Shoaib Dar is an engineer turned educator and the Founder & CEO of Pi Jam Foundation, a non-profit committed to cultivating learning ecosystems where problem-solving, creativity, and future skills flourish, enabled by accessible, affordable, and contextually relevant technology-learning experiences for children, educators, and government systems across India. Inspired by his experience teaching in a government school, where he saw firsthand the deep digital and educational inequities caused by limited access to technology, Shoaib set out to bridge this gap for students from low-income communities.

Shoaib has been recognised as one of India’s “Top 10 Modern Engineers” by The Better India, featured twice in the Hindustan Times “30 Under 30” (2017 and 2018), and honored as a Distinguished Alumnus for Social Development by Vellore Institute of Technology. His work has also earned the NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum Award in Education Innovation (2018) and The Better India PC for Change Award. He is an Acumen Fellow (2022), has contributed to NCERT’s AI textbook development, and has delivered keynotes at platforms such as the ACM Compute Conference.