Manufacturing Engineering Manager — Kernel
From prototype to production.
I build brain-imaging hardware at Kernel, and ship software with AI agents after hours.
About
I take hardware from prototype to production. Most product problems turn out to be process problems — finding them is the part I'm good at.
I started in aerospace at Teledyne Reynolds, running NPI and failure analysis — and built the process that cut two flight assemblies from 40% scrap to 3%.
Now I manage manufacturing engineering at Kernel, scaling the Flow neuroimaging headset toward production. After hours I build and ship software with AI agents — it's how I keep learning.
Expertise
Research
Preprint · 2026 · First author
Whole-head TD-fNIRS mapping task-evoked cortical dynamics across the adult lifespan (N = 302) — finding a neurocognitive inflection point around age 55.
SPIE · Clinical & Translational Neurophotonics · 2025 · First author
The modular time-domain fNIRS platform behind Kernel's Flow2 — whole-head optical brain imaging in a wearable headset.
Imaging Neuroscience (MIT Press) · 2025 · First author
A wearable system that reconstructs 3-D maps of cortical activity from light, with the depth sensitivity time-domain fNIRS gives over continuous-wave.
Selected work
Active build · computer vision
Browser computer vision that coaches a research subject to seat the Kernel Flow headset correctly — live alignment, then a GO / NO-GO gate. Webcam frames never leave the browser.
Live on the App Store
Outfits from the wardrobe you already own, for the mornings you would rather not decide. Started as a learn-AI-coding project; now shipping to real users.
Live · small on purpose
A deliberately tiny todo app. Sometimes the constraint is just remembering things, so everything else got deleted.