Shubham Shinde graduated as a Computer Science engineer and has worked as a software engineer with a US based investment management firm. He has also previously worked with the Government Of Punjab, helping digitise internal processes and also led technology policy research at Pacta, a Bangalore based law firm and think tank. His interest in leveraging technology for the benefit of society and governance led him to pursue Master’s in Public Policy from the Kautilya School of Public Policy.
Aiming to build on his masters thesis on the “Problems in Software patents and their impact on innovation”, he joined NLSIU as a Research Associate for the Open Source Software (OSS) project that aims to study the economic value addition and impetus to innovation provided by OSS.