Hi, I’m Victor—a systems thinker, builder, and engineer with a deeply personal drive to make technology that improves lives.

Years before I built my first robotic prototype, I was on the other side of innovation—watching my mother recover from brain surgery as an inpatient at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, ranked the #1 rehabilitation hospital in the U.S. for 34 consecutive years. There, I saw firsthand how cutting-edge rehabilitation technologies could restore function and hope. That experience stayed with me. After five years in construction and finance, I refocused my engineering skills and returned to graduate school—to become the kind of engineer who could help people like my mom.

I earned my MS in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Robotics and Control at Northwestern University, where I designed and built robotic devices for healthcare—including a robotic surgical endoscope controller developed in direct collaboration with a minimally invasive surgeon. That capstone experience solidified my love for building functional devices that solve human problems.

After grad school, I joined the Center for Bionic Medicine at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab—completing the arc I began years earlier. I contributed to AI-powered prosthetics, gamified mobile therapy systems, smart sensors, and BLE-connected wearable devices, working alongside brilliant scientists, engineers, clinicians, writers, and research participants to turn patient needs into functional technology.

Today, I work as an Android Engineer on a multi-app real estate platform used by millions. I’ve helped modernize legacy systems, led the development of novel features, and collaborated cross-functionally across Android, iOS, backend, QA, and product teams.

My journey—from complex construction engineering on a $75M hospital and a $35M church, delivered while working for Turner Construction, the #1-ranked construction manager in the U.S., where I helped bring essential community infrastructure to life—to embedded firmware, AI-powered prosthetics, smart sensors, gamified therapy systems, robotic platforms, and mobile apps—has taught me how to integrate complex systems, communicate across domains, and deliver mission-critical outcomes that help people rehabilitate, recover, and attain the best possible quality of life.

In my spare time, you’ll find me in my home “robotics lab” with my kids—building gadgets, debugging custom microcontroller firmware, or experimenting with autonomous navigation. Whether it’s a mobile app, a robotic prototype, an autonomous path planning stack in C++, or a construction project, I bring the same mindset: focus on the user, work through complexity, and build something that matters.