Ready Set Do

Here's the uncomfortable thing nobody at career services will tell you: "I use Claude every day" stopped being a resume line about six months ago. The people hiring at Amazon, Google, and the frontier AI labs already assume you do. So what actually gets you hired in 2026? I sat down with Surya Kari, a Senior Generative AI Data Scientist at Amazon, to find out. Surya works on Amazon&#...

How do you go from running tuberculosis programs in rural Bihar to studying at Oxford and eventually working with WHO Africa? There is no clean answer — and that is sort of the point. In this episode, I sit down with Dyuti Sen to talk about what a public health career actually looks like when you do not start as a doctor, do not have a linear plan, and refuse to pretend the journey was smooth. Dyu...

Twenty apps. Thirteen days. Some already making money. That's what Avi Pilcer actually shipped while most of us were still picking a domain name. And the wild part? He didn't do it alone. He built an autonomous system called System Zero that does the heavy lifting for him. If you've been told "AI is making it easier to build" but you still freeze at "what should I build,...

Picture this: it's 2023, ChatGPT just dropped, every Fortune 500 suddenly needs an "AI strategy," and the job postings want 5 years of experience in a technology that's barely 18 months old. How does anyone actually get hired in that mess? Sowmya Podila figured it out. She's now a Senior Data Scientist on Target's centralized Generative AI team — basically the internal st...

Hari Prasad Renganathan got rejected from the H1B lottery three times. Most people in that situation spiral. They scramble for a second master's, beg their company for an internal transfer, or start mentally preparing to go back home. Hari texted 10 YC startups, got callbacks from four of them, landed an offer as a Senior AI Engineer, and moved to London. The UK work visa took three weeks. No...

Two weeks into my first semester in the U.S., I remember sitting at my desk refreshing LinkedIn like it was a slot machine. Apply. Refresh. Apply. Refresh. Zero replies. At some point you start asking yourself the obvious question: is this just how it works here… or am I doing it wrong? This episode is the answer I wish I had back then. I sat down with Aryan Vaidya — a Purdue MEM (Master of Engine...

Two years ago, I was lying in an ER bed, scared enough to get brutally honest with myself. And the thing that bothered me most was not some giant life philosophy. It was embarrassingly specific. I had still not started the YouTube channel and podcast I had been talking about for way too long. That night became the reason Ready, Set, Do exists. Now, exactly two years after uploading the first episo...

Everyone's hyping autonomous AI agents. Your corporate IT department is quietly building a blacklist. That gap — between the hype and the reality inside enterprise walls — is exactly what this episode is about. Naveen Chatlapalli, a three-time UiPath MVP and seasoned .NET developer, has watched the automation industry reshape itself in real time. He's seen RPA go from a boardroom buzzword...

Most people grinding through a tough job market send 300 applications and wait. Deep Suchak bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco. No offer. No contacts. No couch lined up past the first week. Just a read on where the opportunities actually were — and a conviction that showing up in person would do what a perfectly formatted resume never could. In this episode of Ready Set Do, Deep walks me thr...

Here's the thing nobody tells you when you start a business from your laptop in Kolkata: the company setup is the easy part. It's the tax side that'll keep you up at night. (Ask me how I know.) In this episode, we unpack the entire Business Anywhere model — what it actually does, who it's for, and why so many location-independent entrepreneurs are using a US LLC as the backbone of...

Do you really need a massive following to make a massive impact (and income)? If you're an entrepreneur, coach, or creator, you've probably felt the pressure to go viral. You're told you need 10,000 followers, perfectly polished Instagram reels, and a big budget just to be taken seriously. But what if all that "vanity visibility" is actually distracting you from building a real business? Welcome t...

Beyond the Bot: Why Your AI Marketing is Failing (and the Journalist’s Fix) In the noise-saturated landscape of 2026, the barrier to entry for content has never been lower, but the barrier to trust has never been higher. Everyone has access to the same LLMs, the same prompts, and the same "perfect" prose. The result? A digital environment filled with "brain rot"—content that is...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of international students and tech workers face the same terrifying math: there are 85,000 H-1B seats and over 400,000 applications. The odds are not in your favor. But what if you didn’t have to play the lottery at all? In a recent episode of the Ready Set Do Podcast , we sat down with Harsh, an AI Architect who "speed-ran" his way from an international...

