VP Engineering - Platform @ Nomni.ai | Open Source Architect | Standards Contributor

I build resilient, global-scale infrastructure - shaped by decades of work in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), digital rights, and enterprise transformation.

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• 🏗️ Global Commerce Infrastructure (B2B2C): Identity, loyalty, payments, and ledger — from principal to settlement.
• 🔄 Enterprise Transformation: Leading shifts from monolithic systems to agentic ones in FinTech, quick commerce, and hospitality.
• 🌐 Standards & Protocols: Contributor to Unicode / IDNA / ICANN LGR and advocate for protocol interoperability. Author of two individual Internet-Drafts at the IETF - decision-subject and operator-of-record - and co-author on DANE-DID.
• 🔐 Agentic Authorization: Building decern - a deterministic authorization kernel where people, AI agents and workloads are one principal type, with safety invariants machine-checked by an SMT solver and every decision written to a tamper-evident ledger anyone can verify offline. Apache-2.0, pure Rust. decern.anivar.net
• 👥 Engineering Leadership: Building teams that deliver with speed and governance. Mentored developers through Google Summer of Code and multiple open-source initiatives.

My career bridges public-interest technology and enterprise systems. This foundation drives an approach I call inclusive tech insight - designing systems that are resilient, open, and trustworthy.

• 🏛️ National Infrastructure Led Government of India (MeitY) funded R&D for Indian language computing, impacting millions of users.📄
• 📜 Standards & Governance: ICANN Fellow, Mozilla Representative, and Software Freedom Law Centre advisory board member - shaping internet standards and digital rights.
• 📄 Research: Two open-access preprints on corrigibility - conditions a system has to meet before anyone can correct it - for rule-following infrastructure (10.2139/ssrn.6059075) and for systems that learn (10.2139/ssrn.6669318). CC0.
• 🏅 Recognition Deccan Herald Changemaker 2024 for pioneering multilingual computing and digital inclusion in India.
• 🎤 Speaking: Invited speaker at MozFest, RightsCon, FOSSASIA, and international forums on open technology and governance.
• 🌱 Community Impact: Mentored in Language Technology FOSS Projects, Google Summer of Code and designed State Wide FOSS training programs in India.
• 💼 Enterprise Experience: Former SVP Engineering in regulated FinTech, leading modernization and digital transformation.

Currently contributing to Hermes · llamafile · Mozilla Rhino · AWS Amplify · Open Policy Agent · Mozilla AI · whois

I believe in technology that creates both commercial value and public good. Currently focused on the intersection of enterprise scale, commerce, and open standards.

💬 Open to advisory opportunities & strategic collaborations