Abhimanyu Times

Talks

I believe in community learning & hence enjoy speaking about engineering & career growth.
If you want to invite me to your event, drop me a message here.

Quark 2026, BITS Pilani

Conducted a hands-on workshop on Distributed Systems at the annual tech fest Quark 2026, BITS Pilani.

Voice controlled Accessibility Xbox hardware

Led a team of 6 to develop a voice controlled hardware solution to empower differently abled people for playing action games with ease.
This project won 1st prize at Microsoft’s Global Hackathon in Accessibility category.
Presented the entire product to Microsoft’s leaders.

Masai School

I was invited by Masai school to share my journey into tech with about 500+ students.
It was such a rewarding experience to be able to talk to these learners who are envisioning their careers in tech.

Quark, BITS Pilani

I was humbled to be invited as a guest speaker for BITS Pilani’s Techfest, Quark.
I talked about optimising for tech as a college student and discussed the nuances of cracking technical interviews.
You can catch the talk here

WikiToLearn, KDE Open source conference

I was called upon to present my Google Summer of Code project with KDE to WikiToLearn India Conference.
It was an incredible experience and I made a lot of new friends.

Career Talk, Oracle

Got an opportunity to talk about my experiences as a new hire at Oracle’s Server Tech division, Bangalore.
I shared my thoughts on what to expect from the software industry and how recent graduates can comfortably venture from campus to corporate.

PayPal’s Hackathon

While interning at PayPal, I developed a Raspberry Pi based smart assistant
I got an opportunity to finally present the prototype to PayPal India team presided by Vice President, Guru Bhat.

YouTube Tech videos

I love simplifying difficult concepts in computer science.
In my quest of making tech more intuitive, I have recorded a couple of YouTube videos.
Some of the interesting ones are on KMP Algorithm, Myth of 9-5 coding jobs and Domino’s data breach