2001
First computer: an Intel Pentium 1
My father bought it.
Code With Kolin2001 →15·10·2026
Suman
Kumar
AI & automation engineer who builds in public and teaches how.
- Last shipped
- MakeACalc10 Sept 2026
- GitHub this year
- 615 contributionslive, including private work
- Right now
- --:--:-- ISTBengaluru
Chapter 1 · First computer, then college
Origin
– 2016
2009
Pentium 4
My father bought it.
2012 – 2016
NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte
B.E., Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Nitte, Karkala taluk, Udupi district, Karnataka
Four years of engineering at NMAMIT — then an autonomous college affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University.
Most of what stuck came from building things: a quadcopter around a microcontroller and ESCs, a 4×4×4 RGB LED cube, and a pile of smaller projects.
2013
First laptop: HP Envy
In my second year of engineering.
2014
Core i3 (4th gen) desktop
21 December 2016
The camera goes on
First video: 21 December 2016. Prank videos, for about six months — then I stopped making them.
Chapter 2 · Paid work, and a camera on the side
First job
– 2019
C:\WORK> January 2017 – April 2019
CSS Corp
System Engineer
First job: system engineering, test automation and Python. CSS Corp was a digital technology and customer-experience services provider — it became Movate in 2022, after I left.
C:\VIDEO> 2017
Bike, road, camera
30+ places across India
The channel came back around riding — daily life and travel, and it has been running ever since. More than 30 places across India so far.
Chapter 3 · Engineering, and everything at once
Engineer
– 2023
DWG 009 · Machine
Acer Predator Helios 300 (Core i7, 8th gen)
Date10 April 2019ChapterEngineerRev2019DWG 010 · Role
HCLTech
Python Automation Engineer
L4/L7 protocol automation for Cisco Systems: SNMP features, traps and decryption tested on every new build, then automated — vWAAS and WAVE appliances.
Performance and load testing for TFO optimisation with IxLoad, plus reproducing customer defects from dumps.
DateMay 2019 – February 2021ChapterEngineerRev2019DWG 011 · Channel
Lockdown, live
12k followers
Gaming streams through the pandemic, up to 12,000 followers. I met a lot of creators that way, and some are still on my contact list.
Date2020ChapterEngineerRev2020DWG 012 · Life
Bought a house
Signed in 2021. Moved in on 30 June 2023.
Date2021 – 2023ChapterEngineerRev2021DWG 013 · Machine
Ryzen 5 3600 desktop
Date2021ChapterEngineerRev2021DWG 014 · Role
Ribbon Communications
R&D Testing Engineer II
R&D testing on Kubernetes and Python, at a company whose job is moving real-time voice and data safely across networks — session border controllers, voice core, IP optical transport.
DateFebruary 2021 – May 2023ChapterEngineerRev2021DWG 015 · Life
Married
DateNovember 2021ChapterEngineerRev2021
Chapter 4 · The classroom goes global
Teacher
– 2025
March 2023
Four offers
Head down on new skills, back on the market, out with offers from Nokia, Tejas, Arista and Juniper.
Milestone
May 2023 → now
Juniper Networks
Software Engineer 3
Python and computer networking, in the place where networking is the product. Hewlett Packard Enterprise completed its acquisition of Juniper two years in.
Role
August 2023 → now
topmate.io
Career Coach500+ mentored · top 0.1%
One-to-one career coaching, alongside the day job. Top 0.1% of coaches on the platform.
Role
2024
Desktop upgrade: Ryzen 5 5600X
Machine
2024
@codewithkolin
50K followers
The teaching account started in 2024. 50,000 followers as of September 2026.
Channel
2025
MacBook Pro M4
Machine
2 July 2025
HPE completes its acquisition of Juniper
Announced in January 2024, settled with the US Department of Justice on 28 June 2025, and closed on 2 July 2025.
Milestone
December 2025
Became a father
Life
900+
students taught since 2020
One dot for each of them.
Chapter 5 · One ship a week
Builder
→ now
- Milestone
2026
Networking, deeply
Two tracks this year: networking down to the protocol level for the day job, automation and AI for everything else.
- Milestone
2026
One a week
1 ship / week
An app, a SaaS, a web app or a tool — one shipped every week. Everything else in this chapter is the receipt.
- LaunchedLive
10 Sept 2026
CalculateEveryday
55 calculators that publish their own formula, source, and where they break — finance, health, math, conversion, and date-time. Its own standalone…
toolsPrivate repo · described by outcome · hover to read - LaunchedLive
10 Sept 2026
Code Beautifier
60 developer tools and 12 printable cheat sheets — JSON, SQL, HTML/CSS/JS formatters, encoders, hashing, OpenAPI/GraphQL codegen, Docker/K8s/GitHub…
toolsPrivate repo · described by outcome · hover to read - LaunchedLive
10 Sept 2026
MakeACalc
An AI-powered custom-calculator builder — describe the calculator you need, get a working, embeddable one back. Ships as its own product at…
appsPrivate repo · described by outcome · hover to read - Sealed
September 2026
One thing I'm not telling you yet
Opens 2036
There's one more thing. I'll tell you in 2036.
Sealed · Opens 2036 · 3,365 days to go · hover to read
Today · --:--:-- IST
You are here.
Everything above is how I got here. This is what's on the bench right now.
Current focus · updated 13 September 2026
- Building
- codewithkolin.com — the career story behind all this
- Just shipped
- CalculateEveryday, Code Beautifier and MakeACalc — all launched 10 September
- 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
- 615contributionslive, including private work
- Public repos
- 14live from GitHub
- YouTube · builds
- First video incoming306 subscribers as of Sep 2026