One line through five years. Scroll, and the year on the right keeps pace with you.
2022Ignition
2023First contact
2024High voltage
2025Taking command
2026Escape velocity
2022Ignition
Milestone
High school graduation
The last day everything was decided for me. I knew I wanted to build things that move, and engineering was the way in.
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Cap and gown photo outside the school with my family.
Milestone
First day of Computer Engineering
Walked into the University of Manitoba as a computer engineering student. Everything on this map traces back to this decision.
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Photo of the engineering atrium on day one, student card in hand.
Project
First C program that did something real
A tiny terminal game for an intro course. The first time code stopped being abstract and started being a thing I made.
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Screen recording of the terminal game running for the first time.
Photography
Bought my first camera
A used body and one lens. Photography became how I learned to actually look at light, which later made me care about how things are presented.
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The first frame I ever shot: a streetlight in falling snow.
Milestone
Survived first exam season
Proof I could handle the load. The confidence from this term is what made me feel ready to join a design team.
2023First contact
FSAE
Found the FSAE Electric team
Stopped at a club fair table with a half-built race car on it. Signed up on the spot. The single most important five minutes of university so far.
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The club fair table with the previous season chassis on display.
FSAE
First workshop night
Learned the shop rules, met the leads, and got handed my first real task. Being trusted with hardware changed how seriously I took everything else.
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Late night in the shop, the car up on stands.
Project
Built the Music Spectrum Analyzer
My first full-stack hardware project: audio in, FFT, LEDs out. Taught me DSP fundamentals and how to finish a project, not just start one.
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The LED matrix pulsing to a song, first successful run.
Photography
First photography road trip
A weekend chasing prairie storms with the camera. The discipline of shooting deliberately carried straight back into how I document engineering work.
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Lightning over a canola field outside Winnipeg.
FSAE
First firmware task on the car
A small CAN bus node, but it ran on the actual vehicle. First time my code lived inside something that could hurt you if you got it wrong.
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The bench setup: dev board, CAN analyzer, and a very long logic trace.
2024High voltage
FSAE
Joined the accumulator build
HV pack assembly, cell testing, and safety procedure. Working around 400 volts teaches a kind of care that no course does.
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Gloved hands torquing busbars inside the accumulator container.
Project
Rocket League bot beat the in-game AI
My reinforcement learning bot finally won a match. Months of reward shaping paid off, and it became my proof that I could take ML from tutorial to result.
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Clip of the winning goal, bot on the left.
FSAE
BMS firmware bring-up
Brought up the battery management firmware and watched real cell voltages stream in for the first time. The moment firmware became my lane on the team.
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Terminal full of cell telemetry next to the open pack.
Milestone
Hardest term begins
Third year: signals, embedded systems, and a full car build at the same time. Learning to schedule myself like a project was the real course.
Photography
Winnipeg at minus 30, on film
A winter photo series in brutal cold. Batteries die, fingers stop working, and you learn to plan every shot before you leave the house.
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Steam rising off the river at sunrise, minus 30 air.
2025Taking command
FSAE
Named Autonomous Systems Lead
Handed the driverless program. Suddenly my job was not just writing code but deciding what a 10-person team builds and in what order.
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Whiteboard photo from the first autonomy planning meeting.
FSAE
Recruited the autonomy team
Interviewed and onboarded ten people across perception, mapping, and controls. Leading people turned out to be a harder engineering problem than the car.
FSAE
First SLAM demo on real data
Cone landmarks and a pose graph built from a recorded run, live on screen. The first evidence that autonomous by 2028 is a plan and not a poster.
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Screen capture of the SLAM map forming as the log replays.
Project
Started BMO, an embodied AI agent
A desk robot with a local LLM brain. My sandbox for the perception-to-action loop that the race car needs at a much bigger scale.
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BMO tracking a face and responding on its little screen.
FSAE
Driverless 2028 roadmap approved
Pitched the multi-season autonomy roadmap to the team leads and got the green light. My first time owning a plan measured in years, not semesters.
2026Escape velocity
FSAE
Perception stack runs on the car
Cone detection running on the vehicle compute for the first time, off recorded camera data. The stack left the laptop and moved into the car.
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Detection overlay on the forward camera feed, cones boxed in real time.
Project
Built this site
Designed and shipped this portfolio to give the work a home. You are standing inside this event right now.
Milestone
Looking ahead: 2027 internships
Open to internships from January to August 2027. The next star on this map could be with your team.