Rumored
A Plane?
The running family joke: that one day the workshop goes airborne. Filed under "not if, but when."
01 / The Person
Engineer by trade.
Engineer by trade.
Builder by obsession.
One head, two workshops. One made of silicon, one made of steel.
By day I'm an FPGA engineer at Motional, where I design the programmable logic behind Hyundai's self-driving cars. It's the low-level circuitry that turns raw sensor data into decisions in real time.
Before that I spent years at Cymer / ASML on the light sources that print the world's most advanced microchips. Precision measured in nanometers. I hold a Bachelor's and a Master's from Simon Fraser University.
But the moment I step out of the lab, the tools change and the obsession doesn't. I restore classic cars, resurrect motorcycles, and bring boats back from the dead. Right now I'm turning a 1977 Porsche 911 Targa fully electric, on a Tesla motor and battery. Old soul, new heart. The joke in the family is that a plane is next. Nobody's laughing that hard.
// Day job
SILICON
FPGA & digital logic design for autonomous vehicles. Verilog, timing closure, real-time systems.
// After hours
STEEL
Full teardown restorations, EV conversions, engine swaps, metal & mechanical fabrication.
// Constant
CURIOSITY
If it has moving parts or logic gates, it's fair game. Take it apart. Make it better. Put it back.
4Machine types restored
15Years building & breaking
∞Projects on the bench