Rajdeep Das

                    

Born		Rajdeep Das
		June 3, 1997
		Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Education		Heritage Institute of Technology (MCA)
		Netaji Subhash Engineering College(BCA)
Occupation		IT Professional
		Tech-Blogger
Member		AICTSD | NITTSD
Parents		Mr. Bikash Ranjan Das (Father)
		Mrs Rita Das (Mother)
Awards		Full list

Starting of blogging

In the same year, Rajdeep started his personal blog on WordPress.com, mostly on cyber-security, web technology and a little bit about trending tech-news. The blog started grabbing attention from the people of same blogging community on WordPress.com. Seeing his writings were getting huge responses, the next idea was inherited to start an official blog seperatedly from his personal blog. In February, 2018 he launched his first official blog with a brand name "TheTechLearner" on the WordPress subdomain.

TheTechLearner was initially focused on sharing cyber-news, trending technology updates but unfortunately it was not working on the ground as expected. Because of his same taste of technical contents had already made a position through his personal blog, so his officially 'branded' blog was not getting the same responses.

Turning point in blogging

Things were started changing just after a few months when he published a special series of blogs with the title "How to start a blog" which was intended to guide newbies who are equally interested to start their own blog. This series of blogs was included with not only the technical aspects of blogging but also covering the necessity to learn the importance of organic growth hack. After having a long way of sharing the series in threads across different social media handles frequently, finally it got its deserving outcome within 3 months and gained 1M+ views in all over.

The next thing was happened when he started answering to the questions regarding blogging tips and solutions asked by the aspirant bloggers on Quora.com. Quora was his first and the smartest way to promote TheTechLearner and its series of blogs by writing answers on the same niche he usually does on his series and then backliking his relevant blogs in each of those answers. He got 60K+ views in those 100+ question answers.

In between that he got in touch with several other third party ad & marketing camps and his blogs got more & more promotions & in 2019 he became the part of IndiBlogger: India's Biggest blog directly and the largest blogging community with most active bloggers in India. Rajdeep promoted both of his blogs (personal + TheTechLearner) on IndiBlogger & shared with other bloggers. Both of the blogs were ranked 72 and 54 respectively.

According to IndiBlogger's most demanded popular blog-directory statistics since 2019, Rajdeep was listed among Top 10 Cyber Security bloggers, Top 200 Education bloggers, Top 100 WordPress bloggers. In the same year, Rajdeep was in the list Top 44th technical content writers in Expert-voted category in GeeksforGeeks Technical Scripter event- A national level event and in that same event of 2020 he was among Top 100 in Hard-voted category.

In 2019, Rajdeep created another sub-blog (child-blog) named HackiTalki-WikiWeb while keeping TheTechLearner as parent blog on the WordPress subdomain.

HackiTalki-WikiWeb is totally focused on sharing cyber-tech news, cyber crime & cyber security awareness program.

Rajdeep also started a technews portal and tech-quiz portals in both of his blogs and it was apparently successful on social platforms. Since 2019, Rajdeep was not so able to frequently publish blogs due to his academic and career-pressure but he has made a strong presence of his blogs on social media platforms with massive response.

In 2021, Rajdeep created two open source forum on GitHub Organization profiles in the name of his blogs where any people can contribute open source projects or ideas which was considered to be a great movement for open source enthusiasts.

By the end of 2020, both of his blogs were profiled on Crunchbase public forum with popular choice blogs in India.

From 2019 to 2021 he consistently wrote many technical and digital marketing related articles, case studies including guest blogging, freelancing for writing industries, event based competitive writing & few research journals in the name of edutech industries. He has also published technical reports & presentations on both ResearchGate & ResearchID respectively.

As a speaker/host

In 2020 Rajdeep was chosen to be Internshala Student Leader and he was in the responsibility to host three consecutive virtual career guiding webinars as a speaker. All those webinars were successful with lots of responses. The virtual webinars were on:

1. "How to grab valid internships during pandemic 2020",
2. "How to get trained professionally with on-demand technical skills"
3. "Talk-Fest on technical and non-technical skill growth tips and tracks".

He was also the keynote speaker for GirlScript Foundation's most popularly held Open-Source Contribution Program Seminar (2021) and Coding Block & Coding Ninjas' session learning speaker (2020-2021). In the same year, he was a guest speaker at a Cyber Awareness virtual conference organized by MAKAUT engineering students in a private engineering College.

