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Deepak Venugopal

Co-founder, Kalvium

One of the four co-founders of Kalvium. Has spent his career thinking about how engineering judgement is built, what curriculum design, mentorship, and assessment have to do for a four-year programme to actually produce engineers who can ship. Detailed bio pending.

3 posts

B.Tech

Is B.Tech Worth It in 2026? The Honest Answer Is 'It Depends', Here's How to Tell

A first-principles look at whether B.Tech is still worth four years and the fees in 2026. Three variables decide the answer, and none of them are the college name.

B.Tech

What separates an engineer who can build from one who can only explain?

Most engineering graduates fail the transition, not the studying. Two kinds of knowledge, why we keep confusing them, and what changes when the four-year sequence stops deferring the building.

B.Tech

You don't learn to cook from a cookbook. Engineering education forgets this.

The Colonel's recipe is eleven herbs and spices. Everyone knows the list. Almost nobody can fry the chicken. That's the gap between most engineering syllabuses and what an engineer actually does.