Writer first.
Engineer next.

I got into aerospace the way most people do: by looking up. What kept me there was the machinery underneath the spectacle — the controlled violence of a rocket engine, the quiet math that keeps a spacecraft pointed where it should be. At some point "interested in space" hardened into something more specific: propulsion.

Today I write for Proxima Report, covering the collision of artificial intelligence and spaceflight — neural networks running on orbit-bound hardware, autonomy creeping into propulsion systems, and what happens when software starts making calls that used to belong to flight controllers.

That beat produced the idea I keep returning to: the verification frontier. As AI expands into high-stakes aerospace systems, the essential human skill shifts from doing the work to verifying it. The machines will generate answers faster than we can. Knowing which answers to trust — and proving it — is where humans stay in the loop.

Before any of this, I founded MTK News in 2021, a volunteer STEM and technology publication I ran for three years. It grew to roughly 35 writers and hundreds of published articles before winding down in 2024. It also taught me more about editing, leadership, and keeping a team of volunteers moving in the same direction than any classroom could have.

Now I'm working toward an Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering degree at Purdue University, aimed squarely at propulsion — and in particular space nuclear propulsion, the technology I think most plausibly redraws the map of the solar system.