Journey

Visa didn't come through for ValkeyConf Prague

Selected to speak at ValkeyConf Prague, but the visa didn't arrive in time, so slowing down on travel.

5 oct

Became a SpaceXAI ambassador

Picked up a SpaceXAI ambassador role, with a Grok bot meetup planned for Pune.

12 sep

At AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan

A photo from AGNTCon + MCPCon in Japan.

10 sep

Spoke at AGNTCon + MCPCon Japan

Talked about stateless MCP and the 2026 transport spec, on the second Japan trip in six months.

10 sep

At AGNTCon + MCPCon China in Shanghai

A day of meeting people in Shanghai before a talk on auditing the MCP supply chain.

6 sep

At PyCon Shanghai

A photo from PyCon Shanghai.

5 sep

Spoke at PyCon Shanghai on FlexAttention

Gave a talk on writing custom kernels with FlexAttention after landing at 12:30am and skipping sleep.

5 sep

Hosted Cafe Cursor Pune

Took over a bungalow cafe for a day of building, demos and talks, with no fixed agenda.

2 sep

August 2026 recap

Upcoming talks in Shanghai, Japan and Gujarat, a Cursor Ambassador role, and Cafe Cursor Pune.

20 aug

Cafe Cursor Pune passed 800 registrations

Over 800 sign-ups for Cafe Cursor Pune on 29 August, with registrations closing soon.

8 aug

Announced Cafe Cursor Pune

Coffee, Cursor credits and building together, organised with the Cursor team.

4 aug

CloudFluently crossed 7k users

Still 30-40k visits a month despite months of little attention, so planning to pick it back up.

14 jul

Spoke at AWS Community Day Bengaluru

Talked about self-orchestrating agents with A2A and MCP, and shared benchmark results on when they help.

13 jul

Benchmarking self-orchestrating agents

Built a harness comparing single, DAG, self-orchestrated and hybrid agent setups on tau-bench.

8 jul

At DevOpsDays Taipei

A photo from DevOpsDays Taipei.

26 jun

Attended PyCon Singapore

A day of talks on tokenizers, multi-agent systems, supply chain security and uv.

20 jun

Landed in Singapore

In Singapore for a while, starting with PyCon SG, and open to coffee chats and coworking.

18 jun

Wrapped Build Day: Agent Harness & Memory

A Build Club x Mem0 day in Pune where people built and demoed instead of sitting through talks.

14 jun

Build Day speaker lineup locked

Two live coding workshops and three research talks set for the Build Club x Mem0 day in Pune.

12 jun

Build Day in Pune with Sagar Utekar

A build-first event with workshops, a two-hour sprint, a bounty board and a demo hour.

12 jun

Speaking at DevOpsDays Taipei 2026

Back to Taiwan to talk about AI-driven SBOM and remediation, with a Singapore stop first.

11 jun

Moderated a panel at Cloud Native Day Pune

Moderated a panel with Preeti Wadhwani at the CNCF Pune event run with Vultr.

6 jun

Announced Build Day: Agent Harness & Memory

A full invite-only day in Pune on agent harnesses and memory with Build Club x Mem0, on 13 June.

2 jun

At AWS Summit Mumbai

Attended AWS Summit Mumbai and met people around the venue.

28 may

Cloud Native Pune meetup at Platform9

Four talks covering GPU partitioning with MIG, OpenEverest for databases on Kubernetes, and more.

23 may

Joined Mem0 as Member of Technical Staff

Left ZS to work on the memory layer for AI agents with Taranjeet Singh and Deshraj Yadav.

2 may

Spoke at DevOpsDays Tokyo

Gave a talk on the autonomous SOC and SBOM remediation, then spent time exploring Japan.

1 may

Proud of the PICT AWS club milestone

A short note on a milestone shared by the AWS Student Builder Group at PICT.

19 apr

AWS AI Launchpad by AWS User Group Pune

Pointed people to the AWS User Group Pune event and its speaker lineup, though I couldn't attend.

17 apr

A busy week of student community days

AWS Student Community Days in Pune and Sanjivani, a club launch, an OpenSSF talk, then Hong Kong.

10 apr

Speaking at DevOpsDays Tokyo 2026

Accepted to talk on the autonomous SOC after two weeks of major supply chain attacks.

31 mar

Speaking at student AWS events around Pune

Spoke at the AWS Cloud Club I2IT launch, then headed to Student Community Day Sanjivani.

28 mar

Became an AWS Community Builder

Selected in the AI Engineering category, about three years after starting out with AWS as a student.

3 mar

CFP opened for AWS Student Community Day Pune

Speaker submissions opened for the 4 April 2026 event in Hinjawadi, closing 15 March.

