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Last Updated: October 05, 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. Click the link to apply.
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)
- Getting my homeserver back up.
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
- 8-14 Oct - Being a tourist in
Lyon
- 14-19 Oct - Being a tourist in
Barcelona
- 15 Oct - Talking about endoflife.date on the
runZero podcast.
- 17 Oct - Visiting the Sagrada Familia,
Barcelona
- 19-26 Oct - In
Paris
for the International Institute of Obsolescence Management Conference
- 26 Oct-31 Dec - Will be in
Berlin
for a few months.
- 27-28 Oct - Write the Docs
Berlin
- 11 Nov - I will be around for Puzzled Pint in
Berlin
Past Events (2025)
- 7 Oct - Transiting in
Delhi
- 1-3 Oct -
Haldwani
, Uttarakhand for a wedding
- 20-21 Sep -
IndiaFOSS 2025. I co-hosted the
Open Data Devroom
on Day 2. Also gave a talk on Librefin (Day 1 afternon) -
an attempt at re-implementing UPI, and another talk in the policy devroom about
Supply Chain Security Policy. Livestreams are up already.
- 19 Sep - Organized Maintainer Summit at IndiaFOSS
- 9 Sep - Organized 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 - Organized 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 did the opening talk at the Supply Chain Security track 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 - Organized 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
. Just walked around the city.
- 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 - Organized Puzzled Pint Bangalore
- 11 Jan - Slacklining and HSR Reads at Hemavathi Park, HSR
Past Events (2024)
(All events in Bangalore, unless otherwise noted.)
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