Work across industries

I founded BenchSwap to help small research teams assemble laboratory space, equipment, storage, and scientific support without taking on a facility of their own. I built the service and software with AI coding agents, recruited an operations cofounder, placed our first customer with a host lab, and issued our first recurring placement-fee invoice.

Through my consulting practice, I take on client engineering projects and develop independent hardware technologies—including Piezolith, a power-delivery and cooling concept for AI processors, and an earlier industrial-mixing flow study.

I co-founded Mimulus and designed a managed DNA-storage service that archive owners could use without running a laboratory. I built the long-term cost and operating models, coordinated hardware partners, filed our first provisional patent application, and built the website, archive cost story, and working digital encoding demonstration with AI coding agents.

I ran the commercial and operating side of Racer around its F1-X DNA-assembly reagent. I set up in-house production, built our custom storefront, customer-discovery tools, and quality software with AI coding agents, created a recurring science-content series with a teammate, handled university sales, and negotiated six signed distribution and marketplace agreements.

I built Telesis Bio’s innovation team to deliver three beta DNA-synthesis instruments, scaled in-house DNA production to six million bases per quarter, and then led Eton’s laboratory-services business—working with the team to grow specialty oligo sales by 50% and guiding the business through its sale.

I co-founded DeepDiveBio to let researchers run independent temperature programs side by side in a single 96-well thermal cycler. I raised seed funding, built a 13-person team, designed the early mechanics, and led the company through live industry launches and external pilot placements.

I designed camera, motion, and thermal hardware plus a 48-probe measurement rig for the BioXp DNA-assembly instrument, coordinated safety certification and factory quality systems, and designed an automated RNA-production instrument and shared control module for the DBC workcell.

I bootstrapped a custom-engineering firm through paid client work—generating $200,000 in our first six months and growing the team from two to ten while designing high-speed laser electronics, cleanroom controls, and mechanical hardware.

I co-founded a manufacturing service that gave customers rapid quotes from uploaded 3D part files and matched CNC machining jobs with available shop capacity, developing the business model and directing the quoting and order portal.

I increased battery-research throughput by adapting a stored liquid-handling robot for automated chemical mixing, redesigning manual coin-cell assembly fixtures and workstations, and building a multi-channel temperature test system stable to within 0.03°C.

I turned manual 12-hour flame experiments into automated LabVIEW measurement rigs, designed a coflow jet-fuel burner and ultrasonic vaporizer, managed operations on a $500,000 Air Force grant, and contributed to five combustion publications and conference papers.