19 feb

Speaking at HashiTalks 2026

A session on Terraform Stacks and moving from infrastructure as code to infrastructure as lifecycle.

8 feb

100k Google impressions for CloudFluently

What worked in a three-month SEO experiment built on 150+ blogs written from scratch.

22 jan

Free Terraform Associate 004 prep on CloudFluently

Exam guide, 003 vs 004 comparison, study notes and practice sets for the new Terraform exam.

10 jan

My 2025, wrapped

A year of launching and growing CloudFluently, startup programs, talks, travel and community work.

28 dec

Dealing with copied CloudFluently content

Influencers were reposting my content as their own, so I started a CloudFluently ambassador program.

21 dec

Ran the Build Club x HPE security meetup

A full-house Cybersecurity + AI meetup in Pune covering data breaches, web security and zero trust.

6 dec

Cloud session at SKN College of Engineering

Taught cloud basics and hosted a website on AWS live for the SKN IEEE student branch.

5 dec

Shared a 5-hour SAA-C03 workshop

Promoted an exam-focused AWS Solutions Architect workshop led by AWS architects, with a discount code.

27 nov

Practice exams for every AWS associate cert

CloudFluently now has free practice sets for all AWS foundational and associate certifications.

22 nov

Announced Build Club x HPE security meetup

A half-day Cybersecurity + AI meetup at HPE Kharadi set for 6 December.

19 nov

CNCG Pune meetup at Red Hat

Talks on KServe, Docker agents, KAgents and the Feast feature store.

16 nov

External examiner at AISSMS IOIT

Six months after my own final-year project, I was evaluating other students' projects.

14 nov

Wrote 100 blogs in 10 days

Nearly all CloudFluently traffic came from LinkedIn, so I started writing for search.

12 nov

Added a blog to CloudFluently

A blog section for guides and exam tips, aimed at getting CloudFluently found on Google.

22 oct

Notes on growing a LinkedIn profile

What I learned getting 350k+ impressions as a small account posting about building in public.

18 oct

Launched Build on CloudFluently

A new section with a project gallery where people can browse and submit hands-on cloud projects.

14 oct

Practice exams for 10 cloud certifications

A roundup of free AWS, Azure and Google Cloud practice sets now on CloudFluently.

12 oct

CloudFluently accepted into AWS Activate

Got $1,000 in AWS credits and wrote up how to apply.

8 oct

CloudFluently joined Google for Startups Cloud

Accepted into the Google for Startups Cloud Program with $2,000 in GCP credits.

5 oct

Google Cloud practice exams on CloudFluently

Free practice sets for Cloud Digital Leader, Generative AI Leader and Associate Cloud Engineer.

4 oct

PICT AWS club passed 3.3k members

The AWS Student Builder Group at PICT reached 3.3k+ members in under a year and a half.

30 sep

First international talk at AWS Community Day Taiwan

Talked about scaling RAG on AWS in Taipei, right around turning 22.

25 sep

CloudFluently hit 100k visitors, then paused servers

Three months in, costs outgrew a solo budget, so I paused servers and started looking for partners.

24 sep

Shared ZS Tech Innovation Lab openings

Passed on engineering roles at ZS in Bangalore and Pune for anyone wanting a referral.

23 sep

At AWS Community Day Taiwan

A photo from AWS Community Day Taiwan.

21 sep

Talk accepted at AWS Community Day Taiwan

My first in-person international talk, on scaling RAG on AWS, followed by a trip to Thailand.

17 sep

EC2 to Kubernetes workshop at AISSMS IOIT

A hands-on workshop going from EC2 and load balancers to Docker and a Kubernetes cluster.

16 sep

First Build Club meetup in Pune

Ran the first AI Builders Meetup on my birthday, including a workshop on building an AI agent.

14 sep

Build Club Pune meetup at Technogise tomorrow

Final reminder for the first Build Club meetup, with under ten seats left.

13 sep

Announced the first Build Club Pune meetup

Hands-on AI workshops and lightning talks set for 14 September at Technogise, Viman Nagar.

11 sep

Azure notes and practice exams on CloudFluently

Free study notes and practice sets for AZ-900, AI-900 and DP-900 in one place.

8 sep

Released free Azure study notes

Study notes for AZ-900, AI-900 and DP-900, structured around the official exam guides.

7 sep

Build Club Pune call for speakers

Opened the stage to anyone using AI in an interesting way, not just software engineers.

5 sep

Became Build Club's Pune city lead

Started a Pune chapter of the global AI builder community with Vedant Dwivedi.

3 sep

A learner passed AZ-900 with CloudFluently

A message from someone who passed using CloudFluently meant more than any traffic number.

