Appaji Darbha
Actor Model at Indian Telugu Film Industry
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAppaji Darbha is a multidisciplinary creative professional from Samalkot, Andhra Pradesh, with over three decades of experience in advertising, print design and Unicode font development, and more than a decade as an actor and model in the Telugu film industry. He built a distinguished career designing cross-platform print solutions and Telugu/Kannada Unicode fonts used by publishers and government organizations, combining technical precision with visual storytelling. As Managing Director and creative lead at agencies across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka, he specialized in user experience design and e-learning while shepherding innovative printing technologies. Since 2015 he has transitioned into on-screen work, earning critical acclaim for award-winning short films like Krishnamurthy Garintlo while drawing on a lifelong theatrical family heritage. Notably, his dual fluency in traditional publishing craft and digital font engineering gives him a rare blend of artisanal typography expertise and contemporary media sensibility.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Telugu, Bachelor of Arts, Telugu at Andhra UniversityGovernment Junior College, SamalkotBA, Telugu, Economics, History, BA, Telugu, Economics, History at PR College, KakinadaBA, Telugu, Economics, History, BA, Telugu, Economics, History at M R College, Peddapuram
Github Skills (16)
woff10
opentype10
fonts10
truetype10
font-editor10
gnu10
google-fonts10
linux9
kannada8
windows8
chatbot7
unicode7
updating5
anthropic5
latin4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
appajid/peddana
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 month
latincopyrightlatin-charactersupdating
appajid/Chathura
Jul 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
headingsfontteluguinvitationsunicode
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