Culture Coach

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader

Narayana is culture coach and actively mentors several students, friends and colleagues He organised hackathons, mentored and upskilled participants

2021

Mentor

Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, July - Sep 2021

Mentored Jay, a student of Masters in Information Technology and Information Systems Management at Griffith UniversityI Mentoring involved 6 x 30-minute sessions consisting of goal setting, career development and progression, networking tips and tricks, resume and interview preparation guidance, internship/graduate programs and reflection.

Story telling Hackathon

IBM Internal lab, July 2021

Organized a lab level 3-day TED style story telling hackathon, where participants show demoes or tell a story creatively in 8 minutes to educate/inspire the audience. The event helped tone presentation skills of participants.

Group Mentoring

University of New South Wales, 18 June 2021

Along with a colleague participated in a one hour group mentoring session for four UNSW Business Society students who won the case competition around sustainability.

Mentoring on the move

Griffith University, 7 May 2021

Attended a mentoring on the move event, where he mentored 4 students from Griffith in a one-off session 7 - 9:30am where mentors walk along with mentees in the campus and have breakfast together.

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Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, Mar - May 2021

Mentored Kartick, a student from Griffith University. Mentoring involved 6 x 30-minute sessions consisting of goal setting, career development and progression, networking tips and tricks, resume and interview preparation guidance, internship/graduate programs and reflection.

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Robogals Monash Mentorship Program, Oct 2020 - Apr 2021

Mentored Ranuli, a second year mechatronics student from Monash University and other students through group mentoring sessions. Mentoring involved six 1 hour monthly sessions over a period of six months covering a wide range of career topics

Zero Trust Hackathon

IBM Internal lab, March 2021

Organized a lab level 3-day hackathon, where participants demonstrate use-cases around how adopting a Zero trust architecture/mindset in security products offers enhanced security. The event upskilled participants in principles of zero trust framework.

2020

CP4S Hackathon

IBM Internal lab, Dec 2020

Organized a lab level 3-day hackathon, where participant show federated search use case can be leveraged to proactively threat hunt and enrich SOC (Security Operations Centre) investigations The event upskilled participants in open standards such as STIX.

IBM Mentor

Digital Defence Hackathon, Nov 2020

Acted as IBM Mentor over the weekend of 21st and 22nd November for Digital Defence hackathon

Remarkable Mentor Nominee

Griffith University 23 Oct 2020

Received Griffith Industry Mentoring Remarkable Mentor Nominee award and was invited for Breakfast to celebrate the achievement with fellow mentor nominees. Narayana's nominee has nominated him for the award

Mentor

Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, July - Sep 2020

Mentored Sahil Singh, a student of Bachelor of multimedia with a major in entertainment and games programming at Griffith University. Mentoring involved multiple sessions consisting of goal setting, career development and progression, networking tips and tricks, resume and interview preparation guidance, answering questions from mentee.

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Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, July - Sep 2020

Mentored Kwan, a student pursuing Masters in security and networking from Griffith University. Mentoring involved an 1 hour session where he discussed resume preparation, goal setting, courses to complete and networking tips.

IBM Mentor

Call for Code University Edition, Apr, May and June 2020

Acted as IBM Mentor for virtual hackathon for call for code over the weekend for the university edition where students participate in hackathon on saturday and judging is done on sunday

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Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, May 2020

Along with a colleague conducted mock interviews for two students from Griffith University.

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Central Queensland University, Mar 2020

Mentored Khate, Scott and Tejitha from CQU on how to participate in call for code challenge, and facilitated brainstorming of ideas for the challenge.

2019

Mentoring on the move

Griffith University, Aug 2019

Attended a mentoring on the move event, where he mentored 2 students from Griffith in a one-off session 7 - 9:30am where mentors walk along with mentees in the campus and have breakfast together.

Know Your Industry

Griffith University, July 2019

Participated in the event and interacted with students on how to plan their career and expectations from the industry.

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Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, May - June 2019

Mentored Jing, a Phd. student in machine learning from Griffith University. He invited Jing to the lab to get exposure to work culture at IBM, took him for lunch with IBM colleagues, played the escape room chaallenge, a social club team along with IBMers and also helped refine his CV.

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Griffith Industry Mentoring Program, Mar - May 2019

Mentored Marco, a masters student from Griffith University.