Chronology

Year by year.

A public log of roles, independent projects, standards, fellowships, and recognitions. Curated, not exhaustive — entries are added as they land. Backfill from older archives is in progress.

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Role Project Standard Fellowship Recognition Contribution

Chronology

2026

  • Project Corrigibility Framework for systems that can be corrected without being captured. Two papers (DPI, EPI) and a schema repository. Author 2026 –
  • Project OpenSLM Open Small Models Accord — ten principles for small open models that can be trusted at scale. Author 2026 –

2025

  • Project Layer 8 Daily newsletter on standards, identity, and AI infrastructure. Where intent meets execution. Author 2025 –
  • Recognition Jury, Just AI Awards — AI Forum of India 2025 –

2024

  • Role Global Head of Engineering — Foodhub 2024 –
  • Role Observer Member — MLCommons Open ML benchmarks and standards. 2024 –
  • Recognition Jury, Just AI Awards — AI Forum of India 2024 –

2022

  • Role Senior Vice President, Engineering — Kinara Capital 2022 – 2024

2021

  • Role Engineering Head — Kinara Capital 2021 – 2024

2017

  • Role Head of Products & Engineering — Paisool 2017 – 2020
  • Standard Indian Standard IS 16333 (Part 3) — Bureau of Indian Standards Information technology — Indian script code for information interchange — Enhanced Inscript layout. Co-author. 2017 –

2016

  • Fellowship ICANN Fellow & Contributor Fellow at ICANN57 (Hyderabad) and ICANN60 (Abu Dhabi). Continuing contributor on Universal Acceptance and the Neo-Brahmi Generation Panel. 2016 –
  • Role Advisory Board — Software Freedom Law Center, India (SFLC.in) 2016 –

2015

  • Role Mozilla Representative 2015 – 2018

2014

  • Contribution Member — Python Software Foundation 2014 –
  • Project Indic Project Concluded collective on Indian-language computing. Executive Director 2014 – 2018
  • Recognition Changemaker — Deccan Herald Recognised for work on Indian-language computing and digital rights. 2014 –

2007

  • Contribution Google Summer of Code Mentor — Google 2007 – 2016

2006

  • Project Moving Republic Civic-tech venture. Founder & Executive Director 2006 – 2012

2005

  • Role ICFOSS · SocialForge · FSFI · NCRC · SAATHII 2005 – 2015

2003

  • Project Swathanthra Malayalam Computing Indian-language free software collective. Coordinator & Secretary, 2007 – 2014; contributor since 2003 2003 –