Experience
Sep. 2026 - Dec. 2026

SpaceX

Incoming GNC Software Engineer Intern

Redmond, WA, USA

I'll be joining SpaceX Starlink Constellation team this fall (2026), working on satellite imaging systems.

Jun. 2026 - Sep. 2026

General Atomics

Incoming Software Engineer Intern

San Diego, CA, USA

I'll be joining General Atomics this summer (2026) as part of the Electromagnetic Systems team, near the sunny beaches of La Jolla.

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.

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.

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.

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
Technical Profile

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 · 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