Embedded engineer, chronic tinkerer, and the guy who automates his house then spends twice as long debugging the automation.
Spoiler: I also exist outside of debugger sessions. Sometimes.
Hello there! I'm Akshay — an embedded engineer in the automotive industry by profession, and a tinkerer of everything else by passion. I write firmware that makes cars smarter by day, and hack together smart home automations by night. My house runs on Home Assistant, my Ender 3 Pro runs when it feels like it, and my morning coffee... okay, I still make that manually. For now.
I like to describe myself as a "Jack of all trades, master of few" — I don't know JavaScript, Java, or web hosting inside out, but when I need it for a cool project, I'll get Claude or GPT to explain it at 2 AM, learn just enough to be dangerous, and ship it. That's the engineer way.
When I'm not soldering or coding, you'll find me 3D printing things nobody asked for, painting & sketching, doing random DIY projects, or out in nature with my camera — which, since marriage, has mostly transitioned from "nature photography" to "wife photography." No complaints though.
*Results may vary. In embedded, we call them "unexpected hardware behaviour."
Professional weapons + whatever I Googled at 2 AM for a side project
A brief history of turning caffeine into embedded software
"Any sufficiently advanced home automation is indistinguishable from a haunted house."
— Akshay's wife, definitely, at 3 AM when the Ender 3 started a print
Psst... try the Konami code ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA
From smart homes to love letters — powered by curiosity and Claude at 2 AM
Or just say hi. I don't bite. My microcontrollers might though (ESD is no joke).