Aditya Oberai

Aditya Oberai

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Aditya Oberai is a Developer Advocate at Appwrite and an avid tech community and…

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    Appwrite

    Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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    India

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    India

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    Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

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    India

Education

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    Amity University Noida

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    Activities and Societies: Google Developer Student Club Lead

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    Activities and Societies: 1. Motor Mechanics STA - Boy in-Charge 2. Score Magazine - Senior Editor 3. Junior Math Colloquium Society - Boy in-Charge 4. School Technology Council - House Senior Represenative 5. Inter House Shanti Swaroop Science Essay Competition - 2nd Best Essay 6. First Aid SUPW - House First Aid Captain 7. Founder's Day Computer Science Exhibition - Leader of the 'doscoOS' team 8. Midterm Trek Private Party Leader - Led two treks (Dodital, Kedarnath)

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Volunteer Experience

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    Twilio Champion

    Twilio

    - 2 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    The Twilio Champions program is a global network of expert developers who actively support developer communities by speaking at events, publishing content, contributing to online communities and hosting Twilio Superclass events.

    Learn more: https://twilio.com/champions

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    Co-organizer

    HackOn Hackathon

    - 1 year 3 months

    Education

    HackOn was a fully online, people-focused hackathon where young minds possessing a passion for solving real-life problems come together to build innovative solutions. Whether you are a beginner or an expert coder, here is the perfect chance to hone your skills and witness the competitive yet inclusive developer community around you! We aimed to use participants' skills to help battle against the issues being faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    With 8298 participants, HackOn 2.0 was…

    HackOn was a fully online, people-focused hackathon where young minds possessing a passion for solving real-life problems come together to build innovative solutions. Whether you are a beginner or an expert coder, here is the perfect chance to hone your skills and witness the competitive yet inclusive developer community around you! We aimed to use participants' skills to help battle against the issues being faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    With 8298 participants, HackOn 2.0 was arguably the largest student-run pan-India digital hackathon.

    For more details, check out: https://hackon.tech

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    Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

    Microsoft

    - 1 year 11 months

    Education

    Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors (formerly Microsoft Student Partners) are a global group of campus leaders who are eager to help fellow students, create robust tech communities and develop technical and career skills for the future.

    - Have organized/spoken at 50+ events on various Microsoft technologies, tech communities, and hackathons so far

    Achievements:

    - Selected by the Program Operations team in a cohort of 23 new Gold Student Ambassadors from the 1200+…

    Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors (formerly Microsoft Student Partners) are a global group of campus leaders who are eager to help fellow students, create robust tech communities and develop technical and career skills for the future.

    - Have organized/spoken at 50+ events on various Microsoft technologies, tech communities, and hackathons so far

    Achievements:

    - Selected by the Program Operations team in a cohort of 23 new Gold Student Ambassadors from the 1200+ Ambassadors in India (16/10/2020)

    - Selected among the top 50 Microsoft Student Partners in the Asia-Pacific region to attend the MSP Asia Regional Summit 2020

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    Google Developer Student Clubs Lead

    Google

    - 1 year

    Science and Technology

    Evangelizing Google’s technologies and empowering the student community as the official Google Developer Student Club Lead for my university for the year 2021-22

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    Superhero

    C3 Universe

    - 9 months

    Science and Technology

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    Co-organizer

    Global AI Mumbai

    - Present 3 years 10 months

    Science and Technology

    The Global AI Community organizes free events for people that are passionate about Artificial Intelligence. The community aims to be the perfect balance between quality content, awesome lectures, getting your hands dirty, and learn & share with other community members. During these events, you will get inspired through sessions and get your hands dirty during the workshops.

    Join us at: https://www.meetup.com/Global-AI-Community-Mumbai

  • #IamRemarkable Facilitator

    #IamRemarkable

    - Present 3 years 11 months

    #IamRemarkable is a Google initiative empowering women and other underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond. Do visit: https://iamremarkable.withgoogle.com

    As an #IamRemarkable facilitator, I host workshops within my network and community.

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    Advisor

    EquiCode

    - 1 year 6 months

    Education

    EquiCode is an inclusive tech community that focuses on the holistic development of beginners and veterans alike, focusing on cultivating a diverse learning environment. I am active as an advisor, guiding the organizing team that founded the community

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    General Secretary (Core Team Member)

    Developer Student Club - Amity University

    - 11 months

    Evangelizing Google’s products and technologies in my university through various seminars and club activities

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    Student Lead Coordinator

    AmiHacks

    - 1 year 2 months

    Education

    Ami-Hacks is a four-day online hackathon organized by Amity University, Noida under the Amity Youth Forum Online 2020 which aims to push young students to provide practical and innovative solutions to real-world problems.

