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Last Updated: September 14, 2025

Living with my partner (+Coco, her dog) and my cat (Wiki) in Bangalore.

Travelling through Spain/France in October, and staying in Berlin this winter.

Building

blr.today, building curated event calendars for Bangalore.
endoflife.date
Open Justice India - a project to open up law datasets in India.
52 1ab - Bootstrapping a community of reverse-engineering hackers in India.

Hacking

Started tracking my vulnerability disclosures

UPI Lite, UPI Lite X for the librefin project.
Reversing the QR code on PAN/ePAN cards.
Understanding the ReactFlight hydration system (mainly as used in Next)

Writing

About Supply Chain Security.
Talk Proposals for a few conferences.
Grant proposals for a few of my projects.

Reading

I switched from GoodReads to Rambling Readers last year. Currently reading

Catch me on

19 Sep - Organizing Maintainer Summit at IndiaFOSS
20-21 Sep - IndiaFOSS 2025. I am hosting an Open Data Devroom with a few opendata geeks. Also giving a talk on Librefin - an attempt at re-implementing UPI, and another talk in the policy devroom about Supply Chain Security.
1-3 Oct - Haldwani, Uttarakhand for a wedding
7 Oct - Transiting in Delhi
8-15 Oct - Travelling through Barcelona
18-24 Oct - In Paris for a conference
9 Nov-31 Dec - Will be in Berlin for a few months.
13-14 Dec - In Gurgaon for a wedding
Past Events (2025)
- 9 Sep - Organizing Puzzled Pint Bangalore
- 31 Aug - Onam Sadya (സദ്യ) Lunch at Salt Mango Tree
- 26-27 Aug - In Goa for a wedding
- 17 Aug - Samay Raina - Still Alive & Unfiltered
- 12 Aug - Organizing Puzzled Pint Bangalore
- 10 Aug - Punit Pania Live in Indiranagar (Big Pitcher)
- 9 Aug - FOSS United Bangalore Meetup.
- 7 Aug - Mauj, Masti and Quizzing - A Tech/Business/General Quiz. Teamed up with a friend, ended up winning by a margin!
- 26 Jul - LegalTech Networking Meetup
- 23 Jul - Saw the F1 Movie. Didn’t like it much
- 20 Jul - Fifth Elephant 5k run.
- 8 Jul - Organized Puzzled Pint Bangalore. 15th Anniversary Edition
- 3 Jul - Social Mixer with the CloudFlare CTO and team at South Park Commons.
- 28 Jun - Attended Berty’s Every Flavour Games as an audience member
- 27 Jun - VizChitra 2025 Data Visualization conference
- 26 Jun - FOSS United Bangalore Meetup.
- 26 May - Attended a Responsible AI Preview worshop at the Aapti Institute
- 24 May - FOSS United Bangalore Meetup.
- 23 May - Powerpoint Roulette by Improv Lore. I won the lucky draw to go on stage and try my luck, which was recorded (Starts around 1:08:12)
- 18 May - Attended a solo B612 Written Quiz
- 17 May - Rootconf 2025 Conference. I won’t be able to join for the workshops on 16th. I’m doing the opening talk at the Supply Chain Security track tentatively titled ‘Around the Supply Chain in 80 slides’
- 16 May - Rootconf Birds of Feather Session at Underline Center
- 15 May - IndieWeb Homebrew (RC NGW BLR)
- 14 May - Tabletop Hackday (RC NGW BLR)
- 13 May - Impossible Day (RC NGW BLR)
- 13 May - Puzzled Pint (RC NGW BLR)
- 12 May - Data Hackathon (RC NGW BLR)
- 27 Apr - Book launch / Famous Last Questions by Sanjana Ramachandran
- 26 Apr - FOSS United Bangalore Meetup
- 25 Apr - Security Engineers Birds of Feather by Rootconf
- 24 Apr - Medianama’s AI in Fintech
- 8 Apr - Organizing Puzzled Pint Bangalore
- 5 Apr - PuneFOSS City conference in Pune. I was a last-minute speaker, and I talked about endoflife.date.
- 28 Mar - Rootconf proposal jam on Supply Chain Security
- 9-12 Mar - Tourist stuff in Rome. Sent postcards from the Vatican City. Took my favorite selfie in the Pantheon.
- 4-8 Mar - Tourist stuff in Florence. Climbed the Duomo and the Bell Tower.
- 4-4 Mar - Did a one-day stop in Vienna.
- 1-3 Mar - Short stay in Berlin. Picked up my Playdate, met a few friends.
- 24-27 Feb - Met a few friends in Amsterdam
- 14 Feb - Went Ice skating at Canary Wharf
- 12 Feb - Avatar in Concert, Edinburgh. Spent a few days in Edinburgh around the concert.
- 7-3 Feb - Stayed in London, met friends and family
- 2 Feb - Organized a Tabletop Hackday with Karthik
- 14 Jan - Organizing Puzzled Pint Bangalore
- 11 Jan - Slacklining and HSR Reads at Hemavathi Park, HSR
Past Events (2024)
- 13 Dec - Attended Gyan Satyagraha in the internet age
- 6 Dec - Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati Tour
- 5 Dec - Learning Modular Synthesis with VCV Rack
- 23 Nov - FOSS Meetup Bangalore
- 16 Nov - Participated in Karnataka Cube Championship 2024
- 15 Nov - Rootconf Open House
- 6 Oct - An Unequal Citizen. Rahul Bhatia discusses his book on Aadhaar
- 5 Oct - Spoke at the Mercari India Security Conclave. Talk Title: “Stop Chasing CVEs”. Slides are up at https://captnemo.in/talks/.
- 25 Sep - Future of Coding Bangalore Meetup
- 14 Sep - Internet Freedom Foundation’s Quiz Night, Underline Center, BLR.
- 7-8 Sep - India FOSS 20024. I gave a flash talk about https://blr.today.
- 26 Aug - organized a Watch Party for !!Con on 26th August
- 24 Aug - Failure Modes Meetup

(All events in Bangalore, unless otherwise noted.)