$ whoami

handle: xls — a ghost in this machine since the dial-up days.
no photo. no résumé PDF. if you want the story, you race for it.
(the fragments you collect up there ↑ unlock below ↓)

$ cat /etc/origin

compiled in Stockholm from Greek source code on a Swedish toolchain.
first words in BASIC. first love: assembly. grew up counting cycles,
not sheep — CRT glow, cracktros, size limits, scene spirit.
三 languages spoken by the wetware, considerably more by the fingers.

$ tail -f career.log --anonymized

two-plus decades shipping engines and platforms for the games & gaming industry — the kind of code that runs where money blinks.
several granted patents on game tech along the way.
the map pins moved: Stockholm → Toronto → Austin → Los Angeles → Sydney. five cities. one .vimrc.

$ ls ~/obsessions

renderers/ (GL · Vulkan · Metal · software raytracers) particles/ (if it glows and moves, yes) synths/ (a TB-303 rebuilt in C++ — acid compiles) ring0/ (bootloaders, chainloaders, an OS that plays tetris) hardware/ (USB sniffers, ESP32, AI RC racers, solder smoke) ai/ (MCP servers, vision models, teaching machines to see film)

$ cat now.txt

Sydney. building AI-native tooling by day, writing C++ for fun by night —
because some people do crosswords and some people write Vulkan renderers.
this page has no pictures, no paywalls, no frameworks — just photons
(and one analytics ping, so I know the grid is being raced).

$ ./decrypt fragments/

$ contact --route

github: /xls  ·  the grid knows how to find me.