$ whoami
winterx64

$ uname -a
Product Engineer | Systems Builder | Embedded + Backend

$ cat /etc/profile

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Name        : Akhil B Xavier
Alias       : winter
Focus       : Building systems that survive reality
Role        : Product Engineer
Stack       : Backend • Infra • Embedded Systems
Location    : Linux terminal probably

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

$ ls ~/active_projects

DropaNote/
Metaloom/
PerceptionAutonomyLabs/
InternalTools/
EmbeddedExperiments/

$ tree DropaNote -L 2

DropaNote
├── api/
│   ├── auth/
│   ├── apps/
│   ├── feedbacks/
│   └── analytics/
├── services/
├── db/
├── widgets/
├── middleware/
└── infra/

$ cat engineering_principles.conf

- Build for production, not screenshots
- Readable systems > clever abstractions
- Auth is mandatory
- Deployability is a feature
- APIs should feel predictable
- Build tools you would actually use
- Ship fast, refactor faster

$ cat architecture.md

Current Interests:
- Modular monolith architecture
- API-first system design
- Typed backend systems
- RBAC + secure auth flows
- Event-driven workflows
- Embedded ↔ cloud communication
- Self-hosted infrastructure

$ ls /dev/boards

arduino/
esp32/
raspberrypi/
canbus/

$ cat hardware_focus.txt

- Raspberry Pi
  └─ Linux services, networking, self-hosting

- ESP32
  └─ Firmware, IoT systems, device communication

- Arduino
  └─ Rapid prototyping, sensors, automation

- CAN Bus
  └─ Reverse engineering, telemetry, diagnostics

$ cat tech_stack.yaml

backend:
  - FastAPI
  - Flask
  - Supabase
  - PostgreSQL
  - SQLModel
  - Alembic

frontend:
  - React
  - Astro
  - Tailwind CSS

infrastructure:
  - Docker
  - GitHub Actions
  - Linux
  - Nomad (learning)

embedded:
  - GPIO
  - UART
  - SPI
  - I2C
  - Device-to-API systems

design:
  - Minimal UI
  - Dark interfaces
  - Function-first systems

$ systemctl status workflow.service

● workflow.service - Continuous Building
   Loaded: true
   Active: active (running)

Tasks:
  • Designing backend systems
  • Building internal tools
  • Refactoring architecture
  • Testing embedded integrations
  • Shipping production features

$ watch -n 1 current_builds

- DropaNote
  → Feedback infrastructure platform

- Metaloom
  → Product engineering & creative tech studio

- CAN Analyzer Tooling
  → Session recording + telemetry analysis

- Raspberry Pi Systems
  → Self-hosted services & automation

$ journalctl -u engineering

[INFO] Building production-grade backend systems
[INFO] Designing scalable API architectures
[INFO] Exploring embedded + cloud integrations
[INFO] Learning infrastructure beyond deployment
[INFO] Shipping faster than yesterday

$ echo $PHILOSOPHY

"Build systems that survive contact with reality."

$ curl https://winterx64.github.io

HTTP/2 200 OK
portfolio_status: online

$ logout

Connection closed.