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Lead · Arcade Facilitator · 2022 — 2024

Built rooms where people shipped real things.

Two stints in community work — first as GDSC chapter Lead on campus, then 2× Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator with GDG Cloud Bangalore. Active member of both GDG Bangalore and GDG Cloud Bangalore. Different programs, same instinct: pick a thesis, gather the right people, make small bets in public, keep what compounds.

700+Members reached
30+Events shipped
9Talks delivered
2Cohorts led

01Context

Two programs. One muscle.

Before the brand work, I ran a campus GDSC chapter for a year, then moved into Bengaluru's professional Google Developer Groups — GDG Bangalore and GDG Cloud Bangalore — where I ran Google Cloud's Arcade cohorts twice. Same job in different clothes: programming a calendar of useful things, capturing what shipped, giving credit, and turning that into momentum.

02Approach

How I ran both.

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Weekly cadence

Same time, same place, every week. Reliability did most of the work — people built routines around the chapter and the cohort.

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Public artifacts

Every workshop ended with a thing people could point at. Visibility attracted the next wave of members and builders.

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Builders over attendees

Programming favored doing over watching. The room came to ship, not to sit through slides.

03Featured

Two stints. Two stories.

01 · GDSC

Chapter Lead, 2022–23

Took a campus chapter from a Discord logo to a 400+ member community with weekly hack jams, a speaker series, and a year-end demo day that turned three projects into job offers.

400+ members · 24 events · 60+ builds

02 · GDG Cloud Bangalore

Arcade Facilitator, 2×

Selected twice as a Google Cloud Arcade Facilitator with GDG Cloud Bangalore. Ran cohort workshops, weekly office hours, and 9 talks at GDG Bangalore + GDG Cloud Bangalore meetups across both cohorts.

2 cohorts · 300+ builders · 9 community talks

03 · What carried over

Same playbook, scaled.

Programming a community calendar is programming a content cadence. Same hypothesis-test-learn loop. The instinct I built in these rooms is the same one I bring to every brand bet today.

What I learned here showed up in every brand bet after

04Reflections

This was strategy in a hoodie.

Programming a calendar = programming content

Same hypothesis-test-learn loop. Same compounding effect when you stay consistent. Different distribution channel.

Credit is free, share it

Every workshop name-dropped the people who built things that week. Cheapest way to make a community feel like home.

05Artifacts

Artifacts.

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