Aerospace engineer at L3Harris. Missile solutions and in-space systems.
I'm 21. I finished aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan in three years with a minor in materials science, and I'm now a design engineer at L3Harris, where I interned across 2024 and 2025 before joining full-time.
Day to day, I work on missile solutions and in-space systems — mechanical design, structural analysis, and integration on hardware that has to survive flight. Some of it sits inside NASA-facing programs; some of it doesn't. I also spend part of my time on the seam between engineering data and language models — model-based definition, RAG, semantic search — trying to figure out where AI can actually compress cycle time inside an aerospace review process, and where it can't.
I speak too. In 2025 I presented at the 76th International Astronautical Congress in Sydney on how Gen Z, the private sector, and shifting regulation are reshaping aerospace. I've been giving talks since I was a teenager and it's still one of the things I enjoy most.
The through-line, if there is one: I rebuilt an electric skateboard at 13, dropped a lawnmower engine onto a cruiser motorcycle at 14, and rebuilt a totaled car in my garage at 15. The scale changed. The instinct didn't.
A read on where the industry is heading from inside the generation that will build most of it — private-public dynamics, regulation catching up to a commercial-led sector, and what sustainable growth actually looks like from here.
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