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Last Updated: Jul 1st 2025

Living with my partner (+Coco, her dog) and my cat (Wiki) in Bangalore. Currently dealing with a family emergency, I will have limited availability through June.

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

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

26-27Aug - Visiting Chennai
19 Sep - [Planning] a Maintainer Summit at IndiaFOSS
20-21Sep - IndiaFOSS 2025. I am hosting an Open Data Devroom with a few opendata geeks.
Past Events (2025)
- 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. 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.)