On 8 April 2025, under TechVerse Enclave, I ran an AI Mentorship Session at VSICS alongside Raman Shukla and Saksham Gupta, on AI-powered software development for first-year engineers.
The map we walked through
Smarter requirements gathering, automated coding and testing, predictive analytics in deployment, and AI-driven maintenance and upgrades — the point wasn't any single tool, it was showing students that AI isn't a bolt-on feature of software development anymore, it's threaded through every stage of it.
Closing with proof, not theory
We ended the session with a walkthrough of our Changethon-winning project from IIT Roorkee — a real system built under real constraints, not a slide about what's theoretically possible.
What I'd tell any student who missed it
The best way to predict the future is to build it. If a session like this sounds useful for your department or club, the format travels — I run it for free at student communities.
Where this started
GenAI engineer and AI product builder with 2+ years shipping production-grade AI systems: RAG pipelines, fine-tuned LLMs, hybrid retrieval and multi-modal apps across vision, speech and OCR, architected end to end from ingestion to deployment. Leads engineering for SCULT INDIA's 14-member team, founded the 500+ member TechVerse Enclave community and has mentored 200+ students. Three hackathon first prizes: Changethon 2025 (IIT Roorkee), Product Genesis at Vividhotsava 2025 (CSJMU Kanpur) and BYTEBATTLE (MeetKats).
Open to GenAI roles, hackathon judging, mentorship sessions and guest talks at colleges. Email pranjulrathour41@gmail.com.
