The longer version.
The work, the rooms, the recognition.
And a few things that don’t fit in a bio.
Open a drawer.
108 entries. 13 categories. No ranking.
The whole collection.
12 entries are undated. That’s an honest answer.
96 entries from the original record, plus 12 additions from Talks, Writing and the personal archive. Dates and relative order are retained within each category; some descriptions are edited for clarity. Year filters include spans and planned entries.
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Section 01 8 entries
Work
Aug 2025 – now
↗Solutions Engineer, DevRev · Bengaluru.
Built production CX support agents for one8 and Lotto, including order lookup, tracking, returns, exchanges, cancellations and human handovers. By August 2026, around 80% of conversations were resolved end to end without a human. Also built Scaler’s browser-based calling integration, which recorded 2,500+ call sessions across 11 agents. Evaluated Claude and GPT for answer quality and operating cost.
2023 – 25
↗Solutions Engineer, Okta & Auth0.
First solutions-engineering hire in Okta India, supporting customers across APAC, including India, Australia and New Zealand. Four people when I joined, about 600 when I left, exactly 802 days later. Demos I built became global SE references. One weekend I learned Flutter to rebuild an Indonesian bank’s mobile UI on Auth0 APIs, keeping the familiar customer experience with a different identity provider. The bank signed, and the demo opened seven or eight similar opportunities.
Mar 2021 – May 2023
↗Conversational AI, Zammo · US, contract.
Public-sector deployments: ATL311 for the City of Atlanta: website, app and IVR, 24/7 access to city services for 500,000+ residents, announced by Mayor Andre Dickens. Conversational flight information for Vancouver International Airport, Canada’s second-busiest.
2021
↗Vixen Labs · London, contract.
Concurrent with Zammo. Built the interactive Google Action for the Voice Consumer Index 2021, the industry’s annual adoption study, 6,000+ consumers across the US, UK and Germany, cited by Voicebot and Forbes.
2019
↗Wild Planet · co-developed.
An animal-sound library: 500+ animals, 450,000+ monthly users, 10M+ interactions a week, Amazon’s most popular Fire TV skill of 2020. In 2024 a thirteen-year-old in Basti district used it to bark monkeys out of her kitchen. The story is hers; the skill happened to be there.
2017 – 23
↗Independent · voice.
1,000+ voice apps across ten Amazon marketplaces and 400+ clients, nearly six years freelance. A hundred-odd bespoke builds for brands: the first official McDonald’s skill in the UK, Girl Scouts of the USA, Sony Music, Reebok × Cardi B, Lysol and Finish, WikiHow, Warner Music Nashville, Maruti Suzuki, and Amazon itself (the Audio Ads demo their own sales teams used, plus Alexa Themes). Several hundred more were a repeatable radio-streaming product run at scale. One network alone took 81. Fiverr Top Rated Seller, about 500 five-star reviews.
2017 – 23
↗What the freelance years actually paid.
Early voice skills sold for $10–15. As my portfolio grew, I could charge $65 for similar work. More competition later brought prices back to $10–30. I moved one long-standing client off-platform to save fees, then ended up with $10,000 unpaid on a verbal agreement. I’m more careful now about payment terms and what protection a platform actually provides.
Undated
↗First internship: under Sanjeev Kapoor.
Before the voice apps, I interned for celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor.
Section 02 11 entries
Talks
2025 was my first year on an international stage: five talks, three continents, and the top 3% of speakers worldwide by activity, per Sessionize.
2025
↗Open Source Summit Korea · Linux Foundation.
Fine-grained authorization for agents: controlling which resources an agent can access on a user’s behalf.
2025
↗KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India.
First KubeCon.
2025
↗NDC Copenhagen.
Recorded. Also the source of the best photograph I own.
Jan 2025
↗NDC London.
The international debut, in a room of about 1,200. Recorded. The trip afterwards became three weeks across London, York, Edinburgh and Ireland.
Jun 2025
↗Securing beneficiaries in an insecure world with Okta · Charity Digital UK.
Reimagining Service Delivery. An Auth0 demo on securing access to digital services for charities. I presented as a featured speaker from Okta.
Watch the recording ↗2024
↗GitHub GitTogether · Bengaluru.
The hometown stage first.
Oct 2021
↗Alexa Developers.
