I'm an embedded systems engineer, student at Oregon State University, and musician. I like building low-level systems, embedded hardware, and I love open-source in general.
I currently work as an embedded and full-stack software engineer for OSU's college of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. Both my work and personal projects often include:
- IoT & Hardware devices
- Aerospace hardware & firmware
- Backend & fullstack applications
- Developer infrastructure & internal tooling
- Embedded
- C
- KiCad
- CMake/Make
- Firmware development (Bare-metal, RTOS, embedded Linux)
- Protocols: Wi-Fi HaLow, LoRa, MQTT, CAN, I2C, SPI, UART
- Backend & Infrastructure
- Golang
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Workspace & Workflow
- Arch Linux
- Niri
- Neovim
- Tmux
- OSUSat - OSU's climate science CubeSat
- Notebook IoT - Ecosystem of wireless-enabled sidecar boards that enable embedded devices to upload data to a cloud over I2C
- locomotive - Railway observability tool for streaming logs to other platforms
- scavenger - A self-hostable platform for creating web-scraping workflows
- RFID Inventory Tracker - An embedded device for automatically tracking warehouse inventory using RFID tags over MQTT
- FleetOS - An open-source telmatics device & platform for realtime fleet tracking
- switchyard - Pluggable Railway infrastructure management toolset. Railway hackathon winner
- Compute Deck - Handheld linux cyberdeck built on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2w and Blackberry Keyboard
- Embedded Systems Engineer - Currently working at research laboratory doing embedded systems at Oregon State University.
- CubeSat Engineer - Served as team lead for electrical and firmware systems for the 2026 IREC CubeSat mission and ongoing OSUSat project.
- Portfolio: https://frrt.space
- Technical Blog: https://techrocks.frrt.space/