Hardware that has to survive the test.

Cold flow testing is how you find out whether a propulsion system's plumbing behaves before there is anything combustible in it. That only works if you can see what happened, which makes the instrumentation as much of a design problem as the structure holding it.

I designed a vertical integration and cold flow test platform that captures pressure, thermal, and vibration data from twelve individual sensors, and wrote the Python pipeline that synchronizes and processes those multi-channel streams into dashboards the team can actually read. Raw multi-channel DAQ output is close to useless in a debrief; the value is in getting every channel onto a common clock and putting the anomaly in front of the person who needs to see it.

On the structural side, I used Ansys Mechanical to reduce bracket mass by 40% while keeping a factor of safety above 1.5. I am continuing as responsible engineer for payload systems on the 2026–27 vehicle, leading a team of four engineers.