30 aug

Joined ZS as a Solutions Associate

Started in the Technology Services team at ZS.

26 aug

Spoke at AWS Global Community Gatherings

An online talk on GenAI with serverless and my personal AWS builder workflow.

25 aug

How CloudFluently caches 97% of API calls

A CDN-first setup serving 1M+ monthly requests mostly from cache, and how it was built.

24 aug

Why exam-specific AWS notes matter

General tutorials don't match cert exams, so CloudFluently notes follow the exam domains.

19 aug

CloudFluently at two months

50k visitors and 2k users from 113 countries, enough to blow through Vercel's free tier.

17 aug

Released free Azure practice exams

Practice sets for AZ-900, AI-900 and DP-900 on CloudFluently, following the official guides.

14 aug

Released free AWS study notes

Study notes for four AWS certifications to go with the earlier practice exams.

12 aug

Guest at PICT club AI/ML event

Invited back to the club I founded and watched the juniors run the whole event.

28 jul

Released free AWS practice exams

Practice sets for Cloud Practitioner and three AWS associate certifications on CloudFluently.

23 jul

Grafana x Kubernetes Pune meetup at Intangles

Back at a meetup after a few months, with talks on Mimir, AI for Kubernetes and observability.

6 jul

CloudFluently's first 100 users

100 users and 5k+ visits in under a month after launch.

30 jun

Started building InfraPilot

An AI tool that turns a prompt into Terraform, an explanation and an architecture diagram.

29 jun

Added a leaderboard to CloudFluently

Lessons now earn points and achievements, tracked on profiles and a public leaderboard.

27 jun

AWS Cloud Practitioner notes on CloudFluently

Pointed Cloud Practitioner candidates to the free study notes.

23 jun

CloudFluently's first 10 days

600+ visitors and 50+ signups from a single launch post, with interns joining soon.

16 jun

Cloud fundamentals notes on CloudFluently

Pointed beginners to the free cloud fundamentals study notes.

13 jun

Launched CloudFluently for free cloud learning

A free platform with courses, notes, practice exams and roadmaps for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

6 jun

Stepped down as AWS Cloud Captain at PICT

Handed the club to Mayuresh Muluk, the next Cloud Captain, to go build on my own.

18 may

AWS Cloud Captain applications closing

Encouraged students to apply to lead an AWS Cloud Club on their campus.

4 mar

Ran the AWS Cloud Learning Challenge

A week-long PICT club challenge with 500+ registrations; I took the AWS security session.

21 feb

Wrapped the PICT club recruitment drive

120+ interviews brought in 30+ team members and 60 project and research interns.

12 feb

Accepted into AWS New Voices

Joined a five-week AWS program on building and delivering technical talks.

7 feb

AWS re:Invent recap meetup in Pune

AWS User Group Pune went through re:Invent announcements and marked its 15k LinkedIn milestone.

14 jan

Speaking at AWS China User Group Geek Talk

An online talk on layered AWS security as part of a 12-hour talk marathon.

22 nov

Mentor for GirlScript Summer of Code Extended

Selected to mentor open source contributors in GSSoC Extended 2024, alongside Hacktoberfest.

1 oct

Ran the AWS Cloud Ideathon at PICT

Students pitched project ideas, with Jen Looper and Sambit Bhattarai as judges.

21 sep

Passed AWS AI Practitioner

Cleared the new certification and shared the resources I used to prepare.

28 aug

Ran an AWS Cloud Fundamentals bootcamp

A two-day PICT club bootcamp with 500+ registrations and five speakers.

18 aug

Selected as an AWS Cloud Captain

One of 87 students picked globally to start and lead an AWS Cloud Club.

8 mar

Spoke at JSLovers Pune

Presented on machine learning libraries in JavaScript with Sanika Kotgire at NonStop io.

8 feb

Content writer intern at Tech With Lucy

Went from learning cloud through Tech With Lucy videos to writing for the channel.

1 feb

Meetup at NonStop io

Attended a meetup hosted by NonStop io, introduced by Preeti Wadhwani.

6 nov

Anchored Cloud Native Day Pune 2023

Hosted the stage at Cloud Native Day Pune and met a lot of the local community.

31 oct

Attended AWS Community Day Pune 2023

A day of sessions and meeting people, including Sagar Utekar for the first time.

9 oct

Passed AZ-104, now Azure 3x certified

Cleared the Azure Administrator exam with notes on its case-study style questions.

24 sep

Wrote up my first AWS projects

Blogs on projects including a Rekognition face app, Jenkins CI/CD and an Amazon Lex chatbot.

3 aug

Passed AZ-900 and AI-900

Two Azure fundamentals certifications done, with AZ-104 next.

29 jun