AJ

Anton Joe Menezes

Founding team, Kalvium

Part of the founding team at Kalvium. Has spent 12+ years at the intersection of education and technology. He started at FACE Prep, was Product Architect at Chalkstreet, then led Prograd Junior, a kids' coding company. Engineer turned teacher, now in marketing. On the blog he writes the build-storyteller pieces: student profiles, project deep-dives, and the what-broke-and-what-we- learned stories from across the programme.

9 posts

B.Tech

Graded on being on time: the professional skills that go on a Kalvium transcript

Professional behaviour is graded at Kalvium from the start: being on time, meeting deadlines, communicating clearly, working in teams. Here is what goes on the transcript and why.

B.Tech

What Semester 3 at Kalvium actually involves: when work integration starts for real

Work-integrated learning starts from Semester 3. Here's what that shift means, the four tracks students choose from, and what changes when projects replace exercises.

B.Tech

B.Tech first year: the subjects that matter and the ones that don't

Most students expect Data Structures in Week 1. The Year 1 list at Kalvium is different. Here's which subjects shape engineers and why the ones they fixate on show up later.

For Parents

Independence 101: the adulthood skills no syllabus grades, and whose job they are

Money, time, conflict, asking for help. The skills that decide whether a capable student becomes a capable adult, and no exam ever grades one of them. Here's whose job they are.

B.Tech

A normal week at Kalvium: what week 4 of Year 1 actually looks like

Six days. Eight hours a day. By week 4, the schedule isn't the shock it was on day one. Here's what a normal week in Year 1 at Kalvium actually looks like.

B.Tech

What it's like to interview for a job from Kalvium (and what companies look for in students who get the call)

From DOJO belt tests to squad mock rounds: how Kalvium students prepare for job interviews, what companies actually evaluate, and what Batch 2026 placement outcomes look like.

B.Tech

Three students, one first week at Kalvium: the shift you can't see from a brochure

What actually changes between day one and day seven of B.Tech CSE Year 1 at Kalvium. Chirag, Navaneeth, and Praduman walked in on the same Monday. None walked out the same person.

Careers

Five rejections, one wake-up call: Nahda's first placement cycle at Kalvium

Nahda is nineteen, in Year 2 of Kalvium's B.Tech CSE programme. Five companies have said no this cycle. She's just learned the thing engineering education quietly forgets to teach.

B.Tech

How a Self-Taught Coder Became an SDE Intern at Morgan Stanley: Yagna's Kalvium Story

Yagna taught himself Python at 14 and wrote a book a state university adopted. He then joined Kalvium's B.Tech CSE programme to learn what books cannot teach.