Alexa & Friends with Ashish Jha, Alexa Champion. Remote.
Added from Talks
Session details on Talks ↗Sep 2020
↗VOICE Talks India, episode one.
The Transformative Power of Voice. Remote.
Added from Talks
Session details on Talks ↗Feb 2020
↗Alexa Community Day.
Making Money with Alexa. Bengaluru.
Added from Talks
Session details on Talks ↗Nov 2019
↗Alexa Developers.
Meet the Alexa Pioneers from India. Remote.
Added from Talks
Session details on Talks ↗
Section 03 5 entries
Teaching & mentorship
Oct 2026
↗Hacktoberfest Hack Day, Bengaluru.
Mentor and judge at the open-source AI hack day on 4 October 2026.
Feb 2024
↗TreeHacks, Stanford.
Judge and mentor.
2020
↗O’Reilly live training · AWS Certification Prep: Alexa Skill Builder.
Ran twice in one year, by demand. I hold the certification it prepped for.
2019 – 20
↗Google Summer of Code · Rocket.Chat.
Student in 2019, mentored by the founder and CEO; mentor in 2020, invited to the Mentor Summit. Student to mentor in a year.
Undated
↗Educative.io · interactive course.
Building Alexa skills, hands-on in the browser.
Section 04 11 entries
Awards & honours
Feb 2026
↗Global Demo Champion, DevRev.
Best demo across the entire sales org, at SKO: “Becoming Elite”, FY26.
2024
↗CIC Champion, Okta · Q3 FY25.
Signed off by the Director of Presales Strategy & Innovation and the Head of GIC India.
2021
↗Amazon Alexa Champion.
One of ten named that year, in a programme of sixty worldwide. Amazon’s citation: “immersed in the voice-first ecosystem, building more than 500 Alexa skills for businesses ranging from SMBs to the top Fortune 500 brands.”
2020
↗Alexa Developer Advisory Council.
Invite-only. Amazon’s letter confirms the feedback fed their product roadmap; they asked me what to build.
2020
↗Most popular Fire TV skill of 2020 · Wild Planet.
Per Amazon India’s own year-in-review.
2019
↗Webby Award · Purell Assistant.
For GOJO Industries.
2019
↗Alexa Community Evangelist of the Year.
Second consecutive win. The award was renamed from Community Influencer of the Year.
Nov 2019
↗Alexa Pioneer.
Among the first from India.
2018
↗Alexa Community Influencer of the Year.
First of two consecutive wins of the same community award.
2018
↗Alexa Student Influencer.
One of the first three in India.
2017
↗Top Intern, Eride.
Top 10 of 300.
Section 05 4 entries
Hackathons
Seven Alexa hackathons in India between 2018 and 2020: a prize in all seven, four first places, nine prizes in total. The standouts:
May 2018
↗The Ganga Quest · grand prize.
At the first Alexa hackathon ever held in India.
2020
↗Indian Traveller · 1st place, Smart India Hackathon.
2026
↗VibeCon India.
A travel-contacts app with visa intelligence for 195 countries. Did not win. Taking it to production anyway.
May 2020
↗Learn Lingo.
Cancelled travel plans became an Alexa skill for learning phrases and practising pronunciation. First prize, The Great Indian Alexa Hackathon. I designed and developed the conversational experience; Mohan Raj created the visual experience.
Added from the personal archive
Watch the Learn Lingo demo ↗
Section 06 7 entries
Press & profiles
2026
↗India Today · The Economic Times · News18.
“How a 19-year-old Bengaluru techie’s cold email to Jeff Bezos changed his career path forever.”
2024
↗Times of India · Business Today · India TV · NDTV · Yahoo News Australia · Analytics India Magazine.
The Wild Planet story. ANI’s clip did 813,000 views.
Jun 2024
↗The Economic Times · News18 · Moneycontrol · Times Now · News Karnataka.
The rent post. I put up the view from my Bengaluru flat and what it cost: ₹80,000, three bedrooms, two flatmates. About a million people had an opinion. Then strangers in Bengaluru and Mumbai started posting their own windows and their own rents. My defence, quoted in most of the coverage: “I respect my time more than money.”
Aug 2024
↗Breaking Prod · the long interview.
