Milestones

MIT 6.S087: Foundation Models & Generative AI

Certification

Aug 2025 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT certification covering foundation models, generative AI architectures, and AI agents.

Advanced certification on MCP — covering multi-agent systems, generative AI, and production patterns for context-rich AI applications.

Certification covering MCP fundamentals — AI agents, Claude integration, and context protocol design patterns.

Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications

Certification

Jun 2025 · Weaviate · DeepLearning.AI

Certification covering vector database internals, embedding model selection, semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and production deployment patterns for AI-native applications.

Google India Community Summit — Udaipur

Community

2024 · Google Developers · GDG Bhopal

Third consecutive invitation to Google's national summit for GDG organisers across India. Represented GDG Bhopal alongside community leads from every state. Workshops on developer community growth and the future of AI tooling.

Google India Community Summit — Goa

Community

2023 · Google Developers · GDG Bhopal

Second consecutive invitation to the national summit. Sessions on cloud-native development, community scaling strategies, and Google's developer programs for tier-2 cities.

Google India Community Summit — Ladakh

Community

2022 · Google Developers · GDG Bhopal

First of three consecutive invitations to Google's national organiser summit. Represented GDG Bhopal at the Ladakh edition — a programme for top community leads across India.

Hackathon Judge — NIT Bhopal Version Beta

Speaking

2019–2022 · ISTE MANIT · Four consecutive editions

Returned as judge and mentor for Version Beta — Central India's largest 36-hour hackathon run by ISTE MANIT chapter — for four consecutive years. Evaluated teams on product thinking, technical depth, and execution. Also delivered sessions on product development at the adjacent conference.

Selected Dec 2018 as 1 of 200 developers globally — 100 from Asia — for an intensive Machine Learning scholarship. Issued Jan 2020. Covered Python for ML, statistical thinking, supervised and unsupervised learning, and deep learning foundations.

"Online Safety for You" — Women-focused Workshop

Speaking

May 2020 · Women Techmakers · Jigsaw · GDG Bhopal · Developer Circles

Co-hosted a women-focused discussion on being safe online with Chahak Chugh (VP-PR, Toastmasters Bangalore, Mental Health Speaker). Brought resources from Google's Jigsaw team. A joint initiative of Women Techmakers, Jigsaw, GDG Bhopal, and Developer Circles Bhopal from Facebook.

Hackathon Judge — Isohack, Acropolis Technical Campus

Speaking

Feb 2020 · Acropolis Technical Campus, Indore

Judged and mentored teams at Isohack — Acropolis Technical Campus's flagship hackathon. Delivered a session on product development: how to go from idea to working demo in 24 hours. Felicitated by Dr. Shivajirao Kadam, the founder of the institution.

GDG Bhopal Co-organiser

Community

Jun 2019 – Aug 2025 · Google Developers Group · 10K+ community

Co-organised GDG Bhopal over six years, growing it from a small local meetup to a 10K+ developer community. Ran technical sessions, workshops, and hands-on labs on cloud computing, AI/ML, and open source. Invited to Google India Community Summit three times: Ladakh 2022, Goa 2023, Udaipur 2024.

"Getting Started with Python" — Workshop

Speaking

2019 · GDG Bhopal · Bhopal Coders · Meta Developer Circles

200+ attendees — so many that it was split into two back-to-back sessions on the same day. Students, senior engineers, veteran professionals, mentors. Six years later (2025), an attendee credited this session for becoming a Data Engineer.

Udacity Technology Scholar — Bertelsmann Foundation

Scholarship

Nov 2019 · Bertelsmann Foundation · Udacity

Selected for the Bertelsmann Technology Scholarship Challenge — Data Analyst Nanodegree track. Competitive programme with a challenge phase followed by a full scholarship for top performers.

Guest Speaker — NIT Bhopal Version Beta International Conference

Speaking

Oct 2019 · Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal

Invited as guest speaker at the Version Beta International Conference alongside the hackathon. Delivered a session on product development and building with emerging technologies.

1st — OCT TechFizz Software Presentation

Award

Apr 2019 · Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal

Won the Software Presentation category at TechFizz — OCT's annual technical festival. Presented a working product to a panel of faculty judges and industry professionals.

2nd — OCT TechFizz Code-hunt

Award

Apr 2019 · Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal

Second place in the Code-hunt competitive programming event at TechFizz 2019 — a timed multi-round challenge covering algorithms, data structures, and problem solving.

