Hi. I’m Shivan. I work on and care about privacy on the Internet, and my writing (personal and work) has appeared 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, and am trying to find IRL connection and meaning in the city. SF is a beautiful city.

I’m currently the VP of Security and Privacy at Brave browser, where I lead and manage the Privacy, Security, Adblocking and Webcompat teams. We add privacy features, 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 recently contributed an essay on centralization in Internet privacy in a book published by Meatspace Press: Eaten by the Internet.

I write poetry but would like to post longer form pieces. I’m always trying to write more.