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Hrishikesh Bhaskaran

Developer / Flâneur / Storyteller

Portrait of Hrishikesh Bhaskaran (stultus)

Hrishikesh Bhaskaran is a software engineer with over 14 years of experience in building products and engineering teams. He currently serves as the Vice President of Engineering at Entri, a Kochi-based ed-tech startup, where he leads the engineering organization. He has been part of Entri’s core team since its early days. He also has hands-on development experience in the telecom and medical software domains.

He is an active contributor to the free and open source software community, a screenwriter, and a speaker on technology, policy, privacy, and digital rights.

Free software & language computing

Hrishikesh has been part of the free and open source software community for over a decade. He currently contributes to the PeARS Project, a community effort to build a distributed search engine that respects user privacy. His interests in FOSS center on decentralized systems, language computing, and privacy.

He got his start through Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, a community that builds language computing tools for Malayalam: input methods, fonts, spell checkers, and more. These tools are widely used today. He was an active member and served as Secretary of the organization. Through SMC he worked with organizations like Mozilla, Wikimedia, KITE, and ICFOSS on free and open source software adoption and digital literacy in Kerala.

Screenwriting

He contributed the additional screenplay for the 2023 Malayalam film Neelavelicham, directed by Aashiq Abu. An adaptation of Vaikom Muhammad Basheer’s classic story.

Other things

He was one of the architects of the ICU movement, a socio-cultural expression platform of Kerala’s youth.

Hrishikesh is a regular speaker at colleges and has appeared in TV discussions on technology, public policy, net neutrality, privacy, free software, and career guidance.

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The handle “stultus” is Latin for stupid.