Returned to my alma mater, DG Vaishnav College, after 15 years — this time not a…

RV

AI Engineer, Educator, Entrepreneur

India has 27 million open-source developers, the 2nd largest GitHub community in the world. GitHub's COO expects us to be #1 by 2028. But most Indian developers still treat GitHub as a place to store code, not to show work. Your open-source contributions are a public, verifiable resume. A recruiter can't see your office work — but they can see your PRs, your issues, your consistency. I've seen candidates get shortlisted purely because their GitHub told a better story than their CV.

RV

AI Engineer, Educator, Entrepreneur

IT companies are now paying Elite Engineers up to ₹15-16 LPA! In 2-3 years, you can become a forward-deployed Engineer. But who is an Elite Engineer? An Elite Engineer is not someone who knows AI instead of coding — it's someone who knows AI on top of coding. Your college won't make you an Elite Engineer. Your syllabus was written before ChatGPT was born. The ₹15L fresher and ₹3.5L fresher studied the same syllabus — one waited for college to teach him, the other opened YouTube in 2nd year.

RV

AI Engineer, Educator, Entrepreneur

For 100 years, automobile companies hired mechanical engineers. That era is ending. So if you're a software developer thinking "automobile is not my field" — wrong. The car industry needs YOU more than the IT industry does right now. Your modern car is basically a smartphone on wheels. A car isn't a machine anymore. It runs on millions of lines of code — from the infotainment screen to the braking system; software controls everything. Shortage + demand = your salary goes up. Simple economics.

RV

AI Engineer, Educator, Entrepreneur

The biggest problem humans are going to face in this 21st Century is not Climate Change, Its Distraction. Reading a full book? Gone. Sitting with one thought for 30 minutes? Almost impossible now. Here's the truth: In the 20th century, the rich had money. In the 21st century, the rich will have focus. Focus is the new superpower. Attention is the new currency. So the question isn't "what do you want to achieve?" It's "can you stay focused long enough to achieve it?"

RV

AI Engineer, Educator, Entrepreneur

Happy to hear that the private company Skyroot Aerospace launched India's first privately developed orbital-class rocket; congratulations to the entire team. BTW, it has been worrisome to see 100 top scientists resign from ISRO (via voluntary retirement) to join private startups. This same pattern can be observed at NASA; NASA is losing its talent, and they are being absorbed by SpaceX and Blue Origin.