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Excited to come full circle! 💫 Reflecting on my recent experience as a panelist at the "InnVent for Scholars" hackathon, where I had the honor of…
Excited to come full circle! 💫 Reflecting on my recent experience as a panelist at the "InnVent for Scholars" hackathon, where I had the honor of…
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I am pleased to share that I have completed my Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research (DipASR) with a concentration in…
I am pleased to share that I have completed my Post-Graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research (DipASR) with a concentration in…
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A new issue of my newsletter releases in <15 minutes! And in this one, we're discussing what burnout means and how you can deal with it 💭 You can…
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Experience
Education
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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)
Licenses & Certifications
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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#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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 -
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 -
Volunteer
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
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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).
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- Removes background from your picture
- Register via email or login as guest
- Saves images to your profile (for logged in users)
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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.
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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.
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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 creatorsSee project -
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. -
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 creatorsSee project -
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.
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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 MLHOther creatorsSee project -
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.
Honors & Awards
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2017 Fermat Contest Certificate of Distinction
CEMC, University of Waterloo
Awarded for achieving rank among the Top 25%
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2015 Cayley Contest Certificate of Distinction
CEMC, University of Waterloo
Awarded for achieving rank among the Top 25%
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National Creativity Olympiad AIR 9
National Creativity Olympiad
Achieved All India Rank 9 out of all the participants from Class 8
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Hindi
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Spanish
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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DevNetwork
Developer Evangelist/Advocate Advisory Board Member
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.NET Foundation
Member
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