Shoaib Dar
Founder & CEO
Pi Jam Foundation
About
Shoaib Dar is an engineer turned educator and the Founder & CEO of Pi Jam Foundation, a non-profit that cultivates learning ecosystems where problem-solving, creativity and future skills flourish, through accessible, affordable and contextually relevant technology-learning experiences for children, educators and government systems across India. Inspired by teaching in a government school, where he saw the digital and educational inequities caused by limited access to technology, he set out to bridge this gap for students from low-income communities. He was named 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 honoured as a Distinguished Alumnus for Social Development by Vellore Institute of Technology. His work has received 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, and has delivered keynotes at the ACM COMPUTE conference, Bett UK and elsewhere.