Hi there, I am an Embedded Software Development Engineer at Rockwell Automation. I graduated from University of Minnesota in May 2017 with Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Science. During my time at the University, I thoroughly enjoyed walking by the banks of the Mississippi river that wanders through the Twin Cities campus. I still live in Minneapolis, the city of 10,000 lakes, and am amazed by the lakes around this area and the recreation activities they offer.
At Rockwell, I work on Firmware development of next generation industrial packing solution called the 'iTRAK Intelligent Track Systems'. For my Master's thesis, I explored novice Cache Replacement Algorithms to improve performance of the state of the art cache replacement policies in use in today's memory design.
Personally, I am a huge fan of the DC Comics, occasionally edit Wikipedia articles, enjoy being outdoors, and surf the internet for dark matter (just kidding). I am often lost in space and time, and mull over my man Carl Sagan's quote when he looked at the photograph of the Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990. Before I sign off with his profound quote, if you are new to Wikipedia editing, please check out these links:
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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space