ABOUT

I'm a junior at the University of Michigan majoring in Electrical Engineering. My focus is on embedded systems and hardware design, with hands-on experience in avionics, PCBs, and hardware verification. I'm especially drawn to the intersection of hardware and quantum technology, exploring how quantum principles can drive the future. While my foundation lies in building hardware, I'm also passionate about software and firmware.

Relevant Coursework:

- Circuit Analysis
- Signals and Systems
- Intro to DSA
- Intro to Computer Architecture
- Principles of Optics
- Intro to Quantum Information Technology
- Differential Equations
- Electromagnetics

Quick Facts:

name:  David Sanico
class: 2027
major: Electrical Engineering
minor: Computer Science
experience: Electrical Engineering Intern @ Rocket Lab
            Avionics Hardware Lead @ MASA
            Data Science Intern @ Pair Tech

SKILLS

Primary Skills:

Altium
LTspice
Python
C++
MATLAB

Secondary Skills:

HTML
CSS
Tensorflow
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
Git
Jupyter
VS Code
Colab
Linear
Fusion 360
PlatformIO
Arduino
Espressif

PCB Design

Circuit Analysis

Programming

Integration and Testing

Soldering

Data Analysis

Bay Board PCBs

Project Lead @ MASA; 08/24 to 05/25

Designed a network of 3 PCBs to control valves from a flight autosequence and receive data from external thermocouples and pressure transducers and onboard IMUs and barometers.

Codename: Trident

Num. Components: 489

Layers: 6

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Flight Recorder PCB

Project Lead @ MASA; 03/24 to 01/25

Designed and fabricated my first PCB from start to finish. Includes onboard sensors, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, EEPROM, and an STM32 to record and protect flight data. Banana-shaped to wrap around the engine.

Codename: Keylime

Num. Components: 181

Layers: 6

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Machine Learning Stock Market Analysis

MDST; 01/24 to 05/24

Created an LSTM model designed to predict NVIDIA's stock price trend for the next day, with performance in RMSE and MAPE precision benchmarks over 10x greater than the team's base model.

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Electric Nerf Blaster Modification

Personal Project; 11/19 to 01/22

Converted a semi-automatic pistol into a fully-automatic rifle with increased power, dual-ammo compatibility, tracer-ammo UV charging, and an integrated voltmeter.

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TIMELINE

May 2025 - Aug. 2025

Electrical Engineering Intern @ Rocket Lab

As a member of the Space Systems Avionics Team, I carried out the design verification process of a satellite PCB including assembly, testing equiment, and SPICE analysis. I also designed three new PCBs for testing integration, led a professional PCB lifecycle, and wrote firmware to assist in bring-up.

Apr. 2025 - Present

Avionics Hardware Lead @ MASA

I'm currently managing the development of all hardware projects in MASA. I am overseeing project timelines and goals, conducting technical design reviews, maintaining documentation, assisting in integration, and providing technical guidance to the team.

Aug. 2024 - May 2025

Bay Board PCBs Project Lead @ MASA

I led a team of 4 to develop a 489-component PCB to control valves and receive sensor data in our rocket. I designed over 85% of schematics and layout, optimized multi-vendor BOMs, and coordinated with structures and plumbing subteams for cross-team collaboration.

Apr. 2025

ATD/KTP/TEK Hackathon

I created the beginnings of a Quantum Circuit Simulator (QuaCS) project (still in the works) at a hacakathon as a member of Tau Epsilon Kappa.

Mar. 2024 - Jan. 2025

Flight Recorder PCB Project Lead @ MASA

I was the designated Responsible Engineer for the flight recorder PCB for MASA. It was my first time designing and assembling a PCB!

May 2024 - Aug. 2024

Data Science Intern @ Pair Tech

I developed and tested three multi-stage Azure pipelines and five Python scripts to automate the scraping and ingestion of license data. I containerized scripts using Docker and Kubernetes for efficient deployment, and processed over 100 million datapoints from multiple state databases into Cosmos DB.

Hi, my name is David.