# 01log entry

Yantra — The IoT Club

Joining Yantra, REVA's IoT club, is what actually pulled me toward robotics — before that it was just an interest on paper. Being around people building embedded projects made it real, and I grew from Event Coordinator into Secretary, which meant I went from showing up to sessions to organizing them.

Event Coordinator Nov 2024 – Mar 2025Secretary Mar 2025 – Present

# 02log entry

Taking a Robot to Delhi

One of the highlights was traveling to Delhi with the team for a line-following robot competition. Building and tuning a bot that has to track a path entirely on its own is a different kind of pressure than a classroom project — a lot of the embedded-systems instincts I still rely on trace back to that trip.

# 03log entry

Teaching IoT, Building Projects

Somewhere along the way, running workshops and teaching juniors IoT became as much my job as building things myself. Walking people through sensors, microcontrollers, and their own first builds is where SANKETHA, PARAMETER, and the Smart Attendance System came from — built during this stretch, alongside people I was also teaching.

ESP32LoRaRaspberry PiOpenCV

# 04log entry

What's Next

That focus on building and teaching is what led to my first internship — AI/ML Intern at CropNow. What started as running club sessions turned into leading actual product work.

# 01log entry

Walking In

I came back from the Delhi trip and walked straight into third year — the first year my college allowed internships. CropNow was the first company I approached: an agritech startup rewiring how India farms, folding AI, IoT, and robotics straight into the field. I got in as an AI/ML intern and was put on Nest, a sensor device for farms.

AI/ML Intern Oct 2025 – Jan 2026

# 02log entry

The Mentor

I'd actually met our founder and CEO, Mohammed Kabeer, back in my first year — a senior at REVA. I showed him PEDS, a perimeter electrical defense system I'd been building, and I've been a fan of his work ever since. Once I was inside CropNow, he noticed something simple: I kept staying back after college hours, every day, just to keep building.

# 03log entry

Founder's Office Lead

That's what pulled me into the Founder's Office — Project & Strategic Relations — and eventually got me made Lead. I built a team around the role and became Kabeer's mentee, his left-wing man: before any project started, we'd research and ideate the solution together, and being the computer science person in the room, a lot of the early cloud, tech-stack, and backend planning ran through me before it reached the team. I traveled with him to pitches and conclaves to put our work in front of people who could move it forward.

Founder's Office Lead Dec 2025 – Jun 2026Part-time Project ManagementTeam Management

# 04log entry

The Projects

Akash Bhumi is the one I'm proudest of from this stretch — I was Product Manager, and we shipped the application in under ten days. Alongside it came SEED, a rover for crop monitoring, and The Dot Project, an EdTech platform where Kabeer personally guides students through design thinking and building solutions that actually scale.

Akash BhumiSEEDThe Dot Project

# 05log entry

Core Team

As time went on I moved into CropNow's core team — properly in the room when decisions were being made, not just executing them.

# 06log entry

What I Missed

Somewhere in all of it, I realized how much I missed working with my hands — actually building, not just planning and executing. So I started applying to ISRO, DRDO, places like that.

# 07log entry

ISRO, and Founder's Fellow

I got an opening at ISRO LEOS, on-site in Peenya. My college agreed to let me attend by commuting there daily instead of classes — I'm genuinely grateful for that. And Kabeer, who looks out for the people around him like an older brother would, was fully behind it too. I resigned as Founder's Office Lead, but I didn't want to leave the place and the people who'd built me — and it turned out he didn't want that either. So he made me a Founder's Fellow instead: he's still training me to lead, still shaping how I think, and I still get to bring my own angle to whatever we're building next.

Founder's Fellow Jun 2026 – Present