An hour on the freelance years, the trading, and why I stopped chasing salary, on Vivek’s podcast. Episode three, in Hinglish. Most of what is on this site in one sentence is in that recording in ten minutes, including the parts that did not go well.
2022
↗Amazon Developer Blog · profile.
“This engineering student turned down a full-time job to earn a living developing Alexa skills for the world’s leading brands.” Sixth of Amazon’s ten most-read Alexa posts that year.
Aug 2018
↗Amazon India · “The Secret Behind Alexa’s Desi Connection”.
One of three developers profiled.
2018
↗The Ken.
Quoted as an expert on the voice ecosystem.
Section 07 11 entries
Writing
Oct 2026
↗Least privilege is not injection prevention
What a small database experiment taught me about limiting an AI assistant’s access, and why an allowed reply can still be wrong.
Added from Writing
Read the published piece ↗Oct 2025
↗SmartSpend: agentic expense management with fine-grained authorization
An expense-management app where an agent follows the user’s approval permissions. Built for a development challenge.
Added from Writing
Read the published piece ↗Sep 2025
↗Securing Agentic/RAG Pipelines with Fine-Grained Authorization.
Couchbase Engineering. Eleven minutes.
2024
↗Two Auth0 technical articles, distributed by Auth0 itself.
One featured in the Zero Index newsletter (May 2024); one shared from Auth0’s own LinkedIn.
Mar 2024
↗Using Amazon DynamoDB as a Custom Database Connection in Auth0.
Medium.
Jan 2024
↗Stream Auth0 Logs to Amazon CloudWatch using Amazon EventBridge.
Medium.
Mar 2023
↗Different AWS Services Used for Building Alexa Skills.
Medium.
Jan 2020
↗2019: Year in Review of an Alexa VUI Dev.
Medium. The annual-retrospective habit, already formed.
Jan 2020
↗Living Life on The Edge!
Medium. The EdgeWalk at the CN Tower, written up after my first trip abroad. Still the only thing I have published about being frightened.
May 2018
↗Which one’s better, Google Home or Alexa?
Medium. The first post.
Section 08 14 entries
Certifications
Undated
↗AWS Certified Security · Specialty
Undated
↗AWS Certified Machine Learning · Specialty
Undated
↗AWS Certified Solutions Architect · Associate
Nov 2022
↗AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Jan 2019
↗AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder · Specialty
The one I later taught for O’Reilly.
Undated
↗Okta Certified Professional
Undated
↗Auth0 Certified Developer
Dec 2019
↗Samsung Bixby Premier Developer · first class
Proof the voice years were not Alexa-specific.
2025
↗Linux Foundation speaker badges
Open Source Summit Korea · KubeCon India.
2019
↗Crio Summer of Doing
2017
↗NPTEL · Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms in Python
Undated
↗Udemy · Full JavaScript & ES6
Undated
↗Google Analytics for Beginners
2017
↗DigitalDeepak · Digital Marketing Basics
It all goes in.
Section 09 7 entries
Scholarships & selections
The pattern, in hindsight: people kept sending me places.
2022
↗AWS All Builders Welcome Grant
re:Invent, Las Vegas.
May 2022
↗CNCF Dan Kohn Scholarship
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Valencia.
2022
↗Aiven Uptime Scholarship
2018
↗Voice Summit Scholarship
Newark, New Jersey.
2018
↗Google India Developer Nanodegree Scholarship
One of 150 from tens of thousands; six months, Mobile Web Specialist.
2018
↗Google India Challenge Scholarship
Udacity.
Undated
↗Institute of Code Scholar
$500 toward a ten-day bootcamp in Bali, from 2,000+ applicants.
Section 10 15 entries
Community & volunteering
2024 – 25
↗Okta for Good · Global Leadership Council Champion.
Regional champion for social-impact work in India.
2021 – now
↗AWS Community Builder.
Five years and counting.
2025
↗Code Chautari.
NDC London’s speaker gift: a donation to a Nepali coding charity, made in my name. Kept here so I do not forget it.
2018 – 20
↗Alexa Community India · founder.
Started as Alexa Delhi; 3,200+ developers, 30+ workshops across India.
2019 – 20
↗Alexa Student Influencer · programme volunteer.
2019 – 20
↗Google Explore ML · facilitator.