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    Co-organizer - DecentralHacks

    Octaloop

    - 2 months

    Education

    DecentralHacks is a community-driven hackathon that spans over an entire week and encourages developing blockchain-centric solutions that can affect social good, especially in fields like FinTech, Healthcare, and Education.

    Do check out the hackathon at https://decentral-hacks.hackerearth.com

  • Volunteer

    ngGirls India

    - 2 months

    Education

    ngGirls is WomenInTech initiative that has been promoting Angular education across the globe.

    In July 2020, the All About Web community organized the first ngGirls India (https://ng-girls.org/india-2020/) virtually for women across the country.

    I was responsible for participant onboarding to the event channels as well as mentor-participant coordination during the event.

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    Local Hack Day: Share Organizer

    Major League Hacking

    - 2 months

    Education

    Local Hack Day: Share is a global online demo day to highlight the accomplishments of your community. Over the course of 12 hours, attendees spent time writing and speaking about the things they learned and built during the last year. At the end of the event, they added their projects to their portfolios to share with the world.

    Check out our event page here: https://localhackday.mlh.io/share/locations/3384

  • Volunteer Team Lead

    ng-India 2020 and 2022

    - 2 years 4 months

    Science and Technology

    ng-India is the largest gathering of Angular community in India. With about 600 people attending the 2020 edition and 500 attending the 2022 edition, participants interacted with and learnt from the creators of Angular, RxJS Core team members, Google Developer Experts, Microsoft MVPs and authors coming from the various countries of the world to teach Angular. 

    I led the volunteer team in order to ensure the smooth running of the event, managing and fulfilling tasks that included, but…

    ng-India is the largest gathering of Angular community in India. With about 600 people attending the 2020 edition and 500 attending the 2022 edition, participants interacted with and learnt from the creators of Angular, RxJS Core team members, Google Developer Experts, Microsoft MVPs and authors coming from the various countries of the world to teach Angular. 

    I led the volunteer team in order to ensure the smooth running of the event, managing and fulfilling tasks that included, but were not limited to, attendee registrations, speaker and sponsor hospitality, certificate distribution, social media marketing and stage management.

    Check out my article on ngIndia 2020 at https://bit.ly/ngindia2020

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    Campus Ambassador

    CoCampus

    - 7 months

    - Increased outreach of the CoCampus platform and live trainings to engineering students across the Delhi-NCR

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    Campus Ambassador

    CompTIA

    - 9 months

    Science and Technology

    - Evangelized CompTIA’s educational products and certifications in my university through various seminars and club activities

    - Organized and spoke at a seminar on the importance of IT certifications in front of an audience of 100+ students

    - Certificate can be viewed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SsA8urV8RO3IMtkz-zxiJ5zujtZbS0SM/view?usp=sharing

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    COP+25 Climate Action Coordinator

    Indian Astrobiology Research Foundation

    - 4 months

    Environment

    - Increased outreach and awareness of the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP+25 and its objectives as well as drove participation in the COP+25 International Climate Action Certification Course.

    - Completed the COP+25 International Climate Action Certification Course to improve my knowledge and widen my perspective about climate change and its implications in various fields

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    Terry Fox Run

    - 1 month

    Health

    The Terry Fox Run is an annual non-competitive charity event held in numerous regions around the world in commemoration of Canadian cancer activist Terry Fox, and his Marathon of Hope, and to raise money for cancer research.

    I helped with the registrations for students from our school and outside.

Projects

  • Background Remover

    Background Remover is a SvelteKit app that uses Appwrite Cloud and Azure AI to remove the background from your headshots (and other images).

    Features:

    - Removes background from your picture
    - Register via email or login as guest
    - Saves images to your profile (for logged in users)
    - Allows viewing (and sharing) of picture links (for logged in users)

  • Alt Text Generator

    Alt Text Generator is a Vite + Svelte app that uses Azure OpenAI Service and a Vercel Serverless Function to analyse an image and provide you with a caption to use as alt text to help improve the accessibility of your applications and content.

    GitHub Repo: https://github.com/adityaoberai/Alt-Text-Generator

    See project
  • Social Mojifier

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    Social Mojifier emojifies your selfie based on your predominant emotion and allows you to save and share it on your social media handles with the rest of the world! It's a fun little app to share how you're feeling with whoever you would like to out there in a really cool way.

    See project
  • Marvelous

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    Marvelous is your one and only solution to get the entire Marvel comic books listings and find where you can buy them at the best price possible.

    Using Marvelous, you can choose your favourite characters and comic book creators from the Marvel universe, find all the series they are featured in, discover all the comics that were a part of those series, and find the best listings available for those comics on eBay and Amazon.

    Marvelous was the winner of the "Best Use Of Linode…

    Marvelous is your one and only solution to get the entire Marvel comic books listings and find where you can buy them at the best price possible.

