A one-off talk is a fine start. A standing relationship with a handful of clubs — where the same coordinator emails you every semester — is where mentoring and speaking actually compounds.
How that relationship gets built
- Stay reachable between sessions; answer the odd follow-up question from a student who remembers your talk.
- Offer a standing lighter-touch option (a remote office hour, a quick review call) between the bigger annual sessions.
- Introduce the club to one other useful contact when you can — this kind of reciprocity is remembered.
Managing several such relationships without losing track
A simple log of which clubs, what was covered, and when you last spoke prevents repeating the same talk to the same audience and helps you tailor the next one.
See how I track which colleges I've spoken at.
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.
