Summary

Platform

I work primarily on Linux (Debian and Ubuntu Desktop/Server), but I can also work reasonably well with Windows via WSL2 and MSVC, albeit reluctantly

MCU / GPU / FPGA

STM32 · NVIDIA Jetson Nano · NVIDIA RTX 4070 · Arduino Mini · Digilent Basys 3 Artix-7

Languages

C++ · C · Python · CUDA · ASM (x86 and RISC-V) · LaTeX · TypeScripts

Boost · Eigen · OpenMPI · PyTorch · CUDA Toolkit · NumPy and SciPy · OpenGL · Vulkan · SFML · OpenCV · ORB SLAM

GCC · Clang · NVCC · CMake · GNU Make · Vcpkg · Anaconda · Git · Docker · GDB · NVIDIA Nsight · ROS 2 · Perf · Valgrind · GTest · Qt

Engineering Software

LTspice · AMD Vivado · KiCAD · IDA · Gazebo

Technical Interests

Partial Differential Equations · High-performance Systems · Computer Vision · Digital Image Processing · Visual SLAM · Photogrammetry · GPUs · Autonomy

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

2025 - 2027

B.S., Computer Science and Engineering

GPA: N/A
Coursework
Campus Activities

Mt. San Antonio College

2023 - 2025

Mathematics

GPA: 3.96
Coursework
Campus Activities
Experience
Jun. 2026 - Sep. 2026

General Atomics & Affiliates

Software Engineer Intern (Incoming)

San Diego, CA, USA

I'll be working at the Electromagnetic Systems subdivision of General Atomics this summer (2026), near the sunny beaches of La Jolla

C++
Jan. 2025 - Present

BruinSpace at UCLA

Flight Software Engineer

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Building, write unit tests, and refining CircuitPython-based flight software and sensor driver interfaces for the RAPID-0 spacecraft.

CPythonMATLAB
Sep. 2024 - Aug. 2025

California Polytechnic State University

Undergraduate Researcher

Pomona, CA, USA

Developed UAV trajectory estimation and 3D reconstruction using ORB-SLAM3 and RTAB-Map. Integrated SLAM with YOLO for real-time navigation. Research under Dr. Bhandari and Prof. Ramirez.

C++PythonORB-SLAM3YOLOv11
Jun. 2024 - Sep. 2024

California Polytechnic State University

Research Intern

Pomona, CA, USA

High-performance UAV image processing using multi-core processing and GPU-acceleration with OpenCV in raw C++. Research under Dr. Korah and Prof. Ramirez. Paper published at AIAA Scitech 2025.

C++PythonOpenCVMPIOpenMPCUDA
Feb. 2024 - Jul. 2025

Mt. San Antonio College

Tutor & Teaching Assistant

Walnut, CA, USA

Tutored CS, engineering physics, and all levels of lower-division math. Also TA for Math 290 - Differential Equations.

ODEsLinear AlgebraCalculus
Selected Projects
Publication
  • Accelerated Image Stitching Via Parallel Computing for UAV Applications thumbnail

    [1]R. Ramirez, J. Korah, S. Bhandari, D. D. Le, Y. Chen, and T. Nguyen, “Accelerated Image Stitching Via Parallel Computing for UAV Applications,” in Proc. AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan. 2025.

Hackathons