Résumé

Kellan Williams (he/they)

Electrical & Computer Engineering student building autonomous robots — ROS2, embedded AI, CAD & fabrication.

• Seattle, WA · London, UK
• kellan@edgy.org
• in/kellan-williams-874a95267

Education

• Northeastern University

  B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering

  2025 — expected May 2029 · GPA 3.8

  First year completed abroad at NU London through the London Scholars Program.

• Lakeside School

  High School Diploma

  2021 — 2025 · GPA 3.92

  Seattle, WA

ACT 36 / 36 · AP Computer Science A 5 · AP Calculus BC 5

Selected coursework:Data Structures · Software Engineering II · Advanced Projects in CS & Engineering · Honors Multivariable Calculus · Calculus III · Differential Equations & Linear Algebra · Advanced Calculus-Based Physics · Modern Physics & Electronics

Experience & projects

• FPV Camera Drone2024 — 2026

  Designer, Builder & Pilot · Personal engineering project

  A custom FPV quadcopter designed, built, and flown to film ultimate frisbee — three full iterations from hand sketches through Onshape CAD, 3D-printed frames, and hand-soldered electronics to controlled flight with 30-minute endurance.

• Husky Robotics SocietySep 2025 — May 2026

  Co-Founder & Treasurer · Northeastern University London · London, UK

  Co-founded and funded the robotics society at NU London, growing it from under five people to 40+ members across eight subteams in a single academic year.

• Electrical Engineering InternJun 2025 — Aug 2025

  Electrical Engineering Intern · Janicki Industries · Sedro-Woolley, WA

  Built, wired, and QC-tested 50+ subsystems for a composite test system in Janicki's automation shop, to industrial build-quality and wire-management standards.

• Lakeside Robotics Club2021 — 2025

  Co-Leader · Lakeside School · Seattle, WA

  Grew the club's funding from $200 to $10,000, secured a permanent build space, recruited the school's first gender-balanced team, and took it to back-to-back state championships. VEX team 10955M won the VRC World Championship Energy Award.

• Leibniz Manuscript Research2024

  Lead Researcher · Mentored by Dr. Harry Lewis (Harvard) & Dr. Lloyd Strickland (Manchester Metropolitan) · Remote

  Transcribed and translated previously unseen 17th-century Latin manuscripts by Leibniz on calculus and binary, and authored a universal transcription key for future scholars and AI systems.

• Board Ready2023

  CS Intern Team Lead · Board Ready · Seattle, WA

  Led two interns analyzing 500+ SEC DEF 14A filings with BERT classifiers and LLaMA-2 70B to surface board-diversity data across the S&P 500.

• Fred Hutch Cancer Center2023

  Data Visualization Intern · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Seattle, WA

  Restructured hundreds of millions of genomic data points from .loom into a parquet-style columnar format so the data-visualization lead could work with them interactively.

• 3 Kids & A Camera2020

  Co-founder & Developer · Seattle Acton Children's Business Fair · Seattle, WA

  Co-founded a photography print business, coded its website and online payment system, and took "Best Business" at the Seattle Acton Children's Business Fair with $2,000+ in profit — the most profitable business at the fair.

Skills

Honors & awards

• National Merit Scholar — FinalistNational Merit Scholarship Corporation · 2025
• VRC World Championship — Energy AwardVEX Robotics · Apr 2023
• Ultimate Frisbee — Most Valuable PlayerLakeside School · Nov 2022
• iDTech Level 10 AwardiDTech · Sep 2022
• Finalist — Washington State High School Photography ContestWashington State High School Photography Contest · Sep 2021
• Best BusinessSeattle Acton Children's Business Fair · Aug 2020
• First Place — Young Finance Scholars Fund Manager CompetitionNew York Institute of Finance · Aug 2020