21

worked with a team of coders and directly with clients to design and develop commercial audio plugins

• TBA C++ JUCE CMake DSP FFT
• Entonal Studio: a microtonal scale editor and retuner C++ JUCE MIDI SQLite Catch2 CMake

Indie Software Developer, 9/19 – 9/20

• juce-plugin-ci: Continuous Integration for JUCE audio plugins with Github Actions CMake GitHub Actions
• Frequency Explorer: a web-based microtonal additive synthesizer HTML/CSS JavaScript Web Audio API
• scalemap: a string format and API for musical scales C C++ JavaScript Emscripten

Participant @ The Recurse Center, 7/19 – 9/19

a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers

• Repitch: a real-time, MIDI-controlled audio harmonizer C++ JUCE DSP SIMD

Research Intern @ Numenta, 12/18 – 4/19

theoretical neuroscience and machine learning research

• Spatial localization in simulated 1D + 2D environments with simple recurrent networks Python PyTorch Matplotlib

MS, Astronomy @ The University of Wisconsin–Madison, 6/15 – 8/17

observations and computational modeling of stellar evolution in binary star systems

• “Stellar Radial Velocities in the Old Open Cluster M67 (NGC 2682). II. The Spectroscopic Binary Population” Python IDL
• “A Curiously Young Star in an Eclipsing Binary in an Old Open Cluster” Python IDL

BS, Physics @ The College of New Jersey, 8/11 – 5/15

galactic jets, time-domain astrophysics, computational fluid dynamics

• “Variability in Active Galactic Nuclei from Propagating Relativistic Turbulent Jets” Mathematica C FORTRAN