Mangala is a native New Yorker who has been working with information technologies since 1984 and is presently working part time as a C++ software developer and a Unix system administrator. The other part of his time is spent as a geophysics student at a university in Germany. He is a member of the German Chaos Computer Club and also part of other hacker groups such as 't-Klaphek, based in Utrecht. In addition, he's helped to organize the Orange County (California) 2600 meetings.