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Kaustubha Kalidindi

Tech lawyer

Professional Summary

Qualified to practice law in India with experience in corporate and technology law, policy analysis, and program management. Expertise includes cross-border contract drafting, grant writing, AI regulation, data privacy, open-source governance, and stakeholder engagement. Based in Bangalore, India; fluent in English, Hindi, Kannada, and Telugu.

Professional Experience

Sole Legal Counsel/ Program Manager (Uli)
TATTLE CIVIC TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
Mar 2024Present
Set up workflow for legal compliance.
Negotiated cross-border service agreements with national and international partner organizations.
Led development, writing, and submission of grant and funding proposals.
Managed legal and operations for a pilot project on LLM safety evaluation with ML Commons.
Contributed to a methodology for India-specific prompt generation information for AI safety datasets.
Served as consultant for Github, Inc. on the 2nd iteration of its Open-Source Community Manager training program (55 participants).
Led research and writing on cross-platform abuse and moderation on federated/decentralized platforms.
Planned, tracked, and executed the product roadmap for the Uli project (2024-25).
Developed an interactive game simulating compensation models between data workers and data vendors to illustrate fair compensation for annotators.
Taught modules on online gender-based violence and moderation on social media platforms.
Represented the organization at government and international stakeholder consultations and events on AI, online harms, and open-source development.
Fellow
SOFTWARE FREEDOM LAW CENTER, INDIA
May 2023Feb 2024
Drafted a petition challenging the mandatory seeding of minor students’ Aadhaar data onto the UDISE+ portal.
Wrote a survivor-centric guide on tackling online gender-based violence under Indian law.
Led a project on privacy policies’ explainers: Developed an assessment framework for analysing and evaluating the privacy policies and data collection practices of popular apps to help users understand the impact on their privacy.
Researcher for a project on open source AI in India: assessed law, policy, and licensing; co-designed and conducted over 20 interviews with experts to understand risks, opportunities and regulation.
Analysed and reported on the impact of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Associate, Project Finance
CYRIL AMARCHAND MANGALDAS
Jun 2022Oct 2022
Deal team member for due diligence report drafting, research, covenants, and SHA review on project finance aspects of a $300mn equity investment in a renewable energy corporation.
Fixed-term Paralegal
KHAITAN & CO
Nov 2021Jun 2022
Engaged in due diligence report drafting and corporate law research as part of the M&A corporate team in Delhi, focused on equity investments.

Education

B.B.A LLB (Hons)
O.P. Jindal Global University
2021-01
CGPA: 6.916/8.0.
Recipient of the Savitri Jindal Merit Scholarship (2016-21).
Consistently top 24%.
EU Platform Regulation Summer Course
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2025-01
Completed July 2025.
International Business Law Certificate
Columbia University, NY
2019-01
A+ Grade.

Certifications & Awards

Savitri Jindal Merit Scholarship (2016-2021)
O.P. Jindal Global University
2016-2021
Recipient; top 24%.
International Business Law Certificate — A+ Grade
Columbia University, NY
2019
Grade: A+.

Publications & Research

Moderating Cross-Platform and Cross-Instance Abuse on Decentralized Networks
Tech Policy Press, May 28, 2025.
Open Source AI and Ethical Development
Paper presented at Digital Citizen Summit 2024; Centre for Development Policy and Practice.
AI Safety Benchmark Datasets in Hindi
Written by Kaustubha Kalidindi; acknowledged by Tarunima Prabhakar; published December 4, 2024.
Dr. Shilpi Bhattacharya, Kaustubha Kalidindi, “India’s Rare Disease Policy should strengthen India’s Pharmaceutical R&D”
ASSOCHAM Corporate & Regulatory Affairs Bulletin, published April 2023.
OTT Platforms: Impact of (Un) Regulated Presence in India
Deiya Goswami, Kaustubha Kalidindi; King Stubb & Kasiva, published September 2020.

Selected Public Presentations and Panel Discussions

Github, Inc. — Empowering Communities: Tackling Online Gender Based Violence
Speaker
2024
Video talk on online gender-based violence.
Medianama — How Can AI Regulation Mitigate Harm Without Stifling Innovation? #Nama
Panelist
2024
Discussion on AI regulation and harm mitigation.
Medianama — Auditing AI Systems
Panelist
2025
Discussion on auditing AI systems.
Medianama — Why Indian Datasets and LLMs are Important
Speaker
2024
Discussion on importance of Indian datasets and LLMs.
Decentralized Infrastructures for Online Communities: Fediverse Governance
Speaker
2024
YouTube presentation.
Guest Lecturer, O.P. Jindal Global University
Lecturer
May 2025
Licensing Openness in AI.
Co-Creating Multi-lingual datasets for AI Safety
Presenter
DRAPAC Kuala Lumpur, 2025
Presentation at DRAPAC Kuala Lumpur.
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