Orientation & self discovery
Programme introduction, mind-challenge games, a personality assessment and a professional LinkedIn profile.
Hi, I’m Viswes.
SystemsI Run
Computer Science Engineering student building software, embedded systems, AI workflows and self-hosted infrastructure.
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↓Scroll to begin01About
The full picture
The story behind the server, the semester, and the stubbornness.
Sønderborg, DenmarkJune 2026
I grew up in Dubai and finished school there under the ICSE curriculum, so I move between Coimbatore and the UAE fairly regularly. That background shaped how I like to work: understand the system end-to-end, whether that’s a self-hosted home server, an embedded project, or a trading algorithm.
I’m now a third-year CSE student at KCT, spending my fifth semester in ProtoSem — an industry-immersion programme that replaces traditional exams with real company projects delivered through Forge at KCT Tech Park.
Outside coursework I’m part of the Nigal Media Club, and I spend my time on sim racing, Formula 1, forex research, cooking, home automation, badminton and keeping my own hardware alive.
I’d rather build something end-to-end and learn from what breaks than stay purely theoretical.
The route here
- — 2023Dubai, UAE
School, ICSE
Grew up in Dubai and finished school there. Built a Flappy Bird clone in Scratch and a first-person obstacle course in Unity along the way.
- 2024Coimbatore, India
Joined KCT
Started Computer Science Engineering at Kumaraguru College of Technology.
- 2024 & 2025
Nova Team Challenge — won twice
Won in both first and second year. The second-year win was by roughly a 30% points margin.
- 2025
Selected into iQube
Admitted under heavy competition. Completed a mechanical design intake project covering product design, design thinking, machine drawing and 3D modelling in Shapr3D.
- June 2026Sønderborg & Aarhus, Denmark
Discover Denmark
Ten days across Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark studying the green transition — Robotics and Digital Twin, NAN, Drone Research, Circuit and Photonics labs, plus Uber’s Aarhus office. Extended it through Paris, then flew home solo via Istanbul.
- NowKCT Tech Park
ProtoSem @ Forge
Fifth semester as an Innovation Engineer — 20 weeks of industry projects at KCT Tech Park instead of lectures and exams.
02ProtoSem
A semester without exams
20 weeks as an Innovation Engineer at Forge, KCT Tech Park.
I’m spending my fifth semester as an Innovation Engineer in ProtoSem — a 20-week full-semester immersion run by Forge at KCT Tech Park. Instead of attending lectures and sitting examinations, I’m working full-time in an industry environment on innovation, product engineering and rapid prototyping.
ProtoSem exists to close the gap between engineering education and industry. Companies, startups and organisations bring real problems to Forge; those get broken down into projects or product modules and handed to student teams. Under industry mentors we research, design, prototype, test and iterate, following actual product development practice.
- Role
- Innovation Engineer
- Programme
- ProtoSem
- Host
- Forge · KCT Tech Park
- Length
- 20 weeks, Fifth semester
- Embedded systems & microcontrollers
- IoT sensors & edge computing
- Industrial automation & robotics
- Artificial intelligence & machine learning
- 3D printing & rapid prototyping
- Electronics design & assembly
- Product design & development
- Design thinking & startup fundamentals
The week-by-week log
Week 00 is orientation, then twenty programme weeks. Filled in as the semester runs — scroll sideways.
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Workplace ethics & personal portfolio
Implemented 5S across the workspace as a team, then started building this portfolio.
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Twenty weeks, then a product showcase.
Read the full log03Home Lab
The rack in my room
One salvaged office PC running nine services on my own network.
24TB
Raw storage
32GB
Memory
9
Services
2.5GbE
Uplink
What’s running
HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF- Proxmox VEHypervisor
Bare metal host. VMs and LXC containers on ZFS pools.
- ZFSStorage
Redundant pool across four 4TB drives, plus Media0 — a single 8TB disk for content that doesn’t need it.
- DockerContainers
Everything above the hypervisor runs containerised.
- PortainerOrchestration
Web UI over the Docker socket — stacks, logs, restarts.
- Pi-holeDNS filtering
Network-wide ad and tracker blocking at the DNS layer.
- AdGuard HomeDNS filtering
Running alongside Pi-hole — different lists, failover resolver.
- NextcloudPrivate cloud
File sync and storage I own, backed by the ZFS pool.
- NFSNetwork shares
Mounts for the LAN, wired into Nextcloud’s external storage.
- PlannedVaultwardenPassword manager
Self-hosted Bitwarden-compatible vault. Next on the list.
- CPU
- Intel i5-6500
- Memory
- 32GB DDR4
- Boot
- 128GB SSD
- Storage
- 4 × 4TB + 8TB
Four drives that didn’t fit in the case
How it’s wired
- Home network on EasyMesh — Archer C5 v4 as controller, C64 as satellite, over ACT Fiber.
- Server-side 2.5GbE upgrade in progress: Realtek RTL8125 on enp7s0 via USB-C, alongside the onboard Intel I219-LM. Testing the stock r8169 driver before swapping.
