About
I build hardware. I founded Tully Tech, which makes affordable assistive and privacy devices, and I finish Avenues: The World School’s Mastery Learning Program with the class of 2026.
I work parametrically: master sketches where one variable updates the whole design, prototypes in wood before anything is cut in metal, iteration counted in versions and measured rather than described, and a cost ceiling treated as a design constraint from the first sketch. I would rather state a limitation up front than have someone find it, so the pages here say where each thing is weak.
Next: USC’s Iovine and Young Academy, Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, in fall 2026, alongside TroyLabs BUILD’s PM division and robotics with USC Advanced Robotic Combat (ARC). The work I admire is restrained — an object that explains itself and stops there — and that is what I aim at.
Timeline
- 2021–2022
- Take the World Forward fellowship: Harvard College, MIT Solv[ED], Learn with Leaders.
- 2022–2024
- FIRST Tech Challenge, Ulterior Motive #17253, 9th and 10th grade: fabrication lead on Scorpion, then operations lead and captain.
- 2023
- NYU Tandon, Cyber Security for Computer Science: wrote and presented a cybersecurity paper, and won the program hackathon.
- 7 June 2023
- AntiCam pin prototype tested against a live Ring doorbell camera at night.
- Summer 2024
- Research assistant, Stevens Institute of Technology: the low-cost prosthetic arm.
- Summer 2024
- Octura (a Bank of America partner, NYC), selective internship: financial models, market data, investor calls.
- 2024–2025
- FIRST Tech Challenge, #14712, 11th grade: electrical lead on Honu, 1st in NYC and the 2nd-place Think Award at the World Championship.
- 11 February to 6 May 2025
- AntiCam Mastery project: a working baseball-cap AntiCam and its circuit diagram.
- Summer 2025
- New York University, AB Calculus.
- 2025–2026
- FIRST Tech Challenge, Tritonics #17253, senior year: captain and operations lead; the FTC DECODE season.
- Summer 2026
- Research intern on CeraPiper, Cornell Tech x Technion.
- 2026
- Graduate Avenues: The World School, Mastery Learning Program.
- Fall 2026
- USC Iovine and Young Academy; TroyLabs BUILD, PM division; robotics with USC Advanced Robotic Combat (ARC).
- Fall 2026
- Product Manager at Pando Surgical, a medtech startup working on surgical ergonomics; joined through TroyLabs BUILD’s PM division.
- Fall 2026
- Side projects at Terra Labs: Bloom, as PM and systems, and the robotic-arm flower, on electrical and firmware.
- December 2026
- Presenting CeraPiper at ACM SCF 2026 in Tokyo: the CAD layer paper, a published research paper where I’m second author, and a live demo.
Awards
- Think Award, 2nd place, FTC World ChampionshipHonu, #14712 · Electrical lead
- 1st place in NYC, advancing to the World ChampionshipHonu, #14712 · Electrical lead
- 2x NYC Champion, Inspire AwardLed electrical design, documentation and mentoring · teams and years not named on the résumé; may include the Honu title above
- Inspire Award, 1st; Inspire Award, 2nd, four times; Connect Award; Innovate AwardHonu, #14712 · Electrical lead
- Inspire Award, 1st; Inspire Award, 2nd; Innovate Award, 1stMonti, #17253 · Captain · season still ongoing when recorded
- Design Award; Innovate Award, 2nd; Inspire Award, 2nd; Design Award, 3rdScorpion, #17253 · Fabrication lead
- Inspire Award, 1st (Qualifier 3), 2nd (Qualifier 1) and 3rd (Qualifier 9); Sustain Award (Super Qualifier 2)Tritonics #17253 · Captain · FTC DECODE season
- Hackathon win, NYU Tandon Cyber Security for Computer Science2023
Tools
- CAD: SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Blender.
- Code: Python, Arduino and HTML (proficient); Java, C++ and C (intermediate); eight commercial websites coded.
- Shop and electronics: 3D printers, laser cutters, shop tools; Raspberry Pi and Arduino sensors; wood, PLA, resin, acrylic, aluminum and composite plastics.
Teaching and outreach
- IDEA Club, which I co-founded and lead, has trained 70+ students in 3D CAD and printing, design thinking, rapid prototyping, fabrication and shop safety.
- Weekly robotics sessions for younger students at Hudson Guild.
- 20+ Hour of Code workshops, with a curriculum I wrote for lower-grade students.
- An in-school e-waste drive that collected 40+ pounds; a city-wide expansion is planned, not done.
- On the robotics team, rookie training is stage-based and one to one, and every rookie finishes a working subsystem and plans an outreach event.
- I led the team that launched our FTC micro-funding site after a mid-season budget cut; the site itself is credited on our roster to a teammate.
Smaller pieces
- Electric Road
- An individual Mastery project: a scaled model of a solar road that charges an electric vehicle wirelessly while it moves. I built a scaled testing model to demonstrate the idea.
The scaled test model: hand-wound coils, receiver board, breadboard.
The concept: solar pillars feeding coils set into the road.
- IDEA Club
- Co-founder and lead. The program has trained 70+ students in 3D CAD and printing, design thinking, rapid prototyping, fabrication and shop safety.
- Outreach
- Weekly robotics sessions for younger students at Hudson Guild; 20+ Hour of Code workshops and a curriculum for lower-grade students; a school e-waste drive that collected 40+ pounds, with a city-wide expansion planned. I led the team that launched our FTC micro-funding site.
Contact
Email: alexptully@gmail.com.Tully Tech: tullytech.com.