Tiger Strake

Aerospace hardware is the main thing — propulsion, structural design with real weight budgets, embedded systems that have to work with the physics rather than around it. That's where most of my time goes.

I've recently gotten into mountaineering, which I wasn't expecting to love as much as I do. There's something about committing to a route on incomplete information — deciding when to push and when to turn back — that maps surprisingly well to how I think about test programs and flight operations.

Outside of that: orbital mechanics, bouncing half-formed ideas off people, and cooking. Night owl by nature. Most productive when it's quiet and something's running on the bench.

I hold EASA and FAA Private Pilot Licences with single-engine piston ratings and night qualification. Currently training for multi-engine, high-performance, and helicopter endorsements.

The appeal isn't complicated. You can just go, whenever, wherever. And the view from up there is hard to beat. More on this on the flight page.

Aerospace and hardware internships where the work involves real build and test, not slide preparation. Research tied to actual systems with measurable results. Technical teams where execution matters and people build things rather than describe building things.