Hi. I’m Shivan. I work on and care about privacy on the Internet, and my writing (personal and work) has appeared several times on Hacker News, Reddit, Verge, Cory Doctorow’s blog and others.

You can go to my blog here.

I moved to San Francisco from Canada a few years ago. SF is a beautiful city, though I miss Vancouver a lot too.

I’m currently the VP of Security and Privacy at Brave browser, where I lead and manage the Privacy, Security, Adblocking and Webcompat engineering teams. We add privacy features in the browser, make sure that websites don’t break given Brave’s superior tracker blocking and anti-fingerprinting, do security and privacy reviews, handle security and privacy compliance and talk to regulators. When I find time, I represent the company externally at conferences and standards organizations.

I’ve previously worked on DNS, encrypted DNS, consent tooling and telemetry. I have an interest in privacy-respectful standards and am active in the IETF and W3C. I currently chair the Key Transparency and Oblivious HTTP working groups at the IETF, and the Privacy Enhancements and Assessments Research Group at the IRTF.

I recently contributed an essay on centralization in Internet privacy in a book published by Meatspace Press called Eaten by the Internet, which you can buy here. I am currently on the Advisory Council of Open Tech Fund’s Information Controls Fellowship. I have a strong interest in public interest technology and frequently collaborate with civil society.

I’m always trying to write more.