sva used to work with wood but ended up playing an active role in the one of the oldest hacker associations in the world, the Chaos Computer Club & its conferences. She also (co-) founded and mentored various hackspaces, and might be know among hackers in India for her work on kickstarting the idea of hackercamps like hillhacks.in and hackbeach.in. Besides she held multiple cryptoparties and is a member of the cryptoparty-admin-team. Today sva continues working on the goal to have privacy by default for everyone together with the Swiss p≡p foundation. She holds a diploma/master in social/cultural anthropology, philosophy and computer science from Munich.