About
I’m Sumit — a programmer, traveller, and photographer based in Tampa, Florida. I’ve been building things and writing about them on this little corner of the web since 1995, back when it lived on a university server and I was a student at USF. Three decades later I’m still doing more or less the same thing: taking stuff apart, figuring out how it works, and occasionally putting it back together.
If there’s a thread that ties the programming, the travelling, and the photography together, it’s plain curiosity. I like understanding how things work and making something with my hands (or my keyboard). This site is where I write it all down — mostly so I remember how I did something, and partly in case it helps the next person searching for the same answer at 2 a.m.
A few things I’ve built and written up
- A DIY Level 2 EV charger built from off-the-shelf parts for a fraction of a commercial unit.
- The philosophy behind my home automation — reliable, private, and pleasant to live with.
- A scalable, caching image server designed from scratch.
- Automating my swimming pool so the chemistry takes care of itself.
- A pile of telephony write-ups from my OpenSIPS and FreeSWITCH days.
It all started with an image-processing course at USF that turned into the ImagePro software still on this site today. The full story of the website — every redesign, plus the years I lost the domain entirely — is worth a read if you like that sort of thing.
Photography
I shoot with a DSLR, my phone, and a drone — mostly portraits with off-camera flash, travel, and the occasional abstract. Travelling is half the reason I pick up a camera; over the years that’s meant Slovenia, Hungary, Spain, Argentina, India, and plenty of closer-to-home Florida.
These days
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Say hello
I’m easy to find — my GitHub, Instagram, and other links are over in the sidebar. If something here was useful, or you just want to talk shop about EVs, home automation, VoIP, or where to point a camera, drop me a line.
This site is built with Jekyll — static, fast, no trackers, system fonts. It should still load in another thirty years.