About
Experienced in developer relations and evangelism for technical organisations with a knack for programming and development, focused on helping future developers be better.
Work Experience
* Published distributable use cases for DigitalOcean's offerings and created content around them in the form of blogs and community articles.
* Reworked Developer Engagement Programs to reflect DigitalOcean's commitment to fostering a healthy community of cloud enthusiasts.
* Identified and documented developer experience-related concerns and resolved them with the product team, influencing roadmap decisions.
* Managed and developed regional community events such as technical conferences and meet-ups in India and attended zonal events as a DO representative. Enabled over 1500 students and learners to get started with cloud computing on DigitalOcean with initiatives involving strategic event planning.
* Conducted research activities aimed at understanding user behavior and sentiment to nurture the virtual community of the organization.
* Implemented strategies to evangelise various DigitalOcean tools, with emphasis on App Platform.
* Curated publishable content around the newest offerings, including DigitalOcean Uptime.
* Organised DigitalOcean Events in India, with more than 400 cloud enthusiasts in attendance across different cities.
* Summarised monthly product and feature updates in the form of blogs and announcements while engaging with the online community over Discord.
* Laid the foundation for the codedamn Campus Evangelists Program, empowering more than 20 students across different states in India with tools to learn and grow with their respective communities.
* Strategised events that boosted monthly revenue by 30%.
* Mentored hackers and supported event organisers over member hackathons across the APAC region.
* Conducted technical workshops evangelising MLH and the various sponsors onboard including GitHub, Elastic and Dfinity.
* Engaged with the online community of Aviyel and implemented scalable and sustainable solutions to grow the numbers on Discord with a 10% monthly increase.
* Conducted user research & profiling and facilitated the onboarding of creators over the platform.
* Drafted content for the media team with an emphasis on trending technologies.
Education
Projects
GitHub Field Day India brings together leaders from different regional communities to hang out, become friends, learn from each other's mistakes and successes, and solve shared problems.
DigitalOcean's Developer Center provides a curated experience to help developers of all skill levels learn, build, upskill, and scale with DigitalOcean products and services.
Hacktoberfest is one of the most popular, well-attended annual global celebrations of open source. Every October, people from a variety of expertise backgrounds, and experience levels from all over the world come together and use their skills to help maintain open source projects.
Volunteering
Focused on fostering a diverse, inclusive, and welcoming community of budding developers, not just limited to my University but throughout the country. Conducted workshops and hands-on sessions aimed at introducing students to open-source software (OSS) and contributions. Also successfully hosted GitHub Field Day India 2024 in Delhi and Hyderabad, as well as the GitHub Career Fair 2023 in Delhi and Bangalore.
Collaborated on code, content, and community initiatives for various products and offerings at DigitalOcean. Ultimately, I took the lead on the program as part of the Developer Advocacy Team, driving engagement and scaling the initiative.
Hosted Season 1 of "Hacking Hackathons" on GitHub Campus TV, a show curated carefully to reconstruct the idea that students have about hackathons and provide the resources and guidance that folks usually miss out on.
Led the official Developer Student Club at SRM, powered by Google Developers, organizing flagship events and workshops and facilitating internal sessions to support members across various domains within the club.
Organized webinars and hands-on sessions to promote Voice User Interface development using the Alexa Skills Kit and SDK. I facilitated beginners in getting started with creating Skills on the platform while also developing multiple Skills myself.
Co-founded and led the official Hack Club, also the largest technical club of SRM in terms of members affiliated. Organized two webinars weekly to help freshers and sophomores find their interests in different subdomains of Technology, aimed at helping beginners grasp technical concepts effortlessly.
Led the official campus club of HackerEarth at my University to foster a community of competitive coders and evangelize the platform. Organized HackChennai, the club's flagship Hackathon, with over 1900 attendees in the maiden edition in association with multiple technical organizations.