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Last Updated: April 26th 2025

Living with my partner (+Coco, her dog) and my cat (Wiki) in Bangalore.Outside of tech, I’m currently focusing on my running, skating and speedcubing. I got elected to the FOSS United Governing Board, and I’m putting some effort in talking to various communities in India and figuring out how can FOSS United best serve its vision.

Building

blr.today, building curated event calendars for Bangalore.
endoflife.date
Open Justice India` - a project to open up law datasets in India.

Hacking

UPI Lite, UPI Lite X for the librefin project.
Reversing the QR code on PAN/ePAN cards.
Understanding the ReactFlight hydration systems.

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

27th June - VizChitra 2025 Data Visualization conference
16-17 May - Rootconf 2025 Conference
27th April - Book launch / Famous Last Questions by Sanjana Ramachandran
26th April - FOSS United Bangalore Meetup
Past Events (2025)
- 25th April - Security Engineers Birds of Feather by Rootconf
- 24th April - Medianama’s AI in Fintech
- 8th April - Organizing Puzzled Pint Bangalore
- 5th April - PuneFOSS City conference. I was a last-minute speaker, and I talked about endoflife.date.
- 28th Mar - Rootconf proposal jam on Supply Chain Security
- Feb/Mar - Travelled around Europe
- Feb - Went Ice skating at Canary Wharf
- 12th February - Avatar in Concert, Edinburgh
- 2nd Feb - Organized a Tabletop Hackday with Karthik
- 11th January - Slacklining and HSR Reads at Hemavathi Park, HSR
- 14th January - Organizing Puzzled Pint Bangalore
Past Events (2024)
- 13th December - Attended Gyan Satyagraha in the internet age
- 6th December - Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati Tour
- 5th December - Learning Modular Synthesis with VCV Rack
- 23rd November - FOSS Meetup Bangalore
- 15th November - Rootconf Open House
- 16th November - Participated in Karnataka Cube Championship 2024
- 6th October - An Unequal Citizen. Rahul Bhatia discusses his book on Aadhaar
- 5th October - Spoke at the Mercari India Security Conclave. Talk Title: “Stop Chasing CVEs”. Slides are up at https://captnemo.in/talks/.
- 25th September - Future of Coding Bangalore Meetup
- 14th September - Internet Freedom Foundation’s Quiz Night, Underline Center, BLR.
- 7-8th September - India FOSS 20024. I gave a flash talk about https://blr.today.
- 26th August - organized a Watch Party for !!Con on 26th August
- 24th August - Failure Modes Meetup

(All events in Bangalore, unless otherwise noted.)