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Last Updated: May 11th 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 recent 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.

Currently dealing with a family emergency, I will have limited availability through May.

Building

blr.today, building curated event calendars for Bangalore.
endoflife.date
Open Justice India` - a project to open up law datasets in India.
Helping organize Rootconf 2025 - Supply Chain Security track.

Hacking

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

12 May - Data Hackathon (RC NGW BLR)
13 May - Puzzled Pint (RC NGW BLR)
13 May - Impossible Day (RC NGW BLR)
14 May - Tabletop Hackday (RC NGW BLR)
15 May - IndieWeb Homebrew (RC NGW BLR)
16 May - Rootconf Birds of Feather Session at Underline Center
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’
27 Jun - VizChitra 2025 Data Visualization conference
19-21Sep - IndiaFOSS 2025. I am hosting an Open Data Devroom with a few opendata geeks.
Past Events (2025)
- 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. I was a last-minute speaker, and I talked about endoflife.date.
- 28 Mar - Rootconf proposal jam on Supply Chain Security
- 14 Feb - Went Ice skating at Canary Wharf
- 12 Feb - Avatar in Concert, Edinburgh
- 7-16 Mar - Travelled around UK/Europe
- 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.)