    Using Marvelous, you can choose your favourite characters and comic book creators from the Marvel universe, find all the series they are featured in, discover all the comics that were a part of those series, and find the best listings available for those comics on eBay and Amazon.

    Marvelous was the winner of the "Best Use Of Linode Cloud" track at Hacktoon.

    Other creators
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  • SOS App

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    The SOS App SMSes a pre-decided phone number with the coordinates and address of the device in case the user feels that they are unsafe.

    It contains 2 main components:

    1. A Xamarin.Forms app (for Android) that gets the coordinates of the phone through the Xamarin.Essentials Geolocation API and call the SOS Azure Function.

    2. An Azure Function (with .NET) that reverse geocodes the coordinates to get the address from the Google Maps Geocoding API and uses Twilio Programmable…

    The SOS App SMSes a pre-decided phone number with the coordinates and address of the device in case the user feels that they are unsafe.

    It contains 2 main components:

    1. A Xamarin.Forms app (for Android) that gets the coordinates of the phone through the Xamarin.Essentials Geolocation API and call the SOS Azure Function.

    2. An Azure Function (with .NET) that reverse geocodes the coordinates to get the address from the Google Maps Geocoding API and uses Twilio Programmable Message to send an SOS message to the pre-decided number.

    See project
  • CodeCapture - Mobile App and Web App

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    CodeCapture is an application that aims to facilitate coding education for individuals that have limited to no access to computer systems and computer labs.

    With CodeCapture, YOU DO NOT NEED TO TYPE TO CODE!

    We have developed two versions of the CodeCapture application:

    - Web App
    - Cross-platform Mobile App

    The CodeCapture Web App allows you to simply take a picture of your code, extract the code, and run it in your browser. We have deployed a working prototype of…

    CodeCapture is an application that aims to facilitate coding education for individuals that have limited to no access to computer systems and computer labs.

    With CodeCapture, YOU DO NOT NEED TO TYPE TO CODE!

    We have developed two versions of the CodeCapture application:

    - Web App
    - Cross-platform Mobile App

    The CodeCapture Web App allows you to simply take a picture of your code, extract the code, and run it in your browser. We have deployed a working prototype of the application with an hour-long JavaScript introductory tutorial that has been accepted by Code.org to be featured in Hour of Code 2020. It has been featured on https://hourofcode.com/in/en/learn for the Computer Science Education Week 2020. Our team were selected as the National Winners in the Education category at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2021 India Chapter for the same.

    The CodeCapture Mobile App has the functionality to extract code (C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python) from images of handwritten text and then allow the user to edit, compile, and share the result via email/SMS as well as various lessons on C++ embedded from YouTube. It has been featured in the .NET Conf 2020 Student Showcase.

    Other creators
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  • FakeACall

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    FakeACall is an Android Wear application that allows the smartwatch owner to fake a phone call in order to get out of situations they may want to.

    It has 2 main components:

    1. The Xamarin.Android project used to build the Android Wear OS app.

    2. The Azure Function (with .NET) that uses Twilio Programmable Voice to fake a call.

    See project
  • CodeCapture - VS Code Extension

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    CodeCapture is a collaborative VS Code Extension built in JavaScript that scans handwritten C code from images using Azure Computer Vision and saves it in a ".c" file in the directory to be checked and tested.

    This is a tool that is designed to benefit educators and students in developing countries where accessibility to computers is limited and students are learning programming via pen-and-paper. It allows educators to test and check the code developed by their students on a single…

    CodeCapture is a collaborative VS Code Extension built in JavaScript that scans handwritten C code from images using Azure Computer Vision and saves it in a ".c" file in the directory to be checked and tested.

    This is a tool that is designed to benefit educators and students in developing countries where accessibility to computers is limited and students are learning programming via pen-and-paper. It allows educators to test and check the code developed by their students on a single device in a short period of time.

    For this project, we won the "Best Overall" prize at the Microsoft VS Code Hackathon organized in collaboration with MLH

    Other creators
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  • TagCOVID

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    TagCOVID is a COVID-19 Patient Cataloguing Application to help healthcare institutions catalogue patient contact details from the comfort of their smartphones or PCs

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  • NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

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    A Universal Windows Platform App to load NASA's 'Astronomy Picture Of the Day'. The code was created with the help of the Microsoft Learn platform.

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  • ObiCoin

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    ObiCoin is a basic SHA256 based Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency that I worked on. It is based on SavjeeCoin.

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Honors & Awards

  • CMX Community Industry Awards 2024: Best Developer Relations Community Professional of the Year

    CMX

    The CMX Community Industry Awards celebrate the achievements of the best in the community industry.

  • 2023 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award

    Microsoft

    The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with users and Microsoft.

