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05 — About

Show up.Then again.

I’m Manish, a full-stack developer in Sydney, finishing a Master of IT at Charles Darwin University. Off the keyboard: conferences, campus nights and city festivals, mostly with a team T-shirt on.

Events & community

Rooms I turned up to.

  1. The AWS Summit Sydney keynote stage with a giant screen reading “20 years of invisible engineering”.

    AWS Summit Sydney

    20 years of invisible engineering

    Keynotes on security, elasticity and cost, and a long afternoon in the builder sessions comparing notes on what I run on EC2 and RDS.

  2. Manish taking a selfie with a group of SXSW Sydney volunteers in front of a sponsor wall.

    SXSW Sydney 2025

    Tech, film and a lot of walking

    A week of talks and showcases across Darling Harbour, mostly chasing sessions on product and design.

  3. Manish with two attendees seated under the Microsoft logo at Microsoft Sydney.

    Women in Tech at Microsoft

    Showing up as an ally

    Panels and conversations at Microsoft Sydney on building inclusive teams, and plenty of ideas carried back to SISA.

  4. Around fifty students behind large white #CDU letters.

    End of Semester Party · SISA

    One room, one #CDU sign

    The night the proposal became a room: music, a buffet nobody felt excluded from, and a photo everyone wanted to be in.

  5. Manish and two volunteers in pink shirts and bucket hats in front of a bright Aboriginal art mural.

    Australia Day 2026

    Harbour, crowds, lanyard

    A long day on the water’s edge with a volunteer team, the kind of shift that trains you for Vivid.

Photography

Sydney, through a phone.

Festivals, conferences and campus nights, mostly from the volunteer side of the barrier.

Manish in a pink volunteer jacket on the Vivid promenade at night.
Vivid Sydney · 2026
A giant glowing AWS sign hanging over the expo floor.
AWS Summit · Sydney
Volunteers inside a glowing wire light tunnel.
Vivid · the light tunnel
Manish and two volunteers under a lemon-covered Ferragosto archway.
Ferragosto · Five Dock
The neon Vivid Sydney sign glowing purple and orange.
Vivid · the sign
The SISA committee with flower balloons.
End of Semester Party · the committee
Manish standing beside the Microsoft logo in a white lobby.
Microsoft Sydney
A keynote screen with handwritten words: Take pride in your work.
AWS Summit · the last slide
The City2Surf volunteer crew outside Bondi Pavilion.
City2Surf · volunteer crew · 2026
A pink SXSW Sydney banner on an empty purple-lit stage.
SXSW Sydney · the stage
The Vivid volunteer crew posed in rows at night.
Vivid · the whole crew
Students working on laptops around tables at a SISA co-working session.
SISA co-working session

Fitness

7 am shifts, then the gym.

Warehouse mornings and a training habit that keeps the rest of this site running.

Mirror selfie at the gym in a white T-shirt.
Mirror selfie after training.
Black and white photo flexing in a gym mirror.