Hobbies

The non-work side of the portfolio.

Outside engineering work, the same practical curiosity shows up in games, custom builds, movement, music and small automation experiments.

Hobbies and routines

Repeat

Gaming

A way to unwind, problem-solve and stay curious about systems, mechanics and design.

Craft

Custom keyboards

Hands-on assembly, tuning and personalisation that reward patience, precision and feel.

Movement

Kickboxing and cycling

Good for structure, conditioning and keeping a physical rhythm alongside technical work.

Sound

Guitar

A low-friction creative outlet that balances the more analytical parts of the week.

Automation

Smart home tinkering

Google Home, NFC stickers and SmartThings-style flows used as small everyday automation experiments.

Reading

Engineering reading

A rolling stack of texts that informs the day-job work: Anderson's Modern Compressible Flow, Incropera & DeWitt for heat transfer, Cengel & Boles for thermodynamics. Lighter reading: long-form science journalism, popular-physics, and the occasional manual for whatever tool I'm currently using.

Cooking

Cooking — process discipline by another name

Treating a recipe like a procedure: weigh, time, monitor, adjust, document. Kerala and Swedish staples in regular rotation, plus the occasional ambitious project (slow-fermented sourdough, hand-pulled noodles).

Outdoors

Outdoors in Sweden

Stockholm archipelago day trips, forest walks and the occasional ski day. The right kind of cognitive reset when the modelling spreadsheet gets too dense.

How these connect to the work

The pattern across hobbies — patience, calibration, iteration, documentation — is the same one that shows up in CFD setup, EnPI baselining and rig commissioning. Hobbies are not a separate track; they're the same operating system applied to different objects.