Jascha is a native of Austin, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas with a mechanical engineering degree in 01999. He's been a Jaguar mechanic, an automation engineer for semiconductor fabrication, a Java website administrator, a hobby BattleBots builder, and finally, with a move to Los Angeles, a prototyping engineer, working on many different mechanical engineering and robotics projects. He was lead engineer on the 10,000 Year Clock Project.