Hyderabad, Telangana, India
I help students and early-career engineers break into top tech companies - and I've spent 7+ years proving it's possible, even against long odds. 50+ rejections โ Microsoft โ now helping 50,000+ students do the same. Today I lead AI innovation at Alta School of Technology, where we're rethinking how the next generation of engineers learn AI, ML, and systems thinking. Before Alta, I shipped infrastructure at Microsoft (Azure ARC for Private Clouds - VM customization, Cloud-Init, VMware Tools, multi-Sev2 incident resolution, multiple internal awards) and VMware. ๐ What I'm building โ Director of AI Innovation @ Alta School of Technology - designing AI-first curricula for the next million engineers โ Founder, InterviewCafe - the interview-prep platform built on the playbook that's placed students at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and beyond โ Mentor @ Scaler - DSA, system design, career strategy โ Author - The Art of Data Structures and Algorithms and The Art of Operating Systems โ Public speaker ยท global hackathon judge ๐ฐ Featured in Aaj Tak ยท ABP News ยท Economic Times ยท Humans of Bombay ยท JoshTalks and more... ๐ Reach 500K+ followers across LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, and Telegram - daily content on AI, DSA, system design, and the mindset behind cracking Big Tech. ๐ Background MCA, NIT Tiruchirappalli ยท 4th rank, BHU MCA Entrance ยท AWS, Teradata, VMware certified ๐ฉ Let's connect if you are: A student or engineer trying to break into Big Tech or AI roles A university, brand, or conference looking for a speaker, judge, or AI advisor A founder building in EdTech or AI DM me - or start with InterviewCafe.
As the Director of AI Innovation, I lead the strategic vision and implementation of artificial intelligence across the institution to prepare thousands+ students for the rapidly evolving tech landscape. My core focus is on bridging the gap between academic theory and industry-ready AI application. Key Initiatives: - LLM Research Lab: Leading the end-to-end setup of a state-of-the-art Large Language Model (LLM) lab, providing students with the infrastructure to build, fine-tune, and deploy advanced generative AI models. - Curriculum Transformation: Integrating AI into the core curriculum across departments, ensuring students develop hands-on expertise in prompt engineering, RAG frameworks, and AI ethics. - Project Mentorship: Overseeing student technical projects to ensure AI enablement, guiding them in building intelligent applications that solve real-world problems. - Industry Readiness: Developing specialized training tracks to make students "AI-first" in their approach, ensuring they graduate with the skills required by top-tier global tech firms. - Innovation Leadership: Driving a culture of experimentation and research, fostering a community of students who are not just consumers of AI, but creators of it.
- Your one-stop for non-stop learning - helping ambitious learners crack FAANG and top product companies. - Structured roadmaps for DSA, system design, frontend, backend & DevOps - step-by-step paths with milestones and practice. - Placement training - designed with Microsoft engineers: DSA, system design, resume, mock interviews & placement support. - Trained 50,000+ students across 50+ colleges in India through our campus technical training program. - AI mock interview - resume-based questions, voice answers, webcam proctoring & a readiness score with actionable feedback. - 1:1 mentorship from industry experts and an elite book library of trusted interview problem sets and technical books. - 500K+ learners community - join students and professionals building skills and landing top tech roles. - From campus to FAANG - roadmaps, placement training, AI practice & mentorship in one platform.
- Development of Azure Migrateโs Assessment and Business Case reporting engine , enabling customers to estimate cost savings and feasibility of migrating their servers and SQL resources to Azure. - Developed and maintained comprehensive E2E test suites covering multiple customer scenarios to ensure quality and reliability of new features.
As a dedicated Software Engineer at Microsoft, I contribute to the development and maintenance of Azure ARC for Private Clouds. ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ: โ Added various features in Azure ARC for Private Clouds, including: โ VM Customization Support โ Cloud-Init Support โ VMware Tools Install and Upgrade โ Support for Clusters, Datastores, Hosts, etc. โ Worked on various customer and internal issues, including critical Sev2 issues, ensuring timely resolution. โ Won multiple awards at Microsoft for delivering high-quality work.
Worked on Distributed Storage Systems vSAN (#1 HCI software) Read more about vSAN- https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2018/07/02/idc-leadership-hci/ - Making enhancements and added a couple of features in CLOM (Cluster level Object Manager) module, it manages the placement and migration of objects (i.e vmdk) and distribute component across the host in the cluster. - Involved in the development of the vSAN checker tool, it used to collect the metadata from the disks in vsan datastore. - Implement in-memory logging features in userspace demons process. - Worked on a couple of customers escalation and fixes customers and internal bugs. - Developed a checker tool that catches and generates a report of all the offensive/racial terminology uses in the user changeset at the time code reviews. This tool is being used by all the VMware developers. - Developed and make enhancement in a couple of debugging tools that help to triage bugs faster. Skill: C, Python, Distributed system, GDB tool, Data Structure & Algorithm.
- Enhancements in the Parallel Database extension module, it is a middle layer taking care of communications between OS and database application. - Worked on module taking care of monitoring and reporting errors in the system memory. - Worked on resolving the memory leaks in database processes using Valgrind tool. - Worked on enhancements of kernel module taking care of size reduction of core dumps being generated from various database processes. - Pick intel drivers source code from the Sourceforge and created the patch file and build the rpm for SuSe Linux. Drivers are e1000e, igb, i40evf, ixgbe, and ixgbevf. - Making enhancements in multiple Teradata tools. - Wrote scripts to automate the task using Python/Shell Scripts. - Wrote a script to make rpm package of a couple of kernel module. Skill: C, C++, Data Structure, Python, Shell Scripts
- Developed a website to automate testing in the distributed environment that has been using by Teradata internal teams. Skill: Java Spring, HTML/CSS/Bootstrap, Teradata Database.