Experience

Verily

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Hardware Engineer

  • Oct 2022 - Present

  South San Francisco, California, United States



Gator Bio

• United States
• Biotechnology
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

  Palo Alto, California, United States

• Senior Optical Engineer

  • Nov 2020 - Jan 2022

  Palo Alto, California, United States



ET Healthcare

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

  Palo Alto, California, United States -Built and led engineering program at US location, focusing on developing new point-of-care IVD products for the US emergency room market -Key contributor to R&D engineering team working on prototype point-of-care device to detect cardiac biomarkers -Designed and constructed electrical \& embedded systems to drive & control optical and electromechanical components within the instrument -Developed and assembled optical systems to excite and detect fluorescence probes -Planned and… Show more -Built and led engineering program at US location, focusing on developing new point-of-care IVD products for the US emergency room market -Key contributor to R&D engineering team working on prototype point-of-care device to detect cardiac biomarkers -Designed and constructed electrical \& embedded systems to drive & control optical and electromechanical components within the instrument -Developed and assembled optical systems to excite and detect fluorescence probes -Planned and spearheaded development path to reach regulatory submission of platform hardware -Researched and characterized the core fundamental technology methods to improve current product measurement sensitivity both chemically and optically -Tested and simulated optical phenomenon for BLI biosensors to better understand fundamental physics

• Senior Optical Engineer

  • Nov 2020 - Jan 2022

  Palo Alto, California, United States



Evanostics

• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Electro-Optical Hardware Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Nov 2020

  Los Gatos, CA - Developed a commercial product for IVD (infectious diseases & drugs of abuse) testing based on a sensing platform technology using evanescent fluorescence immunoassays - Key contributor to R&D engineering team working on prototype device used in clinical trials - Designed and constructed electrical, optical, and software systems towards the productization of medical diagnostic device. Significantly reduced cost of prototype by 85% - Developed and conducted experiments utilizing free… Show more - Developed a commercial product for IVD (infectious diseases & drugs of abuse) testing based on a sensing platform technology using evanescent fluorescence immunoassays - Key contributor to R&D engineering team working on prototype device used in clinical trials - Designed and constructed electrical, optical, and software systems towards the productization of medical diagnostic device. Significantly reduced cost of prototype by 85% - Developed and conducted experiments utilizing free space optical systems to study the properties of photonic bio-sensor. Curated and interfaced with various optics vendors - Managed a team of software engineers where we developed custom software tools using .NET technologies for automation and control of medical device hardware Show less



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Assistant

  • Sep 2010 - Dec 2016

  Stanford, CA -Designed and conducted experiments utilizing nonlinear optical systems to study quantum nano- photonic networks with coherent feedback control -Constructed complex laser and vacuum systems to study nonlinear atom-cavity interactions of cesium atoms within microscopic high finesse cavities -Implemented coherent self feedback scheme to passively control quantum nonlinear atom-cavity system -Utilized laser cooling and trapping of cesium atoms using a magneto-optical trap within… Show more -Designed and conducted experiments utilizing nonlinear optical systems to study quantum nano- photonic networks with coherent feedback control -Constructed complex laser and vacuum systems to study nonlinear atom-cavity interactions of cesium atoms within microscopic high finesse cavities -Implemented coherent self feedback scheme to passively control quantum nonlinear atom-cavity system -Utilized laser cooling and trapping of cesium atoms using a magneto-optical trap within a ultra high vacuum to deliver cloud of atoms to within the optical cavity -Employed interferometric heterodyne and homodyne techniques to measure weak optical signals -Developed models and simulations to describe quantum mechanical description of the interaction of a few atoms coupled to a cavity mode -Designed and constructed various low noise analog electronics for control and stabilization of lasers, cavities, and optical feedback paths Show less



University of Toronto

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • May 2009 - Jun 2009

  Toronto, Canada -Designed and constructed an experiment to look for energy gap for charged excitations (pho- toconductivity) in various semiconductors (GaAs, Si) and also high temperature superconduc- tors (La2CuO4, Sr2CuO2Cl2), utilizing the physical properties measurement system (PPMS) to control environment parameters (temperature, magnetic field) and a monochromator. Wrote LabVIEW software to control this system in one easy to use graphical user interface -Designed biasing circuitry and… Show more -Designed and constructed an experiment to look for energy gap for charged excitations (pho- toconductivity) in various semiconductors (GaAs, Si) and also high temperature superconduc- tors (La2CuO4, Sr2CuO2Cl2), utilizing the physical properties measurement system (PPMS) to control environment parameters (temperature, magnetic field) and a monochromator. Wrote LabVIEW software to control this system in one easy to use graphical user interface -Designed biasing circuitry and measured band gaps for GaAs and Si successfully using lock-in measurement technique -Prepared many samples for experiments by creating electrical contacts by sputtering and attaching platinum wires with indium or silver epoxy -Aided in the assembly of x-ray scattering machine by installing software and debugging and setting up circuitry Show less



D-Wave

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Hardware Engineer, Co-op Student

  • Sep 2008 - Dec 2008

  Vancouver, Canada Area -Collaborated with physicists and engineers to develop a low magnetic field environment within a dilution refrigerator for use in quantum computing -Directed numerous experiments to debug and characterize the operation of anisotropic magnetoresistive sensors in a low temperature, vacuum environment as well as other discrete electrical components. -Analyzed the experimental results to gain further understand of AMR sensor limitations at temperatures <10K (noise analysis… Show more -Collaborated with physicists and engineers to develop a low magnetic field environment within a dilution refrigerator for use in quantum computing -Directed numerous experiments to debug and characterize the operation of anisotropic magnetoresistive sensors in a low temperature, vacuum environment as well as other discrete electrical components. -Analyzed the experimental results to gain further understand of AMR sensor limitations at temperatures <10K (noise analysis, measurements techniques, etc..). Made necessary changes to control circuitry after analysis. -Programmed various experiments and control algorithms using Emacs Lisp. -Implemented the magnetic sensing system within the dilution refrigerator by installing the AMR sensors, the superconducting shields, and various wiring interconnecects. Aided in the preparation of the dilution refrigerator for cooldown and monitored the system from room temperature to base temperature. -Utilized various compensation coil designs and superconducting shields in conjunction with AMR sensors to attempt to minimize the magnetic field around the quantum processors. Show less