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.

4 posts

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.

Anton Joe Menezes · 14 Jun · 7 min

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.

Anton Joe Menezes · 16 Jan · 8 min

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.

Anton Joe Menezes · 6 Jan · 5 min

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.

Anton Joe Menezes · 6 Jan · 4 min