Hello!

I’m an electronics design engineer based in Seattle, WA, whose work often ends up in unusual and remote places around Earth. I’m a Staff Hardware Design Engineer at Kapta Space designing electronics for space-based active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. I’ve worked in the space, aerospace, and oceanographic research industries designing, testing, and deploying robust electronics on orbit, in our skies, and below our oceans.

I love working on personal electronics projects (usually related to ham radio) and partaking in Summits-On-The-Air lugging radios and antennas up mountains. You can also find me climbing rocks around the Pacific Northwest or biking around Seattle.

Check out my projects page(s)!

Amateur Radio & Projects

I’ve been a licensed amateur radio (HAM) operator since 2004 – my FCC-assigned callsign is KB1LQD. Amateur Radio is a major reason I became an electronics engineer; it sparked an early fascination with moving electrons around that guided me to my career.

It’s a hobby I return to again and again – building my own radio equipment, chatting with other operators around the world (often via Morse Code), and hiking radios up mountains for Summits-On-The-Air (SOTA).

Professional Experience

My LinkedIn is kept up to date and provides more detail.

• Kapta Space (Staff Hardware Design Engineer – 2026 to present)
  • Hardware and system design for active electronically scanned array radars
• UW - Applied Physics Laboratory (Sr. Design Engineer – 2022 to 2026)
  • I designed electronic systems and circuits that enabled oceanographic scientists to perform their missions and collect the science data they need.
• Reliable Robotics (Hardware Design Engineer – 2018 to 2022)
  • I designed autonomous aircraft avionics retrofitted into Part 91 and Part 23 aircraft
• SpaceX (Hardware Design Engineer – 2013 to 2018)
  • Designed avionics for Falcon 9, Cargo/Crew Dragon, and Falcon Heavy for the Remote Input/Output team
  • Interned 2011-2012 and joined full time in 2013