# David Antwi

> Software Engineer, Yale University, EECS, Class of 2028. Open to software engineering internships. I build AI systems and full-stack products that real people use, from a platform running in 30+ countries to the autonomy stack for Yale's Mars rover.

Current as of 2026-10-27. Everything here is generated from the data that renders the site. Contact: david.antwi@yale.edu.

## At a glance

- 16,000+ partners in 30+ countries on a platform I co-built
- 4,600+ delegates on a conference registration platform I built
- 2 startup software engineering internships
- 3 hackathon wins in 2026

## Currently

- Software Engineer, Tech Team (AI and Full-Stack), BENMP
- Autonomy Lead, Yale Mars Rover Team
- Undergraduate Researcher, O'Hern Lab, Yale Mechanical Engineering
- Research Assistant, Saxena Lab, Yale
- Project Director, Yale AI Association
- Lead Developer · Committee Chair, Yale Model African Union
- Chief Technology Officer, Yale Africa Innovation Symposium

## Experience

- Software Engineer, Tech Team (AI and Full-Stack), BENMP (Jul 2026 to Present)
- Software Engineering Intern, Beakr, Inc. (Stealth Startup) (May 2026 to Aug 2026)
- Software Engineering Intern, SynovAI (Oct 2025 to May 2026)
- Autonomy Lead, Yale Mars Rover Team (Sep 2026 to Present)
- Undergraduate Researcher, O'Hern Lab, Yale Mechanical Engineering (Sep 2026 to Present)
- Research Assistant, Saxena Lab, Yale (Oct 2026 to Present)
- Undergraduate Research Intern, The Faboratory, Yale (Aug 2025 to May 2026)

## Building now

- **Drone swarm:** Squads of four drones through obstacle worlds with re-planning, then reinforcement learning in JAX and the first real Crazyflies.
- **YAIS:** Getting YAIS V ready to launch: registration, Stripe checkout, QR passes and the staff check-in desk are in private testing.
- **YMAU:** Running the YMAU VI registration platform as 4,600+ delegates sign up: payments, financial aid review, and keeping the database fast under load.
- **Mars Rover:** The mission coordinator and simulation tooling for both University Rover Challenge 2027 autonomy missions.
- **BENMP:** Office tools for the partner platform as it grows past 117 hubs, starting with one admin view across every region.
- **muSim (Saxena Lab):** Generalizing the lab's reinforcement-learning controllers for musculoskeletal models to new bodies, and making the code modular and faster to train.

## Case studies

- [BENMP Partner Platform](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/benmp-partner-platform.md): The partner management platform an international organization runs on: admins at 117 hubs upload, clean, and manage partner records across 30+ countries.
- [Cloud Coding Agent](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/cloud-coding-agent.md): A cloud coding agent that never grades its own homework: a separate, read-only verifier tests the running app and shows evidence for every check.
- [YAIS Platform](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/yais-platform.md): The website and ticketing platform I built for the Yale Africa Innovation Symposium: verified registration, Stripe checkout, one QR pass per attendee, and a check-in desk for staff.
- [Better Office Hours](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/better-office-hours.md): A voice tutor that teaches on a live whiteboard and the student's own notes, and gives hints instead of answers.
- [Mars Rover Autonomy](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/mars-rover-autonomy.md): Autonomy software for Yale's Mars rover: a mission coordinator that drives Nav2 navigation, tested in Gazebo simulation.
- [Crazyflie Drone Swarm](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/drone-swarm.md): The simulation test bench for a Yale drone swarm: one or several Crazyflies fly through obstacle worlds while avoidance methods from published papers are measured against each other.
- [YMAU Registration and Review Desk](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/ymau-registration-desk.md): Conference site, Stripe registration, and a staff review desk for Yale Model African Union's sixth conference in Addis Ababa.
- [Intentionality](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/intentionality.md): A productivity app for students that turns coursework into quests, with streaks, focus sessions, friends, and an AI planner.
- [Ember Run](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/ember-run.md): A browser parkour game where chaining moves builds flow and raises your top speed. Six characters, three chapters, and every sound made in code.
- [TicketDodge](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/work/ticketdodge.md): A map that scores parking-ticket risk street by street from real NYC violation data, for how long you plan to park.

## Awards

- 1st Place, YaleAI x SpaceXAI Cursor Build Challenge (2026): Better Office Hours
- Best Use of Cursor, Ramp Builders Cup (2026): TicketDodge
- 2nd Place, Google x Yale SOM Build with AI Hackathon (2026): Ocura
- Best Innovation Lab, Yale Africa Innovation Symposium IV (2026): Tech & AI Lab

## More

- [Everything in one file: profile, every case study, and current work](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/llms-full.txt)
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- [Resume, PDF](https://davidantwi.vercel.app/Antwi_David_Resume.pdf)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Alienware2000) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-antwi-b17727205/) · [X](https://x.com/antwidavid389)