How we got here
Graduation day, then straight into business
Most of my classmates went looking for jobs. I started a company. With a fresh degree and more confidence than capital, I set up a BPO and an IT training centre. The BPO paid the bills. The training centre taught me the thing I still care about most: the moment someone who walked in unsure walks out employable.
Learning by building
Training led to software. We built web applications, hosted them, and kept them running for clients who expected them to work at three in the morning. That work took me across the globe, from the US and Europe to the Middle East and Asia, working for large clients in industries that had little in common except that each was changing how it worked. I learnt IT, SAP, cybersecurity, and electronics and communications the way you only can from the inside: on projects with deadlines and real consequences.
Taking it to universities
About ten years ago we began partnering with universities to offer programs students could actually afford, without cutting corners on quality. It taught me that talent is spread evenly across India and access isn't. A student in a small town is every bit as capable as one in a metro, and usually has far less room for an expensive mistake.
Ups, downs, and every wave in between
It was never a straight line. There were good years and lean ones, contracts that changed everything and markets that changed overnight. I watched the internet boom settle, then cloud, mobile and digital transformation arrive one after another. Each time the pattern was the same: the technology arrived faster than the training did, and the people left behind were the ones who couldn't afford to catch up.
Why AiTeky
AI is that pattern again, only faster. The courses that teach it well often cost more than many people earn in months, and the cheap ones teach tools instead of judgement. AiTeky is my answer: live classes taught by people who build these systems at work, a real project every month, and fees set so that a college student, a graduate looking for a first job and a working professional can each find a program they can afford.
Every technology wave I've seen left people behind. The ones who caught up weren't smarter. They could afford to learn.
Founder, AiTeky