I'm Lakshya Sivaramakrishnan

Technical Program Manager, Founder - Prayogshaala, Tech Evangelist, Diversity and Inclusion Advocate, TEDx Speaker

About me

I realise my four pillars of interest through these roles: Technical Program Manager, Tech Evangelist, Founder of Prayogshaala, Diversity and Inclusion Advocate

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion


Researched and built strategies for diversity, equity and inclusion for women in technology in India. Developed my network with various women in tech communities, D&I champions and organisations supporting women in tech in India. As Verna Meyers says, "Diversity is being invited to the party. Inclusion is being asked to dance."

Data Science and Machine Learning

Received the 'Women in AI Leadership' Award by Analytics India Magazine in 2020 and completed the 'GE Analytics Engineer Certification' in 2016. Interested in hackathon participation and various certifications in topics of interest. As W. Edwards Deming says, "Without data, you're just another person with an opinion."

Leadership



Recognised with the 'Lead Like A Girl 2020' fellowship. I have been managing projects, programs and people. My strength lies in adding some method to the madness and practicing empathetic leadership. A certified #IAmRemarkable facilitator. As Peter Drucker says, "Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things."

Community Building


Involved with various tech communities in India for over a decade now with about five years of experience in building, nurturing and scaling communities. I have received a lot from communities and am striving to find ways to pay it forward. As Helen Keller says, "Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much!".

Prayogshaala

Weekend online bootcamp to nurture young women in technology

Prayogshaala aims to provide tech and applied skills education for engineering college girls in India through a weekend online bootcamp to help them thrive in the technology industry.

Selected participants will have an opportunity to enhance their skills on leadership, communication, personal branding and technology.

For more queries, feel free to mail us at writetoprayogshaala@gmail.com.

Prayogshaala Testimonials

Attendees sharing their experiences and project reports as videos, blogs, articles etc.

Jaya Preethi

Prayogshaala Experiences
30 Sep. 2020

Vipula Vivek Sail

Prayogshaala Experiences
5 Oct. 2020

Arya Reddy

Prayogshaala Experiences
8 Oct. 2020

Aafreen

Prayogshaala Experiences
29 Oct. 2020




Talks

Resources from the talks I have presented

Bringing communities together with tech

A chat with Engati on communities and more
15 Jun, 2021

InspiHer: July Edition by ACM VIT

A chat with ACM VIT community sharing my journey
27 Jul, 2021

Human Centered AI at GHC 2021

Lightning talk at GHC 2021 on Human Centered AI
28 Sep, 2021

Voice Talks India - Voice for Marketers

A chat with Moneka from MMA on potential of Voice for Marketers
25 Feb, 2021

Sharing Shenomics Fellowship Experience

My experiences from the Shenomics Fellowship
10 Apr, 2021

Shenomics Fellowship Impact Project

A presentation on my Impact project - Prayogshaala
20 Dec, 2020

Fairness in Machine Learning

Understanding the biases in machine learning
19 Sep, 2020

Women and Communities

Talk at PyCon India 2020 - D&I Track
2 Oct, 2020

TEDx IIIT Bangalore Speaker

Leverage the power of communities
5 Sep, 2020

Appsheet by Google Cloud

No-code application development to develop applications at scale
08 Aug, 2020

Structuring a Great Technical Presentation

Best Practices on Structuring Technical Presentations
25 Jul, 2020

Women in AI Leadership Award

Recognition by Analytics India Magazine
4 Jul, 2020

Unconscious Bias Training

What, Why and How of Unconscious Bias
31 Jan, 2020

Data Science 101 Workshop

Titanic Survivors Dataset using Pandas
26 Jan, 2019

IWD Bangalore 2018 Summit

Closing remarks on "Building a New Horizon"
24 Mar, 2018

Conversational Experiences

Spoke at GHCI 2018 on building conversational experiences
15 Nov, 2018

Understanding Natural Language Processing

Introduced NLP concepts along with three use-cases
06 Oct, 2018

Introducing Women Techmakers Program

Speaking on how tech women in India can leverage the program
30 Jun, 2017

Introduction to ML and Tensorflow

Workshop at IEEE Women in Leadership Summit 2017, Goa
14 Jul, 2017

Design Sprint Workshop

Design Sprint using the "Booking a Cab on Android Wear" use-case
04 Aug, 2017

Journey with Technology

My Journey With Technology by Google Developers
06 Dec, 2014

225

TALKS/WORKSHOPS

6

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

14

COMMUNITY PRESENCE

7

AWARDS WON

Blog

A collection of articles I've written!

Experience

Courage. Resilience. Empathy.

My hope is to inspire one and all to exhibit courage, stay resilient and practice empathy in all that you do.

Experience

Forging a gender equal world

The article speaks about how creating a gender equal world involves us, our role models and allies.

Conference

International Women's Day Month in 2021

The post talks about my top five moments of the International Women's Day Month!

Experience

Getting to the bottom of my to-do list

This post talks about how I utilized my one week of break from work in doing things that I enjoy!

Experience

Women Techmakers India IWD Summit

A Google Keyword Blog on my thoughts on reorganizing an IWD Summit into a bigger online celebration.

Conference

Grace Hopper Conference 2019

My learnings from the largest women in technology conference in the world, GHC 2019.

Workshop

Machine Learning and Tensorflow

Resources from a workshop on Machine Learning and Tensorflow using the MNIST dataset.

Experience

India’s Women In Tech: 2017 Learnings

Taking up the role to manage the Women Techmakers program and the learning that came with it!