Abhinav Pandagale

Abhinav's artistry comes from the times he used to sneakily paint drawings made by his sister. His hacking career began as a toddler, disassembling his toys but never put them back together. His entrepreneurial roots come from selling snacks at a school fair and making a loss of . Having learned how not to make money, he launched Hackerware.io - a boutique badgelife lab with in-house manufacturing - which has grown over the past nine years into a global presence across 19 countries. He’s often spotted at conferences around the world - hosting hardware villages or pulling off the kind of random shenanigans that earned him the Sin CON Person of the Year 2025 award.