Team

Shiju is the principal archivist and director at the foundation. The foundation was born out of Shiju's decade long hobby digitization work, which culminated in the Granthappura (Kerala Digital Archive) collection.

A supporter of Shiju's work from the early days, Jisso is a director at the foundation and oversees operations and finances. A history lover and Bangalore based techno-entrepreneur, he runs Totient, a tech consulting firm and MicroCharity, a crowd micro-donation platform.

Kailash leads the dictionary projects at the foundation and helps with technology. A hobbyist open source software developer, he works on Indic language projects such as Olam and Alar. Based out of Bengaluru, he is also the CTO at Zerodha.

Sathish leads the daily archival activities at the Bangalore centre. Retired from a corporate career, he enjoys writing short stories and poetry, and has a book to his name—Anubhava Narmma Nakshathrangal (അനുഭവ നർമ്മ നക്ഷത്രങ്ങൾ). He is the academic coordinator of Malayalam Mission (Karnataka), President of the Deccan Cultural Society (Bangalore), and founder secretary and ex-president of Kerala Samajam Bangalore Southwest.

Reena helps in the daily archival activities at the Bangalore centre. She is a graduate in travel and toursim and has worked in the travel and banking industries.

Junaid develops new technologies and helps run the software and technology stack at the foundation. He is a technology consultant hailing from Kannur, and has helped Shiju in his archival over a long period of time.

Meena helps in the daily archival activities at the Thiruvanathapuram centre. She is a graduate in literature. Her interests are literature, travel, music and cinema.

Deepthi helps in the daily archival activities at the Thiruvanathapuram centre. She is a graduate in sociology and certified in Library and Information Sciences and has seven years of experience in medical research and records management.

Ameen helps in the daily archival activities at the Thiruvanathapuram centre. He is interested in open source and public-contribution projects. He is currently pursuing BA LLB from Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. He has worked on transcription and public-mapping projects.

Deepthi helps in the daily archival activities at the University of Madras Library centre. She is a commerce graduate from MG University, Kerala.

Bincy helps in the daily archival activities at the University of Madras Library centre. She is a commerce graduate from Kannur University, Kerala.