The long way to Kalvium

I was born on 18 June 2007 in Hyderabad. That is the cleanest line in this story. Everything after it moved around quite a bit.

Until class three, I was at Meridian School in Hyderabad. Then there was Chennai, where I was enrolled at Don Bosco for a short period that mostly existed between a move and a summer holiday. I never really got the chance to become a student there. After Chennai came Kolkata and Salt Lake Point School. Because I was young for class three, I was moved back to class two. At the time it felt like being sent backwards. Looking back, it was one of the first reminders that progress is not always a straight line.

Class three took me to Gujarat and DAV School. I still have one strange memory from that year: a 98 in Gujarati, even though I remember almost none of the language now. It is a funny mark to carry around. It says something happened, but it does not explain what.

Learning through movement

Classes four and five were in Alwar at Alwar Public School. I enjoyed being there. Then came Bikaner and Delhi Public School for class six. That was where computers and STEM robotics stopped being distant subjects and became something I wanted to spend time with.

A computer teacher and a STEM teacher made a difference. They gave the subjects a physical shape. Technology was not only something to read about or use when a worksheet told me to. It could be assembled, tested, broken and tried again. Robotics made the feedback loop visible. If something did not work, the machine did not care about the explanation. It simply showed you where the system was wrong.

In the middle of class six, I moved back to Hyderabad and finished the year at Silver Oaks School. Class seven took me to Unicent School, where I stayed through class ten and completed my schooling.

The constant moves were not always easy. They made friendships temporary and beginnings familiar. Every new school had a different rhythm, set of rules and way of deciding where you fit. I learned to watch first, understand the room and then find a way to participate. I did not know it then, but that habit became useful later in design and product work.

The uncertain part

For class eleven, I joined a pre-university coaching centre called Ignite because it was close and seemed like the practical choice. It was not a good experience. I changed to Sri Aadya P.U. for class twelve and completed school there.

After that, I spent four months at home researching what to do next. It was not a cinematic gap year. It was a period of uncertainty, comparison and too many open tabs. I was trying to understand which path would let me stay close to technology without reducing my life to exam scores or a job title.

That search eventually led me to Kalvium in Bangalore, where I am now in the second year of a BTech in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Financial Technology.

Why Kalvium fits the current chapter

Kalvium is not the beginning of my interest in technology. That started earlier, with computers and robotics in Bikaner. It is the place where that interest is being given more structure.

I am learning to move between technical systems, product decisions and the realities of building something that another person might use. That is why my work does not stay inside one category. I move between Kaisei, Project JARVIS, financial interfaces, websites, photography and machines. They are different subjects, but they all ask a similar question: how does this thing work, and how could it work better for the person on the other side?

The transition from school to Kalvium has not made the path suddenly clear. It has made the uncertainty more useful. I have better tools now for testing an idea, documenting what happened and changing direction without treating the change as failure.

I am still figuring out what I want to become. For now, I am more interested in becoming someone who can notice a problem, stay with it long enough to understand it, and make a version that helps move the conversation forward.