TEDxCMRIT Hyderabad · July 2026
“The most important alarm I ever answered made no sound.”
Talk video coming soon — recorded at TEDxCMRIT Hyderabad, July 2026.
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Reliability, human judgment, and the alarms that make no sound. The TEDx talk, expanded for engineering audiences: why the failures that end companies are the ones nobody was watching for — in the machines, and in the room.
18–45 min keynote · also available as a half-day workshop
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Redundancy thinking for leadership teams. You have a spare for every server — who is the spare for your one engineer who catches everything? Mapping single points of judgment before they page you.
18–45 min keynote · leadership offsites and board sessions
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Emotional safety as an engineering discipline. Human hesitation is data: how blameless reporting actually produces reports, and how to hear the concern your team has stopped raising — before it becomes the incident review.
Half-day or full-day workshop · also as a 30-min keynote
“Human hesitation is data.”
“A hero isn’t a strategy. A hero is a bug report.”
“You don’t have five engineers. You have one engineer, five times.”
A speaker one-pager
Bio, talk abstracts, headshot, and AV requirements in one PDF. One-pager available on request while the PDF is being finalized — ask here.
Tech-checked slides
Slides tested on your setup before the day. No fonts missing, no adapters hunted for at 8:55am.
A clean audio experience
I run my own mic check, arrive early, and treat your run-of-show like an SLA — reliability is the product, including on stage.
Booking for conferences, offsites, and engineering all-hands.
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