- Pi-hole and AdGuard Home both resolve for the whole network.
- NFS shares mounted across the LAN and wired into Nextcloud.
04Projects
Things I’ve taken apart
Trading bots, security labs, generative pipelines, CAD.
Quant / Trading2025 — ongoingResearch
MT5 Expert Advisor research
Taking a losing trading bot apart to find out why
Backtesting and forensics on an automated forex strategy — reading the trade history rather than trusting the equity curve.
- MQL5
- Python
- MetaTrader 5
- Tick data
What the data said
- No hard stop loss anywhere in the logic — losses were closed by margin pressure, not by design.
- Position sizing was Martingale-style: doubling into drawdown, which is what produced the smooth-looking curve right up until it didn’t.
- SELL trades lost consistently while BUY trades carried the account — a directional bias the aggregate P&L completely masked.
Infrastructure2024 — ongoingOngoing
Proxmox home lab
One salvaged office PC, nine services, my own network
An HP EliteDesk 800 G3 running Proxmox with ZFS pools, hosting DNS filtering, private cloud storage and a Docker stack.
- Proxmox VE
- ZFS
- Docker
- Portainer
- NFS
Security2025 — ongoingOngoing
Kali Linux security lab
An isolated VM for learning offensive tooling properly
Ethical hacking fundamentals in a sandboxed VMware environment — reconnaissance, network analysis and tooling, kept off the real network.
- Kali Linux
- VMware
- Networking
- Linux
AI / Generative2025Shipped
ComfyUI generative pipeline
A custom LoRA trained for a specific illustrated style
A node-based image generation workflow built around the Flux model with a custom-trained LoRA for a consistent Ghibli-inspired look.
- ComfyUI
- Flux
- LoRA training
- Python
Web2025Shipped
Krishi Mitra
An agriculture support tool
A farming-focused application built and published to GitHub.
- JavaScript
- Web
3D / CAD2025Shipped
Mechanical design at iQube
Product design and CAD as an intake project
Selected into iQube and completed a mechanical design intake covering product design, machine drawing and 3D modelling.
- Shapr3D
- Machine drawing
- Design thinking
Game Dev2020 — 2021Shipped
Unity & Scratch games
Where the whole thing started
A first-person obstacle course in Unity and a Flappy Bird clone in Scratch, both built in 10th grade.
- Unity
- C#
- Scratch
05Skills
What I actually reach for
No percentage bars — just the tools and where I’ve used them.
Languages
Infrastructure
Quant & Trading
AI & Generative
Security
Web
Design & 3D
Media
Hover or focus any of these to see where it was actually used. No proficiency percentages — they aren’t measurable, so they aren’t here.
06Certificates
Paper trail
Denmark, Coursera, Boot.dev, and a capture-the-flag.
Aarhus University & University of Southern DenmarkJune 2026
Discover Denmark — Engineering the Green Transition
A ten-day joint study visit for Indian undergraduate engineering students focused on green energy and sustainability.
View document
Boot.devJuly 2026
Build a BookBot in Python
Text parsing and analysis in Python, built from scratch.
CourseraMay 2025
Engineering for Tomorrow: Concepts, Creativity and Careers
Engineering practice, creative problem solving and career paths.
View documentCourseraApril 2025
Beginning Custom Projects with Raspberry Pi
Single-board computing, GPIO and custom hardware projects.
View documentCourseraApril 2025
Disruptive Technologies 2024–2025
Survey of emerging technologies and their industry impact.
View documentCourseraApril 2025
Foundations of 3D Modelling in Blender
Mesh modelling, materials and rendering fundamentals.
View document
Nova, KCTFebruary 2025
Intra Nova Cyber Workshop & CTF
Capture-the-flag competition and hands-on security workshop.
07Beyond
Beyond the code
Badminton, Formula 1, a camera, and a kitchen.
A2RL autonomous racing car, Abu Dhabi
Formula 1 & sim racing
Race weekends are non-negotiable. Sim racing is the closest I get to the real thing — and the only place where understanding tyre temperature is a transferable skill.
Sønderborg, Denmark
Travelling
Denmark, Paris and a solo layover in Istanbul in one trip. Growing up between Dubai and Coimbatore made airports feel ordinary.
Published on Pexels
Photography & video
Nigal Media Club — editing, cinematography and scriptwriting. Premiere Pro and CapCut, with a lot of time spent on colour grading and sound design.
B
Coimbatore
Badminton
The sport I actually play rather than just watch. Good for the parts of the day that aren’t spent in front of a terminal.
C
Ongoing experiment
Cooking
Teflon-free pans, app-controlled appliances where they earn it. Same instinct as everything else — I want to know what’s actually happening in the pan.
F
First anime: Suzume
Films & anime
Suzume was my first anime and it completely landed. The media club habit means I now notice the grade and the sound mix whether I want to or not.
I shoot and publish photography too.
Pexels portfolio08 — Contact
Let’s build something
Open to internships, collaborations, and anything involving infrastructure I’m not supposed to be allowed near.
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