Open to summer 2027 internships

Graham Lopez Electrical engineer in training.

I design things that use electricity, and write code to make magic happen. Third-year EE at Utah Valley University.

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Portrait of Graham Lopez
Salt Lake City, UT
$150krevenue generated as a sales rep (I know how to talk to people)
$12ksale price of the 1000-gallon smoker I built
~325stocks forecast every minute by my trading engine
2028BS Electrical Engineering, Utah Valley University

Selected work

Built, measured, documented.

Three projects that show the range: protoboard soldering, steel I cut and welded, math that made a hard cut exact, and a machine learning system trading live.

All five projects
The finished ESP32 controlled lamp
Embedded · Fabrication2026

ESP32 controlled lamp

An ESP32 streaming 28 lighting effects over Wi-Fi at 60 FPS, a half-inch steel base, a welded conduit neck.

  • ESP32
  • C++
  • UDP
  • Welding
  • 3D printing
The finished 1000-gallon offset smoker
Fabrication · Math[Year]

1000-gallon offset smoker

Built from propane tanks, with the firebox joint cut from a computed surface intersection. Built for $3,500, sold for $12,000.

  • Surface modeling
  • Torch cutting
  • Welding
  • Heat transfer
Trading engine architecture diagram
ML · C++ · Finance2026

Deep learning trading engine

A Transformer forecasting ~325 stocks every minute, a real-time C++ engine, and a Kalman-filter and QP portfolio layer, traded live.

  • PyTorch
  • C++20
  • ONNX
  • Optuna
  • Kalman filter

About

The engineer behind the work.

I'm a third-year electrical engineering student at Utah Valley University. I got into this by taking apart everything that I could at eight and never quite putting it back together, and I still learn best by building stuff, testing it, and finding out where I was wrong.

Most of my work sits at the boundary between hardware and firmware: choosing components, laying out the board, bringing it up on the bench, then writing the code that makes it do something.

Outside coursework I run a small home lab (a headless Ubuntu server hosts this site through a Cloudflare tunnel), and try to stay on top of my homework even when I have cool ideas for projects that I want to be working on.

Education

BS, Electrical Engineering
Utah Valley University · expected May 2028

Coursework

  • Analog & digital circuit design
  • Numerical Methods

Experience

  • Undergraduate researcher · UAV with Dr. Masood Amin, 2026–present

Hardware

  • Schematic capture
  • Multilayer PCB layout
  • KiCad
  • Oscilloscope / logic analyzer
  • LTspice

Firmware & digital

  • C / C++
  • STM32 HAL & bare-metal
  • Verilog / SystemVerilog
  • SPI · I²C · UART · CAN

Analysis & tools

  • Python (NumPy, SciPy)
  • MATLAB / Simulink
  • Git
  • Linux
  • SolidWorks
  • 3D printing

Documents

PDF · 1 page Resume Updated September 2026. github.com Source code Firmware, HDL, and analysis scripts for every project here.

Contact

Let's talk hardware.

I'm looking for a summer 2027 internship in RF, hardware, embedded systems, or power electronics. If you have a board that needs bringing up or a problem that needs measuring, I'd like to hear about it.

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