// Speaking & Mentorship

Giving back to the
rooms that shaped me.

Everything I know about cloud infrastructure, building products, and navigating a tech career came from people who took the time to share what they had learned. I try to do the same — in classrooms, online, and at community events.

I speak on cloud engineering, DevOps practices, data science foundations, and what it actually looks like to go from idea to production as a small team. No slides full of buzzwords — real systems, real mistakes, real lessons.

10+
public appearances
500+
students reached
5
types of engagement
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// all appearances

Where I have spoken

6 appearances
From zero to production: building cloud-native apps on a budget
university lecture

From zero to production: building cloud-native apps on a budget

Delhi Technological UniversitySept 2024120 attendees

A guest lecture for final-year CS students on practical cloud architecture — covering how to design, deploy, and operate a production system without enterprise budgets. Covered AWS, Docker, and real incident stories from startup life.

AWSDockercloudstartup
Career paths in tech: from developer to CTO
college mentorship

Career paths in tech: from developer to CTO

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityJul 202460 attendees

A mentorship session with pre-final-year students on navigating a tech career — covering how to pick your first role, how to grow fast, and what the path from individual contributor to technical leadership actually looks like.

careerleadershipstartupmentorship
Hands-on DevOps: CI/CD from scratch in 3 hours
workshop

Hands-on DevOps: CI/CD from scratch in 3 hours

GDG DelhiApr 202445 attendees

A practical workshop where participants built a full CI/CD pipeline from scratch — GitHub Actions, Docker, EC2 deployment, and zero-downtime rolling restarts. Everyone left with a working pipeline on their own project.

DevOpsCI/CDDockerGitHub Actions
Data science without a GPU: ML in production on cheap hardware
online / webinar

Data science without a GPU: ML in production on cheap hardware

Online — LinkedIn LiveFeb 2024310 attendees

A live session on running useful ML workloads without expensive GPU infrastructure. Covered model quantisation, batched inference, and the architecture decisions that let you serve ML predictions on a ₹500/month server.

MLdata scienceinferenceoptimisation
The real cost of your AWS bill — and how to cut it
tech meetup

The real cost of your AWS bill — and how to cut it

AWS Community Day IndiaNov 202390 attendees

A talk at the AWS Community Day sharing specific cost optimisation patterns from real startup audits — over-provisioned instances, forgotten environments, and the five-minute fixes that collectively save thousands per month.

AWScost optimisationcloud audit
Building your first product: what college projects don't teach you
college mentorship

Building your first product: what college projects don't teach you

NSUT — Netaji Subhas University of TechnologyAug 202380 attendees

An honest session on the gap between academic projects and production software — focusing on database design, API security, deployment basics, and how to think about user feedback when you actually have users.

productengineeringstartupstudents
// what people say

From students and attendees

"

Ketan's session was the first time someone explained cloud costs in a way that made complete sense to me as a student. He showed us real dashboards, real numbers, real mistakes. It was not a talk — it was a masterclass.

Priya Sharma
Final year, B.Tech CS · Delhi Technological University
From zero to production — Sep 2024
"

The CI/CD workshop was exactly what I needed. I had been putting off learning DevOps for months because everything online felt overwhelming. Three hours with Ketan and I had a working pipeline on my own project. That is rare.

Arjun Mehta
Software developer · GDG Delhi Workshop
Hands-on DevOps Workshop — Apr 2024
"

What I appreciated most was the honesty. He talked about what went wrong at his startup, not just what went right. That is the kind of mentorship that actually changes how you think about your career.

Sneha Gupta
Pre-final year, MCA · NSUT
Building your first product — Aug 2023
"

The LinkedIn Live session on ML without a GPU was a game changer. I had been told I needed expensive hardware to do anything serious in ML. Ketan proved that wrong in 90 minutes with working examples.

Rahul Verma
Data science enthusiast · Online attendee
Data science without a GPU — Feb 2024
// what I speak about

Topics

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Cloud infrastructure for startups

AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean — practical architecture decisions for teams that cannot afford to get it wrong twice.

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DevOps from scratch

CI/CD pipelines, Docker, zero-downtime deployments, and monitoring. Hands-on or lecture format — both work well.

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Data science without the hype

Real ML in production — model selection, inference optimisation, and the infrastructure decisions most tutorials skip.

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From developer to CTO

What the jump from writing code to leading a technical team actually looks like — for students thinking about their career trajectory.

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Building a startup from zero

The technical and non-technical reality of zero-to-one product development at a bootstrap startup. What works, what does not.

// invite me to your event

Want me to speak at your college or event?

I am open to guest lectures, workshops, mentorship sessions, and meetup talks. Most sessions for students and community events are free. Drop me a message and I will get back within 48 hours.