EDII Guest Speaker — Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp

Speaking

Feb 2019 · EDII Ahmedabad · E-Cell, Bansal Group of Institutes

Invited as guest speaker at an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp organised by the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad. Spoke on the entrepreneurial journey — from idea validation and early traction to navigating failure and building in public.

Part of LinkedIn's Campus Editors programme — created content on student career journeys, engineering, and community building. Contributed to LinkedIn's India student content strategy.

TEDx Campus Ambassador

Volunteering

Jan – Feb 2019 · TED Conferences · Medicaps University, Indore

Campus ambassador for TEDx Medicaps University Indore — drove awareness, coordinated student outreach, and helped bring attendees to the event on February 18, 2019.

IIT Kharagpur Campus Ambassador

Volunteering

Feb 2019 · Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Served as campus ambassador for IIT Kharagpur's annual events, promoting participation from central India and coordinating with local student communities.

Selected in December 2018 for the Machine Learning scholarship backed by Facebook Developer Circles and DataCamp. Formally issued January 2020.

Volunteered as part of Microsoft's AI Rockstar programme — evangelising AI tools and Azure services to student developers across Bhopal, running workshops on cognitive services and introductory ML.

Code.org — Hour of Code City Coordinator

Volunteering

Nov – Dec 2018 · Code.org · Bhopal

Coordinated the Hour of Code 2018 initiative across Bhopal in partnership with Progate. Hosted two hands-on Python sessions reaching 200+ high school students — many writing their first lines of code. Received a letter of appreciation from the Aditya Birla Group of Schools.

1st Place — NIT Bhopal Version Beta Hackathon

Award

Nov 2018 · ISTE MANIT · Central India's largest 36-hour hackathon

Won first place at Version Beta — NIT Bhopal's flagship 36-hour hackathon — with Vida, an AI-enabled transliteration keyboard for Indic scripts. The project used NLP models to allow users to type in any Indian language using phonetic English input, in real-time.

2nd Runner Up — Samriddh MP State Innovation Competition

Award

Nov 2018 · Government of Madhya Pradesh

Startup Spotwash placed 2nd Runner Up in the state-level Samriddh MP innovation competition — a Government of MP initiative to recognise and incubate student-led ventures. Felicitated personally by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at CM House. Covered by Dainik Bhaskar and Patrika.

Facebook PyTorch Udacity Scholarship

Scholarship

Oct 2018 · Facebook · Udacity

Selected amongst 10,000 for the Facebook PyTorch Scholarship Challenge — a competitive programme that offered a full Deep Learning with PyTorch Nanodegree to top performers. Covered neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, and transfer learning with PyTorch.

3rd Place — IIT Bombay Techfest CoDecode

Award

Oct 2018 · IIT Bombay · North India Zonals

Placed 3rd at CoDecode — IIT Bombay Techfest's competitive programming event, North India Zonals. One of Asia's largest tech festivals. The competition covered algorithmic problem-solving under time pressure.

1st — TechAcme Software Presentation

Award

Feb 2018 · Oriental Institute of Science & Technology, Bhopal

Won the Software Presentation category at Tech Acme 2018 — OIST's technical festival. Presented a live demo of Ascolta, a voice-powered application built during the early days of exploring NLP and speech recognition.

Lemon School of Entrepreneurship — Volunteer

Volunteering

Mar 2018 · Lemon Ideas, Nagpur · AIC Aartech, Bhopal

Volunteered at Innopreneurs 2018 — a joint initiative between Lemon School of Entrepreneurship (Nagpur) and AIC Aartech Incubation Centre (Bhopal). Helped mentor early-stage student startups through ideation workshops.

1st — Full Stack Developer Hackathon

Award

Dec 2017 · HDFC Life (ADCAT) & Skillenza

Won first place in a Full Stack Developer Hackathon organised by HDFC Life (ADCAT) and Skillenza.

"The Computer Wizard"

Award

Aug 2016 · Aditya Birla Group of Schools

Honoured by the Aditya Birla Group of Schools for building a fully digital, paper-free School Council Elections system — replacing a manual ballot process with a self-built web application. The first time the school ran a completely paperless election. Recognised at the school's annual ceremony.

2nd Runner Up — Chinmaya Mission National Quiz Competition

Award

Nov 2013 · Chinmaya Mission · District Level

Placed 2nd Runner Up at the district level of "Transform Indians to Transform India" — a national quiz competition by Chinmaya Mission.