What happens when a Marvel writer loses $500,000 on his first tech deal? In this episode of Ready Set Do, I sit down with Victor—a legally blind, albino filmmaker and founder who is disrupting the AI space. We dive into the first few steps of his transition from Hollywood to tech, his unique philosophy on modular AI, and how he's building 'Magic Bookifier' to remove obstacles for neuro...

Is Beast Philanthropy a Scam? The Reality Behind the Viral Video When the world’s biggest YouTuber hands over a check, the internet asks one question: Is it real? Joining us on Ready Set Do is Shafkat Alam, the Joint Secretary of Tiljala Shed and the man who stood face-to-face with MrBeast’s team in the heart of Kolkata’s slums. What he reveals in this episode might dismantle everything you think...

How do you build a community of 600,000 people who want to be alone? In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Black , the founder of The Female Traveler Network , to reveal how she turned a simple travel blog into a global empire and a safe haven for half a million women. If you have ever felt the urge to travel solo but were stopped by the fear of loneliness or safety concerns, this conversation...

Everyone is obsessed with the viral videos of robots folding laundry. Almost no one is talking about the absolute nightmare of actually building the hardware. In this episode, we sit down with Ritwik, the supply chain lead at 1X Technologies —the company behind NEO , the humanoid robot currently going toe-to-toe with Tesla Optimus. If you’ve ever wondered what happens after the prototype works, th...

Episode Title: Why He Rejected the US for IIT Kharagpur: The AI Career Blueprint Description: Is the "American Dream" still the only path to success for Indian engineers? In a world where the standard advice is to "get a GRE score and leave," Aayush Sugandh did the unthinkable: he stayed. Despite having the profile to go abroad, he chose to double down on India, pursuing his MT...

If you think running a nonprofit fundraising event is just about booking a venue, finding a caterer, and collecting auction items, you’re in for a rude awakening. The landscape has shifted beneath our feet. The days of relying on the same 200 people in a ballroom with paper bid sheets are fading fast, and organizations that refuse to adapt are seeing their revenue plateau. In this episode, I sat d...

Laid Off on OPT? How He Stopped the Clock & Got Hired in 40 Days (The Blueprint) Description: Getting laid off is a punch to the gut. Getting laid off on an F1 Visa with the 90-day unemployment clock ticking? That is a full-blown emergency. If you are currently staring at a termination letter and wondering if you have to pack your bags, STOP. DO NOT PANIC. In this episode, we are tearing down...

Are you afraid to hit "post" on LinkedIn? Do you worry that your employer might judge you, or that you don't have anything valuable to say? In this episode, we sit down with two of the biggest Indian Study Abroad creators on LinkedIn : Sohan Sethi and Sai Kumar Bysani . These two haven't just built followers; they’ve built empires, careers, and life-changing opportunities solely...

Are you an NRI, student, or expat living in the USA who feels sluggish, bloated, or heavier despite "eating healthy"? You are not alone. Millions of Indians move abroad and immediately switch to a diet of salads, cold sandwiches, and protein bars, thinking they are making better choices. Yet, the "Freshman 15" turns into the "expat 20," and gut health issues skyrocket...

Most people take trips to relax. Beaches. Cocktails. Photos for Instagram. This conversation is not about that kind of trip. This is about the kind of travel that changes what you think a vacation is for. It is about showing up in a small community somewhere in the world and leaving it a little better than you found it. That idea sits at the center of GlobeAware, a nonprofit that builds one week v...

In this episode of Ready Set Do , my guest is Umang Chaudhary , a Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok and former Applied Scientist at Amazon . Umang’s story is one of momentum — a reminder that you don’t need decades of experience to reach the top tiers of tech. What matters more is the mindset: continuously learning, adapting fast, and being ready to leap when opportunity strikes. We dive deep in...

In this episode I talk with Hrohaan Malhotra, a Data Scientist at Wells Fargo who actually landed his role through a career fair. If that sounds lucky, it isn’t. Hrohaan rewired the usual career-fair playbook: he didn’t show up to collect business cards — he showed up to build one great, memorable interaction. That single idea changed everything. Here’s the distilled playbook we unpacked — practic...