Testing Reality for Edge Cases

Currently, my work focuses on deploying and scaling advanced autonomous systems for real-world maritime operations. Mythos AI sits at the intersection of hardware, software, and applied autonomy by turning complex sensing, navigation, and control problems into systems that actually work outside the lab. Before Mythos, my career revolved around electronics and embedded systems, with a long-running obsession with how signals move, distort, and interact in the physical world.

That obsession spilled naturally into guitar pedal design. I’ve spent years designing, building, and modifying guitar pedals by working with analog circuits (and some DSP), power conditioning, noise mitigation, and signal shaping. Guitar pedals are a strange and wonderful sandbox: they tolerate an enormous amount of imperfection, and much of the industry is built on designs that are often technically sloppy yet musically effective. Mistakes are audible, but not always undesirable. It’s a world driven more by creativity, taste, and subjective preference than by technical perfection, where a mathematically “accurate” signal often sounds worse than one that’s been deliberately bent, shaped, and colored by the electronics. That mindset (tight feedback loops, respect for physics, and iterative experimentation) still shapes how I approach engineering today.

I’m originally from Oklahoma, where I grew up in a small town that encouraged self-reliance, curiosity, and figuring things out the hard way. I attended the University of Oklahoma, where I studied electrical engineering and realized my math skills were not as good as I thought they were. Oklahoma will always be home, even as my work has pulled me into ports, shipyards, and coastlines far from the plains. I've lived in Wisconsin, Florida, Connecticut, and Boston over the years.

Outside of work, I’m happiest moving through the world under my own power or exploring places that still feel a little wild. I spend a lot of time mountain biking, rock climbing, camping, and wandering through national parks whenever I can. I like long days, sore legs, and routes that demand attention.

I love working on rusty old trucks and my Xterra that I’ve slowly transformed into a very capable off-road and rock-crawling rig. It’s equal parts engineering project and escape pod, built to get me deeper into places where cell service disappears and mother nature beckons you to go just a little further.

At my core, I’m driven by curiosity and a love for learning that was imprinted on me by my family. Life is good and I'm appreciative of the highs and the lows that shaped who I am today.