Junior at Menlo School. I start companies, build apps and machines, and finish what I start. Right now I'm building a stealth startup.
Apps, hardware and machines I've built or am building now.
The family cookbook. Snap a photo of a stained, handwritten recipe card and Splatter turns it into a clean recipe your whole family can share, scale and cook from, with the original card kept alongside it.
getsplatter.com ↗Be anywhere. Snap the Elsewhere puck onto the back of your iPhone with MagSafe and your phone's location is yours to choose. Drop a pin to be there instantly, or pick a start and an end and glide along a real route at any speed. It all runs from a simple app on your phone, with no laptop or cables, on its own battery that charges over USB-C. Tap Stop and you're back on real GPS.
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Wave a hand to pause, skip or turn it up. A wooden boombox I designed and built by hand. A webcam reads hand gestures, and a 7-inch touchscreen shows lyrics synced to the song alongside the album art. Two 3-inch drivers each sit in their own sealed chamber on a 20 W per channel amp, so the bass stays punchy and clean at room-filling volume. It runs on a Raspberry Pi with Bluetooth and AirPlay 2, five screen themes and a rechargeable battery, all inside a laser-cut case with hand-fitted finger joints.
A full-size arcade basketball game built with a partner for our mechanical and electrical engineering final at Menlo. The hoop rides back and forth on rails so every shot is a moving target, with a net to catch misses and a ramp that rolls the ball back to you.
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Two laser-cut flywheels spin in opposite directions on a 120 RPM motor to create an optical illusion, backlit by LEDs behind a diffuser. I modeled every part in CAD, dado-cut the wood box, wired the electronics and built a magnetic back panel over nine build days.
Read the build report ↗Eight stops so far, from the Hillview robotics team to the company I'm building now.
Robotics team, JV tennis and the Buddy program. Robotics is where I first wrote C++ and got hooked on making things work.
At New Community Church in Menlo Park I run interactive learning stations and lead small groups for younger kids.
Started high school. Football, lacrosse, soccer and golf on the field. Python and C in the classroom.
A friend and I started Zellen Design, a company building websites for local businesses like landscapers and plumbers. We wrote our own algorithm and app to find businesses that needed a site and connect with them, then designed and built the sites ourselves. Along the way we learned cold calling, pricing, closing deals and working as a team. We wrapped it up in early 2026 to start on something new.
Summers at Menlo Circus Club in Atherton. Keeping the pool safe, handling emergencies, and running the day for a crew of campers.
Earned the Google AI Professional Certificate and AI for App Building, covering prompt engineering and agentic workflows. Eleven certifications so far.
Working on something new that I can't talk about yet.
Juggling school and sports while I build my startup, ship Splatter and keep learning how businesses actually grow.
Football, lacrosse, soccer and golf at Menlo. Tennis is where it started, back at Hillview.
The three things I keep coming back to, in school and outside it.
I use AI to build things I couldn't build alone yet. This summer I finished Google's AI Professional Certificate and AI for App Building, for eleven certifications so far.
Early access · Beta Instinct Invite-only AI agent · I'm in before launch Use my invite ↗How companies start, find customers and make money. Zellen Design taught me cold calling, pricing and closing deals. I want to understand the whole picture, not just the product.
Robotics in middle school, Python and C now, and CAD, wiring and woodwork in Menlo's engineering classes. I like knowing how things work, from a line of code to a jet engine.