My first Tedx Talk: From Pain to Purpose – My TEDx Journey

August 30, 2025 – A date etched in my life for more than one reason. Exactly 11 years ago , I got engaged. And on that very same date this year, I received a life-changing opportunity: my first TEDx talk , hosted at GGI under the inspiring theme “Chase the Impossible.” Standing on that red dot, I felt a mix of emotions — excitement , nervousness , and the quiet ache of loss , having lost my wife, whose memories remain deeply rooted in my heart. In my talk, I shared a story born in the midst of COVID-19 — a time when Ms. Renu and I were both navigating personal grief in different ways. It was during this difficult phase that Mr. Chaitanya brought us together — blending Renu’s deep nutritional expertise with my technical background . That collaboration gave birth to a vision: A platform that could reduce the time it takes to create personalized diets , enabling dieticians to focus more on care, empathy, and connection — and patients to avoid long queues and delays. What began in ...

Choosing the right Azure Service

Microsoft Azure has a blend of services.

Have you ever got questions like the below, when building a brand new application that is cloud-ready or migrating your workloads to Cloud?

  1. There are so many services, which service would be the best for you?
  2. or how should I choose the Azure Service for my new application?
  3. How should I decide whether to use Azure Functions or Azure App Service or Azure Kubernetes Service?
  4. Can I migrate my workloads as is to Azure? Should I create VM or use App Service?
  5. Can I host JAVA-based apps on Azure
  6. ... and so on
If you have similar questions in your mind and you want to decide on which service you should be using that fits your needs, I want to share that here is a wonderful infographic to help you make decisions. Here is the link

I have also given an overview of the infographic in a video here: