A co-founder of IT for Change, Guru has over 35 years of experience in the development and corporate sectors, including stints in Government and Academia. Guru leads ITfC’s work in education, including in research, field projects, curriculum design, systemic reform and policy advocacy. His areas of expertise include EdTech, Teacher Education, and Educational Leadership. He was earlier with Azim Premji Foundation and the ‘Policy Planning Unit’ in Karnataka’s education department. He has been a visiting faculty at TISS Mumbai and Hyderabad for their Masters in Education programs, teaching 'Education Leadership and Management' and ‘ICT and Education’ courses.
Guru’s recent work has focused on the challenges to education from the AI phenomena, which he sees as a part of the larger ‘platformization’ of education issue. He works and advocates for ‘Public EdTech’, where EdTech is publicly owned and democratically designed to serve the progressive aims of education.