2019 – 20
↗KWoC · mentor.
Kharagpur Open Source Society.
2017 – 18
↗Mozilla Club Captain.
2017 – 18
↗#include · Cluster Innovation Centre.
Internal Affairs Manager & Knowledge Evangelist of the CS society.
2017
↗United Nations Volunteers.
2024
↗Okta for Good · solar study lamps.
With the Okta for Good India team, assembled 200+ solar-powered study lamps for children as part of our new-office opening activities.
Added from the personal archive
Photographs from the day ↗2024
↗OzHarvest · cooking with Okta.
A team day in Australia, turning rescued ingredients into meals for people in need and keeping good food out of landfill.
Added from the personal archive
The team-day photograph ↗2024
↗Rise Against Hunger · meal packing.
Joined the Okta India team to pack 5,000+ meals with Rise Against Hunger, for people in orphanages and old-age homes.
Added from the personal archive
Photographs from the day ↗2023
↗Christmas at Jeevitha orphanage.
Celebrated Christmas early with the children and distributed warm clothes and food with Okta for Good.
Added from the personal archive
Photographs from the day ↗Aug 2023
↗My first Okta for Good day.
An afternoon at a school with colleagues and pupils, 8 August 2023.
Added from the personal archive
Photographs from the day ↗
Section 11 11 entries
Travel
Mostly solo, mostly with a backpack. A few trips I keep coming back to.
Aug 2026
↗Sri Lanka, the thirty-sixth country.
The closest one I had not been to, and I had already looked at it: in Oct 2023 I stood at Dhanushkodi, thirty kilometres of water away, three years before I crossed them. Pidurangala rather than Sigiriya Rock, elephants at Kaudulla, and the top of Little Adam’s Peak in the dark.
Feb 2026
↗Volcán Acatenango and Fuego, Guatemala.
Climbed Acatenango on a birthday trip in February 2026 and watched Fuego from the saddle. Acatenango is 3,976 m; Fuego erupts every twenty minutes, and I watched it do it all night from the saddle between them. One of the hardest things I have ever done.
2026
↗Guatemala · El Salvador.
Central America, overland.
Aug 2025
↗Underground caving, Budapest.
Squeezing through unlit limestone passages under a capital city, which is not what most people book Budapest for.
Feb 2025
↗Machu Picchu · Rainbow Mountain, Peru.
Climbed both in the same trip. Rainbow Mountain tops out above 5,000 m, and the altitude is the whole difficulty.
2025
↗Peru · Chile.
Two new countries in South America, on the trip built around Machu Picchu.
Jul 2024
↗Bruny Island, Tasmania.
A trip to see the Southern Lights. The cruise went south of Bruny Island, around 2,200 km from Antarctica, the furthest south I’ve been.
Feb 2024
↗Cenote Oxman, Yucatán.
Jumping into a freshwater sinkhole in the limestone of the Yucatán. No rope, no ladder out but the one you climbed in on.
Sep 2019
↗EdgeWalk, CN Tower, Toronto.
Where all of this started: my first trip abroad and my first solo one, built around a hackathon at Waterloo. I have vertigo bad enough that a thirteenth-floor balcony bothers me, and I paid $195 to walk hands-free around a ledge 116 storeys up. I asked how many people had backed out at the top. Sixty-one. I was not the sixty-second.
Jan 2025
↗London · York · Edinburgh · Ireland.
Three weeks that grew out of a one-hour talk. “UK and Ireland, you have my heart.”
Undated
↗Thirty-six countries, five continents.
India · Canada · Switzerland · Spain · Austria · Czechia · Germany · Netherlands · Belgium · France · Luxembourg · Italy · Nepal · UK · USA · Singapore · China · Mexico · Australia · Thailand · Ireland · Scotland · Japan · Peru · Chile · Malaysia · Poland · Slovenia · Hungary · Slovakia · Denmark · Sweden · Türkiye · Guatemala · El Salvador · Sri Lanka. And counting.
Section 12 1 entry
Education
2016 – 20
↗B.Tech, Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi.
A triple-major degree. All India Rank 27 in the entrance exam, with a score of 215.
Section 13 3 entries
Scores, memberships & languages
The record,
with a backstory.
For how these pieces fit together, there’s the story.
For what I work by, there are the boundaries.