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Let's talk technology, leadership, or the social sector

Pradeep reads everything that arrives, and replies to most of it. Email is the surest way through; LinkedIn works too. A line about what you're working on and where it's stuck is more useful than a formal introduction.

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Open to 1–2 new fractional engagementsUsually replies within two daysBengaluru, India (IST)

What people reach out about

Four kinds of conversation

Most email lands in one of these. Saying which one up front means a faster, more useful reply.

Fractional CTO work
Technology strategy, architecture, hiring, and roadmap for mission-driven organisations — senior engineering judgment without a full-time hire.

Good fit if you have funding and a mandate, but no senior technology voice in the room.

Subject line “Fractional CTO”

Mentoring, one-on-one and cohorts
Career and leadership mentoring for engineers, and mentoring circles for cohort programmes like ILSS and the ISDM Data Practice Network.

Good fit if you are someone looking to grow in your career and working out what the next step looks like.

Subject line “Mentoring”

Moving into the social sector
An honest conversation about the switch from corporate technology to the social sector — what changes, what does not, and what it costs.

Good fit if you are in corporate tech and curious what the move actually looks like from the inside.

Subject line “Social sector switch”

Judging, reviewing, speaking
Juries, cohort screening, and technology reviews for accelerators and showcases — recently for Project Tech4Dev, ISDM, and Vividha Trust.

Good fit if you are running a cohort, jury, or accelerator and need a technology reviewer.

Subject line “Speaking / judging”

Probably not a fit

Said plainly so nobody waits on a reply that isn't coming.

  • Full-time roles, and recruiter outreach for them.
  • Purely commercial CTO-for-hire work with no social sector angle.
  • Requests to promote a product, tool, or fundraise to my network.

Organisations I've worked with