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Christie J Purackal is a computer vision engineer based in Southampton, with nine years of experience building production vision systems. He works at Audioscenic, developing real-time vision technology for spatial audio products. Christie is a core maintainer at Kornia, an international open-source organisation focused on computer vision, spatial AI and robotics. He created and leads Kornia-SLAM, a Rust-based visual SLAM system, and contributes to Kornia’s Rust and PyTorch ecosystems. He also serves as a Google Summer of Code organisation administrator and mentor. Previously, Christie co-founded the Kerala AI Initiative, building an AI and open-source community in Kochi, India, beginning in 2018.