As an open source contributor and mentor

Since 2018, Rajdeep started contributing in open source project in several events, sponsored by different organizations. The most engaged one among all was GirlScript Foundation. After starting an open source contribution journey from there, Rajdeep has serially achieved lots of recognitions and award certificates in many Open Source contribution programs either as a direct contributor (in Team or as individual) or as a mentor or as a project admin or as a open source program supervisor. He has made a serially lined up list of 20+ successful open source contribution and mentorship programs including Script Foundation (Now Social) Winter of Code, GirlScript Summer of Code 2018-2022 (Total 5 times in all the roles over the 5 years including Contributor, Mentor, Supervisor, Project Admin and Team Lead), GirlScript Winter of Code, Social Summer of Code, Delhi Technological University IEEE Cross Winter of Code, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College Winter of Code, NIT Trichy Delta Force Winter of Code, DevIncept Winter of Code, Google Developer Student Club Netaji Subhash Engineering College Winter of Code, IIT Kharagpur Winter of Code, GeeksforGeeks Game of Source, Digital Ocean and Intel Corporation held Hacktoberfest, LetsGrowMore Summer of Code, DevScript Winter of Code, IIT Patna NJack Winter of Code, Hackclub SAL Open Source Program, Twowaits Hacktoberfest, AppWrite Hacktoberfest, RedWoodJS Open Source Contribution Program, CodXCrypt Open Source Contribution Program, Microsoft Student Technical Club Winter of Code 4.0 DA-IICT Open Source Contribution Program.

Moreover, he contributed to the organization projects of IIIT Kottayam, Google Developer Student Club RCC Institute of Technology, Fueler.io, CommunityPro club, BitProject, GitHub Education program via GitHub. He is also available on GitLab where he has contributed to few mini projects for student learning resources. Rajdeep was also selected in the GitHub Graduation Program 2021 and he has also achieved Major League Hacking Fellowship Open Source program on GitHub.

In 2022, Rajdeep started internship at Cognizant Technology Solutions in Oracle EAS domain during his post-graduation. From August 2022 onwards he is working at Cognizant as Full time EAS Oracle Applications Developer.

Awards & recognitions

Rajdeep has earned following awards and recognitions over the years:

