Benjamin Varghese
Manager, Research And Innovation Dept.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Varghese is a technology leader who has spent over 18 years bridging Bible translation and software innovation, currently managing Research and Innovation at NLCI. He designs and advocates for translation workflows, AI integrations, and tooling—drawing on deep hands-on experience developing Indic Unicode and Graphite fonts, encoding conversions, and Paratext and lexicography training. As a former HoD of Software, he has led cross-functional teams across development, tech support, and publishing to operationalize complex localization projects. He contributes to open-source keyboard tooling (Keyman) for Indic scripts, reflecting a practical focus on script rendering and mobile text input. Colocated in Bengaluru, he combines domain expertise in minority-language typesetting and dictionaries with a knack for turning niche orthographic challenges into scalable software solutions.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BCA, Computer Application, BCA, Computer Application at IGNOU
English, Malayalam, Hindi
Stackoverflow
655reputation
698kreached
4answers
0questions
passwords
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Github Skills (12)
keyboard-layout10
unicode9
passwords9
ubuntu6
git6
markdown6
git-merge6
jupyter-notebook6
ipython6
git-checkout6
mysql6
ubuntu-server6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
keymanapp/keyboards
Jul 2018 - Jun 2022
Open Source Keyman keyboards
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 307 commits, 9 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's commit checks in code for the `mozhi_malayalam` keyboard, indicating that the user is working on the core functionality and logic of the project. The commit focuses on the development and updates of the source files.
keyboardskeymanimekeyboard-eventskeyboard
beniza/mlym_mozhi_keyman
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Malayalm Mozhi Keyman Keyboard
Contributions:3 releases, 18 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 years
keymankeyboard
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