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Birthday Parties at Desiya Online: Small Celebrations That Powered Our Startup Gurgaon Life Year 2007
Startup life in Gurgaon demanded relentless effort, long days, and even longer nights to build a real business. In that intense environment, office birthday parties became an essential part of our startup culture. These small celebrations offered moments of pause, connection, and shared happiness amid constant delivery pressure. At Desiya Online Travel, every team member’s…
My Village-Rooted Startup Story Year 2015: Passion, Purpose, and Clean Drinking Water
Kareli, Madhya Pradesh, Mohad, PeopleStrong, PeopleStrong HR Tech, startup, StartupEcosystem, Year2015The year 2015 remains one of the most energetic and defining phases of my professional and personal journey. My career at PeopleStrong, Gurgaon, was at its peak, leading engineering teams building next-generation HR Tech made in India. While corporate life flourished, my mind gravitated toward building something meaningful in my roots—Kareli Mohad village near Narsinghpur. The vision was simple…
A Night at Yo China: My First Office Celebration in Gurgaon’s Startup Culture Year 2006
I began my professional journey in Gurgaon in early 2006, a bustling city full of ambition and opportunity. Like many young professionals, I quickly discovered friendship through office colleagues who soon felt like extended family. Startup culture naturally builds close-knit teams, and my experience at Desiya reflected that beautiful reality. I joined Desiya as a…
Running AI models locally has become far more accessible thanks to tools like Ollama, which let you download, run, and experiment with language models directly on your machine — no API bills, no cloud dependency, and complete control of your data. Across 20+ years, I’ve led high-impact technology transformations—converting challenges into growth opportunities and positioning organisations…
Information overload is one of the biggest productivity challenges in modern work. Professionals deal daily with long PDFs, technical documents, research papers, meeting notes, and reports. Reading everything manually is slow, expensive, and error-prone. With Ollama, you can automate document summarization directly on your laptop — without sending sensitive data to the cloud. This tech concept,…
Running large language models locally with Ollama gives you control over privacy, cost, and performance. However, the real power of local AI does not come from the model alone. It comes from how you talk to the model. That skill is called prompt engineering. For more than 20 years, I’ve driven change through technology—building scalable solutions and…
Running large language models locally is no longer limited to researchers or cloud-native teams. With Ollama, anyone can install and run powerful AI models directly on their own machine—securely, privately, and without recurring API costs. This tech concept, walks beginners through system requirements, step-by-step installation on macOS, Linux, and Windows, common mistakes, and how to verify that Ollama works correctly.…
The development around artificial intelligence keeps accelerating — but the conversation is shifting. Instead of asking “How powerful is this AI?”, developers and companies are asking “Where does this AI run — and who controls it?” and That’s where Ollama enters the picture. Whether you’re a startup founder, AI enthusiast, developer, or technology leader, this tech concept is designed…
PDFs remain the backbone of digital documentation across enterprises, governments, startups, and research organizations. Invoices, contracts, reports, scanned archives, and regulatory filings still flow primarily as PDFs. As AI-driven automation and data pipelines mature, developers need precise, reliable, and secure tools to manipulate PDFs programmatically. Across my 20+ years tech experience, I’ve led high-impact technology transformations—converting challenges…
The rise of AI chatbots has transformed how businesses, developers, and individuals interact with technology. From answering questions to generating code, chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot are now essential tools. However, their effectiveness relies heavily on how you communicate with them—that skill is called prompt engineering. With 20+ years of experience, I partner with organizations to architect scalable technology…
Modern AI development moves fast, but GPU infrastructure rarely keeps up. Developers waste days configuring CUDA, fixing driver mismatches, and rebuilding environments. NVIDIA Brev changes this completely. It delivers instant, production-ready GPU workspaces that let you focus on building models instead of managing infrastructure. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s vision is clear: make accelerated computing and…
Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how creators think, design, and produce visual content. What once required large teams, long timelines, and expensive tools can now emerge from a rough sketch or a casually clicked photo. Modern generative AI (ChatGPT, Gork, Leonardo.ai ..etc) does not replace creativity; it amplifies it. Makers can now focus on ideas,…
Enterprises increasingly want AI systems that understand their internal language, policies, and documents, without exposing sensitive data to public cloud models. Traditional approaches like keyword search or basic RAG systems often fall short when consistency, reasoning, and domain understanding matter. Unsloth framework changes this equation: It enables teams to fine-tune state-of-the-art open-source large language models directly…
Memories of C16 Hall 5, NIT Rourkela: The Room That Shaped Me
Some places do not just host you; they quietly shape the person you eventually become. For me, NIT Rourkela holds some of the most defining and unforgettable memories of my life. Among them, Hall 5 played a vital role in shaping my thinking, friendships, and independence. We lived, learned, debated, innovated, and bonded there—24Ă—7, without pause. The Power of…
AI is no longer confined to centralized data centers. It now operates across a distributed continuum where data is created, processed, and acted upon in real time. Modern enterprises increasingly design their systems around a three-layer architecture: Edge → On-Prem → Cloud. This model allows organizations to balance latency, security, scalability, and cost while deploying AI…
Modern AI research no longer requires a million-dollar data center. A single consumer-grade NVIDIA RTX GPU, paired with a high-end CPU, can support serious experimentation across large language models, vision systems, speech pipelines, and multimodal AI. This shift has democratized applied AI research and accelerated innovation for startups, independent researchers, and small labs. For over…
Startup Team Culture at Its Best: A PeopleStrong Outing to Remember Year 2016
Startup culture has an untold truth: your organization becomes a small, close-knit family. You work hard, push limits daily, and celebrate together to stay motivated and connected. During my time at PeopleStrong, team outings played a vital role in building energy and trust. One such unforgettable experience took place in September 2016, at a resort on the outskirts…
Captured in Frames: A PeopleStrong Team Outing I’ll Always Remember Year 2016
This photo frame memoir captures a vivid chapter from my PeopleStrong startup journey, where work felt like family and memories were created beyond office walls. In September 2016, our team outing to an adventure resort near Gurgaon became a perfect reflection of startup culture—high energy, broken hierarchies, shared laughter, and pure bonding. Explore the Original Memoir: >>…
Editing large files on production servers is a reality every serious engineer eventually faces. Log files run into gigabytes. Configuration files stretch across thousands of lines. One wrong command can freeze your terminal—or worse, overload a live server. This is where the VI editor earns its reputation. For 20+ years, I’ve lived at the intersection of code…
In the Linux world, tools come and go, but a few remain timeless. The VI editor is one of them. Despite being over four decades old, VI continues to be a core skill for Linux server administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and software developers. Whether you manage on-prem servers, cloud VMs, containers, or embedded systems, knowing VI…
