Ayan Pahwa
Founder at APxTools
Delhi, India
Summary
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SeniorAyan Pahwa is a founder and creator with 11 years of experience blending product design, content, and embedded systems engineering to build lifestyle tools and communities. He leads APxTools, designing high-quality, design-forward Everyday Carry (EDC) products for creators and explorers, while producing videos and a podcast that spotlight founders, makers, and intentional living. Based in Delhi, he pairs a maker’s engineering mindset—evident in contributions to CircuitPython’s filesystem behaviors for microcontroller code execution—with a strong sense of aesthetics and Indian cultural sensibility. As a content entrepreneur he publishes travel and urban survival guides, hosts The AP Experience Podcast, and experiments with FPV drones to inform practical product and storytelling insights. He’s known for turning hands-on technical work into tangible lifestyle products and narratives that encourage men to live intentionally, create fearlessly, and carry well.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
filesystem10
microcontroller10
python10
c119
c179
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/circuitpython
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 PRs, 33 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ayan primarily contributed to the `circuitpython` repository by modifying the `filesystem.c` file. Their contributions centered around the creation and management of the `code.py` file, a core component for CircuitPython programs. The user implemented functionality to create this file, added a newline character, and adjusted the creation based on build configurations and target boards, showing an understanding of the embedded environment.
pythonpython-implementationteachingmicrocontrollerpython3
iayanpahwa/IoT-Holiday-Lights
Dec 2016 - Jan 2020
Internet of Things Holiday Lights.
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
lightsinternet-of-thingsiotinternet
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