Kaninik Baradi is an engineer exploring ways in which better management and technology can scaffold each other to build better cities. In 2019, he graduated from the Faculty of Technology undergraduate programme at CEPT. Since then, he has taught at CEPT and IIT-Gandhinagar, and worked at Urban Management Centre as a research associate. Kaninik has contributed to programme design, social mobilisation, institution building, municipal data management, e-learning, urban poverty schemes, and heritage documentation projects.