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

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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 ...

Using VSCode and plantUML together to create UML diagrams and process flow diagrams

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 Creating UML diagrams like sequence diagrams, class diagrams, use case diagrams etc are a daily activity a developer does.

In this blog, I am going to share with you on "How to use Visual Studio Code (VSCode)" along with plantuml extension to create UML diagrams.

Here are the pre-requisites:

  1. Download and install VSCode.
  2. Download and install extension PlantUML.
  3. Create a folder say create_flow_diagrams and create a directory src
  4. Create another directory flow_diagrams_generated
  5. Create a directory .vscode and add settings.json with the following configuration:





{
    "plantuml.commandArgs": [],
    "plantuml.diagramsRoot": "src",
    "plantuml.exportOutDir": "flow_diagrams_generated"
}

You can 

Simply press command + shift + P and select export diagrams.



 Yay! you would get the diagrams exported as png or svg in the flow_diagrams_generated folder.