About me
I'm an electrical engineering student at the University of Calgary with minors in Aerospace and Business. I lead flight simulation for SOAR, our student rocketry team, which is building a 10,000 ft rocket for IREC.
This summer I was a PLC automation intern at Lactalis, documenting a dairy plant's drives and getting a crate strapper back in service. Outside of that I run language models on my own hardware, build PCs, 3D print, and co-founded E.Q.O.L.
SOAR · Student Organization for Aerospace Research · Oct 2024 to present
I run the simulation team inside a 120+ member rocketry club, building a 10,000 ft rocket for the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition. I assign modelling projects, review results, and train new members on our in-house 6-DOF flight software.
On a commercial solid-motor flight, we predicted 5,035 ft, and the rocket reached 5,050 ft. That came from more than 10,000 Monte Carlo runs across wind, mass and motor variation, so the prediction carried a real error bar.
Airbrakes: deployment tables for overshoot, undershoot and nominal cases in MATLAB and Python, feeding avionics actuator control and validating a corrective 10,000 ft apogee.
THYME: Theoretical Hybrid Motor Estimator. Consolidates five years of SOAR motor models into one engine for self-pressurized N2O hybrids.
Tools: MAPLEAF, MATLAB, Python, SolidWorks FEA, ANSYS Fluent
Lactalis Canada · Calgary · May to Aug 2026
One of two crate strappers, moved from PowerFlex 4 to PowerFlex 523. I designed the full parameter set and wiring for the new drive. The first commissioning test failed. Tracing the panel turned up non-standard wiring to a secondary brake module and a brake resistor the original schematic never showed. Integrating both returned the machine to service.
Most of the summer was making a fluid-milk plant's drives and controllers documentable. I extracted parameters drive by drive, checked them against the manuals, and turned them into programming guides maintenance can follow at the panel. Some of those guides went on to other Lactalis plants for troubleshooting.
I also built a setpoint-change feature in Ignition SCADA with SQL scripting. It logs the user, the old and new values, and a timestamp for every change, giving maintenance an audit trail.
Allen-Bradley PowerFlex 4/40/70/52x/75x · Schneider ATV930 · Modicon PLC I/O · Anderson-Negele 801 · Ignition SCADA
Independent · Local LLM inference · Oct 2025 to present
I benchmark small open models running locally on an AMD Ryzen AI Max system with 64 GB of unified memory, using Ollama and a PowerShell harness. Every run uses a fixed prompt, temperature 0 and a 256-token limit, and model-load time is measured separately from generation so the numbers compare cleanly.
Trimming the context window from 262,144 to 2,048 tokens on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano shrank the loaded model and moved more of it onto the GPU. Same hardware, faster output.
Elsewhere: an ESP32-based assistant inspired by TARS, backed by Qwen and Kimi models.
Aneesh International Computers · and earlier work
Custom desktops and tech support under my own small business, plus the prototypes that got me into engineering in the first place: a servo-driven prosthetic hand, a replacement key shell, competition robotics and plenty of 3D printing.
The Idea
The production
The Assembly
Final Product
Robotics Team
Mercedes Car Key Backplate
Prosthetic Hand
