Geek-at-Large
India
- Current
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- Researcher at Centre for Internet and Society
- Past
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- Program Manager, GoRural at Comat Technologies
- Planner at Barcamp Bangalore
- Project Manager, GoRural at Comat Technologies
- Consultant, Advisory Services at Comat Technologies
- Information Architect at Seacrow Labs (Sole Proprietorship)
- Technology Architect at Partecs Participatory Technologies
- Technology Consultant at Institute of Bioinformatics
- Wanderer at Synapse
- Research Trainee at Johns Hopkins University
- No title at Synapse
- Sr. Associate, Technology at Jasubhai Interactive
- Writer at Jasubhai Digital Media
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Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Summary
I work in rural information delivery, helping service providers and governments extend the reach of their services uniformly to rural areas across India. I used to be in the Internet space back when "Internet" was a category by itself, building rich web applications and publishing platforms for the media, bioinformatics and NGO sectors.
I started my career writing for a print publication that went on to become rather influential in its vertical. In the process I learnt much about media, advertising, design, reputation, influence, power law, and the sheer drive required to run up that curve, learnings which continue to influence my work today.
Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Specialties:
Systems administration, web design, user interfaces, open source, writing, blogging, project management, technology architecture, consultant liaison.
Kiran Jonnalagadda’s Experience
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Researcher
Centre for Internet and Society
(Think Tanks industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Writing software for statistical analysis of Wikipedia editing behaviour. Code is available at http://code.google.com/p/wiki-analysis.
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Program Manager, GoRural
Comat Technologies
(Information Services industry)
April 2008 — January 2009 (10 months)
Expanded role at Comat, continuing previous work. Now in charge of the company's overall technology strategy.
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Planner
Barcamp Bangalore
(Events Services industry)
March 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 7 months)
Planner of the Barcamp Bangalore events, starting with the first in April 2006. See http://barcampbangalore.org/ for more.
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Project Manager, GoRural
Comat Technologies
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year )
Project manager for Comat's GoRural initiative, responsible for all technology (development and client interaction) related to the rural telecentre initiatives (Nemmadi in Karnataka with 800 telecentres, CSCs in Haryana with 300, more coming up). Technology consultant to the state of Karnataka, India, for the Nemmadi project.
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Consultant, Advisory Services
Comat Technologies
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)
At Comat I've worked with prospective clients on solutions that use technology nearing the early majority stage, have created new IP, and now coordinate the technology team for the Government of Karnataka's Nemmadi project, operating 800 computer kiosks in rural areas across the state of Karnataka, India.
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Information Architect
Seacrow Labs (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)
August 2001 — January 2006 (4 years 6 months)
Information management consists of two primary components: storage and retrieval. I specialise in the latter. My organisation Seacrow Labs researches into innovative and effective information retrieval schemes, for human and machine consumption.
During this period I have also configured and maintained web, email and workgroup servers for a few companies, trained the programming teams at a few companies on web development using the Zope application server, and written on technology experiences for a few leading tech publications.
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Technology Architect
Partecs Participatory Technologies
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
December 2004 — October 2005 (11 months)
Started with Partecs as a consultant Zope architect, but ended up leading the development team. Longer description when I'm back from vacation.
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Technology Consultant
Institute of Bioinformatics
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)
July 2002 — June 2004 (2 years )
Designed the database, wrote most of the code, and hired most of the technology team for the Human Protein Reference Database, available at http://www.hprd.org/
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Wanderer
Synapse
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2003 — January 2004 (6 months)
On a Wanderer fellowship at Synapse, implementing an internal media repository project, and helping out with external projects. This second stint at Synapse is again a period of greatly accelerated learning, this time in sociology.
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Research Trainee
Johns Hopkins University
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
October 2002 — February 2003 (5 months)
At the Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, continuing work done at the Institute of Bioinformatics on building the Human Protein Reference Database.
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No title
Synapse
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)
Watershed period at Synapse, recovering from burnout and expanding my worldview to include new interests in marketing and information dissemination to micro and mass audiences.
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Sr. Associate, Technology
Jasubhai Interactive
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
September 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 2 months)
Content and technology person at Jasubhai Interactive, a subsidiary of Jasubhai Digital Media. Created and moderated lunateks.com, a user contributed technology discussion weblog. Co-designed and co-programmed the back-end for ZDNetIndia.com.
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Writer
Jasubhai Digital Media
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)
January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)
Technology writer for the Indian edition of Chip magazine. Also configured and maintained the organisation's mail server.
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