If you are not currently studying at IIT Roorkee, this post is not for you.
Hi. My name is Abhishek Kandoi and I'm an alumnus of IIT Roorkee.
I'm doing a little experiment. I'm trying to reduce the friction that you juniors face while reaching out to your alumni. I want you guys to know that we(your alumni) would be glad to respond to your genuine doubts. This is something I wish had existed while I was in college. There is a lot of bad advice that accumulates over time - most of the good advice goes away with the passouts. Let's change this.
For this, I reached out to a couple of my close friends. Apparently they're all happy to help and think this is a good idea. Below is a brief description for each of them.
If you have a question you'd like to ask them, use this form.
If I find your question to be clear and concise, I'll ensure that it gets answered. Also since most advice given by the alumni is relevant to a wide junta, expect it to be made public. If you don't want your name to be published with the advice, mention so in the form itself.
Abhay Rana, aka nemo is a hacker. He is currently working as a developer at Razorpay. He's won countless hackathons (Yahoo! HackU!, Deloitte CCTC 2011 and 2014). He was a founding member of SDSLabs in college. Know more about him from twitter, his blog and watch out.
Ask him about: hacking, books, writing, user experience, web development, computer security and board/card games
Abhishek Kandoi(that's me), or known as just kandoi is a Software Engineer at InMobi. He is currently working in a team that processes billions of events in a day; name of the team is monetization team. He was the president of SDSLabs and a member of PAG in college. He is the creator of Backdoor. In his free time he enjoys music, reads books and writes poetry. Know more about him here and from twitter.
Ask him about: ideas, computer security, music, how to present and software development
Kshitij Bathla, or known as Doctor is a maths and logic genius. He is currently working at Goldman Sachs in the risk division. His team is market risk modelling. He's been to the ACM ICPC World finals 2016[1] and was a member of PAG in college. He enjoys watching cricket, football and tennis. He's a big fan of Roger Federer; no really. Also he knows how to "fucking convince" people.
Ask him about: competitive programming, maths, strategy, sports and betting
[1] http://wona.co.in/2016/05/acm-icpc-finals-2016
Aman Kedia, or more popularly known as Kedia is currently working at Google in Sydney, Australia. He's been to the ACM ICPC World finals twice in 2015[1] and 2016[2][3] and was a member of PAG in college. Kedia also enjoys playing cricket.
Ask him about: competitive programming, google, strategy, chess and maths
[1] He went along with Adury Surya Kiran and Praneeth Reddy under the team name 3spades
[2] http://wona.co.in/2016/05/acm-icpc-finals-2016
[3] His interview on codechef
Abhijeet Gaur, or known as just Gaur is a Software Engineer at Samsung, Bangalore. He is currently working in the team behind Samsung pay. He was the chairman of Watch Out!, President of SAC and a member of the Entrepreneurship Development Cell in college. Chances are you already know him. Know more about him here and on twitter.
Ask him about: time management, android, payments and life in general
Priyanshu Sheth is genius. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Google Mountain View; in the security and privacy team. He's thrice been to the regional round of ACM ICPC - with a best rank of 30. In college he was the president of PAG and a member of SDSLabs. He's the perfect all rounder and a born American.
Ask him about: competitive programming, google, politics, music, america and mumbai
Abhishek Das, or known as just Das is a Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Dhruv Batra. His research focuses on deep learning models and its applications in computer vision and natural language processing. He's won countless hackathons (Yahoo! HackU!, Microsoft Code.Fun.Do., Deloitte CCTC 2013 and 2014) and was twice selected for Google Summer of Code. In college he was a member of SDSLabs and Music Section. More about him at https://abhishekdas.com/about/ and on twitter
Ask him about: AI research and music
Chetty Arun, known as Chetty, is a self taught designer. He designs products at Razorpay. If you see anything visual related to Razorpay, he's probably had his head in it. In college he was the head of design at SDSLabs. He's also a sub-40 speedcuber. At present he's exploring motion design. You can see some of his work at https://dribbble.com/chettyarun
Ask him about: design, biotech, speed-cubing and fitness
Shivam Mangla is a Software Engineer working at Facebook in US. Before moving to US, he worked at Facebook London for a year. In college, he was the president of the Mobile Development Group[1], and a member of the groups SDSLabs and Watch Out.
Ask him about: facebook, virtual reality, computer science and android
Note: Do not share this with a lot of people. I'm doing this in my free time.