Aditya (Adi) Singhal — Your Best Career Move Might Be Down the Hall

One of the most common pieces of career advice is to look outward — new companies, new industries, new roles. But what if the best opportunity is already inside your organisation, just down the hall?

Aditya Singhal, an Applied Scientist at Amazon, has built his career by doing exactly that: recognising and acting on internal opportunities that others overlooked or underestimated. In this episode, he joins Adrian and Tim to talk about what that actually looks like in practice at a company the scale of Amazon.

Adi is candid about the challenges of internal mobility at large tech companies — the politics, the visibility problem, the risk of being typecast in your current role. He shares the specific moves he made to expand his scope, the conversations he had (and the ones he avoided), and the moments where he had to back himself when the outcome was uncertain.

The conversation also covers confidence: how technical professionals often undersell themselves internally, why that happens, and what Adi did to change his own relationship with self-promotion. His advice is practical and specific — not the generic 'believe in yourself' variety.

Aditya (Adi) Singhal

Applied Scientist, Amazon

Aditya Singhal is an Applied Scientist at Amazon, where he has built his career navigating the opportunities — and the complexity — of working inside one of the world's largest technology companies. Adi brings a practitioner's perspective on internal mobility, confidence-building, and the art of spotting the right opportunity at the right time, even when it's closer than you think.