Alliance partners — mecanum drive, Limelight vision
Team IK19859 — California Invitational 2025
Vice-Captain and Control Systems Lead on Team IK19859. I write the autonomous code — Java, PID loops, sensor fusion — that makes the robot think for itself in a 30-second window.
That means debugging at 11 PM before a match when code that worked in practice won't initialise on the competition field. The real skill isn't writing — it's rewriting under pressure.
Before FTC, I competed in WRO and FLL in 5th and 6th grade — that's where the obsession with robotics started.
"The robot doesn't know you're nervous. The code either works or it doesn't."
I also run strategy and scouting — reading opponent alliances, calling configuration changes between matches. Engineering and strategy are inseparable at this level.
Beyond competition, I designed and built 19859.org — the team's official bilingual website — as part of the sponsorship and outreach side of the role. It covers the robot, season, software, and community across English and Chinese.
Everything in the technical stack below serves a single goal: autonomous reliability. The robot has 30 seconds. Zero human input. Everything below has to work in concert — or the robot's dead on the field.
The stack in Chapter 2 powers the robot. I also built the intelligence layer our team uses for alliance selection — a full-stack platform used in real competition.
scoutselect.org Full write-up & interactive demoDidn't make it past qualifiers our first season. This season we captained the Finalist Alliance at the World Championship Premier Event in Istanbul. Four seasons of getting better.
IK19859 · 2025 Competition Robot
Every control loop on this page runs on this machine. These are the CAD renders behind it — the same assemblies the autonomous routine is tuned against.
Istanbul, July 2026. Teams from every continent. Six years of work led here — and we captained the Finalist Alliance.
Finalist Alliance Captain, and 2nd place for the Innovate Award. Captaining an alliance means the other teams picked us to lead — that judgement came from the season behind it, not one weekend.
The same precision that makes a 98%-consistent autonomous routine works in water too. World #6. Six medals in one season.
Control Systems Lead and Team Champion — different arenas, same core skill: build the argument, test it under pressure, iterate.
Built because competition demanded it. OPR, Monte Carlo, Bayesian shrinkage — running on live FTC data at California Invitational.
