MANORATHA

Its been an interesting few years on the personal & professional front – here’s a brief catch up.

Over this span of time:

• I moved from Palo Alto to Berkeley (more books, music, art, theater, good food, non-tech people, nature & a grand view of San Francisco Bay).
• Created with a group of colleagues & friends, a global security standard for authentication of users & devices called FIDO (WebAuthN, UAF) to replace passwords, a non-profit standards body the FIDO Alliance, now chaired by Google, Microsoft & other leading lights.
• Bootstrapped a commercial company Nok Nok Labs that provides phishing resistant authentication based FIDO & additional IP to some of the largest brands worldwide with more than 150M+ users. 
• Joined the board of the Girl Scouts of Northern California to work on STEM education strategy following the work on the all-girls Robotics team The SpaceCookies (collaboration of NASA & Girl Scouts).
• Mentored a half dozen startups such as KRISP/2Hz (ML/AI for Noise Reduction), 4axyz 3D Manufacturing (3D additive manufacturing of Wood Objects) and others and ongoing mentoring through SkyDeck, the UC Berkeley accelerator.
• Developed a half-dozen automata (kinetic sculpture) & toys and met a whole community of tinkerers and automata enthusiasts from around the world.
• Hung out at a dozen live music festivals in Grass Valley, Killarney & Sebastopol among others, went to countless house concerts, and live performances at the Freight, Backroom, Ashkenaz, La Pena and other delightful venues.

…so yes, a busy few years.