1. Swami Vivekananda Talent Prize 2014 & 2016 respectively from West Bengal State Govt. for 10th & 12th standard board exam.
2. IndiBlogger.in listed 54th and 72nd ranked holder as a blogger on both personal and official blog respectively.
3. "Captain of the Month" Awarded including General, Silver, Bronze, Gold & Platinum- All the five special "Certificate of Achievements" from Internshala.
4. "Best Leader of the Year" Award 2020- The Highest rank of Award Certificate of ISP program from Internshala.
5. The Mystery Blogger Digital Award 2018 - WordPress Bloggers Community
6. The Sunshine Blogger Digital Award 2019 - - WordPress Bloggers Community
7. The Lybstar Digital Award 2020 - - WordPress Bloggers Community.
8. The BloggerBash Award 2021 - Nominated by WordPress Bloggers Community.
9. "30 days of Google Cloud" rewards for finishing both challenges in Cloud Engineering and Data Science/Machine Learning on GCP
10. "Google Cloud Career Readiness Program" Milestone 1 and Milestone 2 achiever and GCP schwags receiver.
11. IBM-z Master-The-MainFrame Hack individual contributor with global rank of 3436th and in Indian community 8th ranked in list.
12. "Google Cloud Learn to Earn Cloud Security" rewards for competing cloud security 3 tracks on GCP.
13. Microsoft Azure Developer League 'Red Flag Achiever' & Microsoft PyCON event perks 2021.
14. Qwiklabs (cloudskillboost) 50+ skill GCP badges achiever.
15. IBM accredited Cyber Security Specialized Digital Award badge.
16. Appwrite Hacktoberfest 2022 Holopin badge. Surfer Moby Dock (From Docker) Holopin badge earner.
17. CertiProf awarded Lifetime Learner Digital badge.
18. UNSCHOOL awarded "Community Champion" & UREAD's both "Youth Leader" & "Youth Influencer" Honour with Certificate of Excellence.
19. Microsoft's Virtual Technical Experience Program on Engineering: Undergraduate & Master's Asia Program & Microsoft Go-To-Market Program. Featured on HIT-K's official social handles.
20. Power blogger Award receiver from United Kingdom Power blogging association.
21. BlogAdda awarded Notable Newbie Blogger Award.
22. Council for Six Sigma Authority (CSSC) Association at United States of America accredited Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma White Belt recipient.
23. Anexus Europe accredited Lean Six Sigma White Belt professional and 6SigmaStudy accredited Six Sigma Yello Belt professional.
24. GreyCampus global accredited Six Sigma Black Belt professional.
25. PrepBytes awarded with "Star Performer of the Week" Award Certificate.
26. Hall of Fames recipient from Harvard University, Drexel University, Cambridge University for security disclosure program.
27. GeeksforGeeks, Lenovo hall of fame for (bug bounty)
28. University of Colorado IT scholarship recipient on cyber-security specializations.
29. SkillFront Lifetime Learning credit award badge.
30. Facebook Dev Circle, Kolkata | Won 'DEVENGER' Award 2020-2021 for active Technical Contribution as a Team lead in FDC community-branch.
31. Govt. of India recognized "Certificate of Dedication & Honour" award for leading "Safety Awareness Camp" against COVID-19 pandemic in India via AIIPPHS & CMSB.
32. Institution's Innovation Council (IIC, Govt. India) Appreciation Award Certificate on Govt. of India's special projects in association with K.S. RANGASAMY College of Technology, India.
33. National Sports & Physical Fitness Board (NSPFB, India) Fair Play Award Winner 2021 by Govt. of India.
34. LinuxWorld awarded Learner Success Head acknowledgement in contribution to the research-based project on Deep Learning.
35. The Sparks Foundation awarded 'The Gold Hand Award 2021'.
36. Ranked 44th (2019) & Top 100 (2020) respectively across India in GeeksforGeeks Technical Scripter Annual National Event for publishing two article on Dark Web Analytics & International Cyber Crimes (Voted for 'Expert' category) and another is on Google Cloud Computing Security Disaster Controlling using IAM (Voted for 'Hard' category).
37. LetsGrowMore's Golden Achievement Award Certificate of "Extraordinary Student Lead 2021".
38. Coding Club awarded Certificate of Achievement on "Leadership of the Month" award to drive Coding Club India Student campaign.
39. Coding Ninja's 'Achiever Pass', 'Gold Pass' & 'Platinum Pass' Ninja Entrepreneur Achiever 2021-22'.
40. 30+ Letters of Recommendations and in addition 10+ Letters of Appreciations, Letters of Acknowledgements for best performance records in different competitions, contribution-ranks and team leading in programs, trainings and internship curriculum.
41. Minecraft Hour of Code 2018 to 2022 consistent Certificate of Championship achiever.
42. GirlScript Foundation 10+ special recognitions lined up regarding 2018-2022 as a consistant open source contributors
43. RedWoodJS Perks on Open-source project contribution.
44. Cognizant's 2022 Azure Cloud challenge 4 tracks finisher with 100+ badges.
45. Microsoft recognized "Microsoft Innovative Educator 2021-2022" and "Microsoft Advanced Educator 2023". Got recognition as 'Microsoft Innovative Educator -> Microsoft Innovative Educator-Trainer->Microsoft Innovative Educator-Master Trainer-> Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert via Microsoft Educator Trainer Academy and Microsoft Learn Profile. Earned 300+ digital badges & 70+ digital trophies including 10+ Microsoft Azure Developer associate, Azure security, Microsoft Imagine cup & Power Platform challenge completion.

Personal Life

Rajdeep is a single child to his parents. He is fond of detective and science-friction stories, also a movie and music fervent too. Sherlock Holmes and Feluda are his favourite detective characters. Satyajit Ray is his favourite author. He is also fond of writing Bengali poetries and sometimes he is a hobbyist photographer too.

References

1. Rajdeep Das is listed among the Top Technology bloggers from India & Top Genius bloggers from India (indiblogger.in).
2. Crunchbase on Rajdeep Das.
3. Featured blog on Sunshinysasite.
4. Rajdeep Das on Crunchbase.
5. Became Internshala Face. Featured on Heritage Institute of Technology's official LinkedIn page & official Facebook page.
6. Microsoft Engineering & Marketing Asia VE Program: Rajdeep Das is featured on Heritage Institute of Technology's official Facebook page.
7. Goldman Sachs Virtual Experience Program Milestone achiever: Rajdeep Das is featured HIT-K's Facebook page.
8. CISCO achievement: Rajdeep Das is featured HIT-K's Facebook page.
9. Scrum Foundation Professional & Fortinet NSE Achievement: Rajdeep Das is featured on HIT-K's handle.

External Links

1. Rajdeep Das official website: https://rajspeaks.github.io
2. Rajdeep's developer portfolio: https://rajspeaks.github.io/developer-port
3. Rajdeep's personal blog: https://iamrajdeep.wordpress.com
4. TheTechLearner About: https://thetechlearner.wordpress.com/about
5. LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/itsrajdeepdas
6. Twitter: https://twitter.com/itsrajdeepdas
7. GitHub: https://github.com/Rajspeaks
8. Credly badges: Click to check here.
9. Facebook: https://facebook.com/rajdeep.developer
10. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itz__rajj