Kiran Jonnalagadda
Partner at Hasgeek
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolKiran Jonnalagadda is a seasoned social technologist and entrepreneur with 22 years of experience creating communities, products, and policy spaces that bring technologists together. As co-founder of Hasgeek and partner at Zaiki Ventures, he has led both editorial and technical strategy—shifting from CEO to CTO to focus on product and architecture while nurturing open community platforms like The Fifth Elephant and Rootconf. His background spans government-facing tech for rural services, research-grade data tools, and early web publishing, giving him rare fluency across systems administration, UI design, and tech policy. Kiran is also a trustee and community organizer engaged in education and internet freedom work, reflecting a long-term commitment to civic tech and capacity building. Known internally as a “cat herder,” he combines hands-on engineering with event curation and community development to help technologists discover and deploy their potential. Based in Bengaluru, he brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-sector experience, and a knack for turning tinkering into sustainable platforms.
22 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PUC Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science, PUC Physics Chemistry Mathematics Computer Science at Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain CollegeHigh School, High School at Sri Kumaran Children's Home
Hindi, Kannada, Telugu
Stackoverflow
2,698reputation
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22answers
13questions
sqlalchemy
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sqlite
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foreign-keys
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python
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Github Skills (200)
testing10
flask-application10
mosh10
linter10
jsx10
html10
postal10
json10
termux10
unit-testing10
pytest10
css10
user-management10
sqlalchemy10
oauth10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hasgeek/fifthelephant.in
Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years
hasgeek/baseframe
Dec 2011 - Feb 2023
Baseframe for Hasgeek projects
Contributions:40 reviews, 712 commits, 322 PRs in 11 years 3 months
flaskhasgeekpython
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