8 January 1992
08·01·199211·09·202612,665 days
Suman
Kumar
AI & automation engineer who builds in public and teaches how.
Chapter 1 · Where it starts
Origin
Chapter 2 · The screen lights up
Discovery
– 2014
C:\MACHINES> 2001
First computer: an Intel Pentium 1
My father bought it.
C:\MACHINES> 2009
Pentium 4
My father bought it.
C:\MACHINES> 2013
First laptop: HP Envy
In my second year of engineering.
C:\MACHINES> 2014
Core i3 (4th gen) desktop
Chapter 3 · Shipping for a living
Engineer
DWG 006 · Machine
Acer Predator Helios 300 (Core i7, 8th gen)
Date10 April 2019ChapterEngineerRev2019
Chapter 4 · The classroom years
Teacher
– 2024
15 Jan 2020
Started teaching on Graphy
Began teaching Python, APIs, Selenium, Django and Flask — since grown to 900+ students. The original proof of work, long before the GitHub history…
Taught· courses
2021
Ryzen 5 3600 desktop
Machine
23 May 2021
cowin-vaccine-india
A Python script to check available COVID vaccine slots by area during India's 2021 vaccine rollout — small, useful, real-world software written to…
Shipped· tools
02 Oct 2023
100 Days of Python
A code-snippet compilation from a 100-day Python learning sprint — the kind of daily-practice habit the build log itself is modeled on.
Wrote· writing
2024
Desktop upgrade: Ryzen 5 5600X
Machine
900+
students taught since 2020
One dot for each of them.
Chapter 5 · Building in the open
Builder
→ now
- Machine
2025
MacBook Pro M4
- ShippedLive
25 Feb 2025
Url_Shortener
A modern URL-shortening service built with Python and Flask. Transform long URLs into short, memorable links with just a click.
tools - ShippedLive
29 Sept 2025
smart_attendance
An automated attendance system — Python.
apps - ShippedLive
21 Dec 2025
lofi_video_automation
Creates long-form lofi video content with Python automation — end-to-end pipeline from audio to a finished uploadable video.
toolsPrivate repo · described by outcome - ShippedIn progress
25 Feb 2026
MoneyFirstCRM
A CRM build — TypeScript, with a parallel money1st-crm-nexus repo. Financial/sales tooling.
appsPrivate repo · described by outcome - ShippedIn progress
24 Mar 2026
moneyball
A Python project — private. Name suggests analytics/stats tooling.
appsPrivate repo · described by outcome - ShippedLive
27 Mar 2026
IntelliStudy
A study/learning tool — TypeScript.
apps - LaunchedLive
31 Mar 2026
TopSkilly
A skills / learning platform — TypeScript, with a companion Vercel deployment repo ( topskilly-vercel ).
apps - CommittedIn progress
08 Apr 2026
topskilly-main
The main branch of TopSkilly — private working copy alongside the public TopSkilly repo.
appsPrivate repo · described by outcome - ShippedLive
07 May 2026
tableau-mcp-server
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Tableau — TypeScript. Early into a niche that's about to get a lot more attention: give an AI assistant…
apps - ShippedLive
28 Jul 2026
classroom-pulse
An AI project to detect student behavior in a classroom setting — TypeScript. One of the clearest signals of the shift from "Python teacher" to…
apps - CommittedLive
24 Aug 2026
4K_Video_Maker
Python tooling for upscaling / assembling 4K video output — part of the video-automation line of work alongside lofi_video_automation and…
apps - ShippedIn progress
29 Aug 2026
QuickPrint
A printing/export utility — TypeScript. Internal-facing for now.
appsPrivate repo · described by outcome - ShippedIn progress
10 Sept 2026
calculateeveryday
A collection of everyday calculators — TypeScript. Prime candidate for the tools. subdomain: small, useful, SEO-friendly, and already built.
toolsPrivate repo · described by outcome - ShippedIn progress
10 Sept 2026
codebeautifier.app
A code formatting / beautifying web tool — TypeScript. Still private while it takes shape; the goal is a clean, fast, no-signup formatter that lives…
appsPrivate repo · described by outcome
Today · --:--:-- IST
You are here.
Everything above is the log so far. This is what's on the bench right now.
Current focus · updated 11 September 2026
- Building
- codewithkolin.com, this 1992 → Now site
- Shipping
- calculateeveryday and codebeautifier.app, getting ready to go public
- Teaching
- 900+ students at courses.codewithkolin.com
- Writing
- Daily build-in-public posts on X
- Filming
- The first long-form videos for YouTube
- Learning
- MCP servers and agentic workflows
- Machine
- MacBook Pro M4
- Students taught
- 900+since 2020
- GitHub this year
- Syncing from GitHub
- Public repos
- 24curated
- YouTube
- First video incoming306 subscribers as of Sep 2026