    Here's my MVP profile: https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5005058

  • Hacktoon - Best Use of Linode Cloud

    Major League Hacking

    Won the "Best Use Of Linode Cloud" prize at Hacktoon, a hackathon hosted by Major League Hacking.

    Here's the project: https://devpost.com/software/marvelous-ym2h5a

  • MLH Top 50 Class of 2021

    Major League Hacking

    I was named one of Major League Hacking’s (MLH) Top 50 Hackers in 2021. Out of the 135,000 students who participated in hackathons, my story was one of 50 that was recognized on this list due to my projects and impact on other students in the community.

    Here is my MLH Top 50 showcase page: https://top.mlh.io/2021/profiles/aditya-oberai

  • Twilio Champion

    Twilio

    The Twilio Champions program is a global network of expert developers who actively support developer communities by speaking at events, publishing content, contributing to online communities and hosting Twilio Superclass events.

    Learn more: https://twilio.com/champions

  • Azure AI Hackathon - Popular Choice Prize

    Microsoft

    Won the "Popular Choice" Prize for being among the Top 5 highest voted teams in the Azure AI Hackathon

  • Azure Heroes "AI Ambassador" Digital Badger

    Microsoft

    Azure Heroes is a Microsoft initiative that aims to recognize members of the technical community with digital collectable badgers for meaningful acts of impact. Azure Heroes are created to inspire developers to learn, coach, and build on Azure and promote a healthy, inclusive community.

    The AI Ambassador badger was given for speaking at the Global AI Student Conference in April 2021.

    Verification link: https://jumpnet.enjinx.io/eth/asset/68c0000000000047/592/

  • Imagine Cup 2021 India Championship - Winner - Education Category

    Microsoft

    Selected as the National Winner in the Education category at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2021 India Chapter

    Here is the winner certificate: https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/Member/WinnerCertificate?userid=XDXErtXGleobIcan7GVTTA%253d%253d&compId=HH0wAl06ACf%252fY9VUc3o6cw%253d%253d&teamId=42E6Y%252bB%252b088sXx%252bzVPud%252bw%253d%253d

  • Tutorials Link Tech Community Impact Award 2020

    Tutorials Link

    Received this award from Tutorials Link for my activities in the tech community

    Check the certificate here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16W8-A3738JA5r6Jac3CXjotdiadAniUq/view?usp=sharing

  • Azure Heroes "Community Hero" Digital Badger

    Microsoft

    Azure Heroes is a Microsoft initiative that aims to recognize members of the technical community with digital collectable badgers for meaningful acts of impact. Azure Heroes are created to inspire developers to learn, coach, and build on Azure and promote a healthy, inclusive community.

    The Community Hero badgers (limited to 550) are given out for contributing materially by organizing meetups or conferences or by sharing content and being an active member of the…

    Azure Heroes is a Microsoft initiative that aims to recognize members of the technical community with digital collectable badgers for meaningful acts of impact. Azure Heroes are created to inspire developers to learn, coach, and build on Azure and promote a healthy, inclusive community.

    The Community Hero badgers (limited to 550) are given out for contributing materially by organizing meetups or conferences or by sharing content and being an active member of the community.

    Verification link: https://enjinx.io/eth/asset/91237646

  • Best Overall Prize at Microsoft Visual Studio Code Hackathon

    Microsoft

    Received the Best Overall prize for our project "CodeCapture" at the first-ever Microsoft VS Code Hackathon organized in collaboration with MLH

    Check out the project at: https://devpost.com/software/codecapture

  • Second Runner Up - Mindfuse

    Boolean Tech Club, Sri Venkateshwar College

    Achieved Second Runner Up in Mindfuse, the technical quiz event held as a part of Fluctuation Online, the first online tech fest hosted by Boolean Tech Club of Sri Venkateshwar College, Delhi University

  • Udacity Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Scholarship 2020

    Udacity

    Based on the application procedure, I have received a full scholarship to be enrolled into the Udacity Hybrid Cloud foundational course designed in collaboration with Nutanix

  • 2nd Best Essay of Shanti Swaroop Science Essay Competition

    The Doon School, Dehradun

    Won the award of the 2nd Best Essay of Shanti Swaroop Science Essay Competition, which was influential in winning the House Cup for the same

  • 2017 Fermat Contest Certificate of Distinction

    CEMC, University of Waterloo

    Awarded for achieving rank among the Top 25%

  • 2015 Cayley Contest Certificate of Distinction

    CEMC, University of Waterloo

    Awarded for achieving rank among the Top 25%

  • National Creativity Olympiad AIR 9

    National Creativity Olympiad

    Achieved All India Rank 9 out of all the participants from Class 8

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • DevNetwork

    Developer Evangelist/Advocate Advisory Board Member

    - Present
  • .NET Foundation

    Member

    - Present

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