Three monitors. One Monster can. Zero hours of sleep.
I build products, run a company, and am still technically a college student (B.Tech, AI & Data Science). I started building because waiting for someone else got more irritating than learning how to do it myself.
No grand plan. Six things that happened, in order.
In class 12 I was a bio-maths student. Then I ended up in computer science, and from there nothing went the way I had expected.
Best decision I have ever taken, I guess.
I coached football part-time at a sports academy. One evening a coach was complaining about managing attendance and payments for his training batch. A small operational headache, and it stayed with me.
That headache became my first startup, Track My Academy. We hired someone to build it, and what came back was PHP, terrible design, and something that looked like it had come straight from 2006. I looked at it and thought, “Damn. I’ll do this myself.”
That first night I had a MacBook Air, a second-hand iPhone my cofounder had got me, ChatGPT and VS Code. Mostly I researched. Then I built a landing page I actually liked.
I learn by touching the thing until it makes sense. Early on we hunted down every free AI trial we could: dozens of email accounts, a few friends’ accounts too, because we did not know how to use Claude or Codex yet.
Less elegant than it sounds. It worked.
Building it was one job. Keeping it up is another. We once split the backend in two, and everything went down for hours. We blamed our code. It was an expired SSL certificate. I stayed in the office all night.
When I am stuck badly enough, I call Arun.
For context: Arun is our CTO and the one person I trust to pick up at any hour, no questions asked. Curious who he is? Here is his portfolio. Stuck on something yourself? Message him. He will probably help you too. Please do not tell him I said that.
Arun somehow fixes it.
Veeran, a tournament engine, changed how I watch football. I look at the ball’s trajectory, how it changes after each touch, and how the players react to it.
BioPipeline started when I told a senior and friend I would help with his idea. I just stayed involved long enough to watch it grow far beyond that first conversation.
A smart football with sensors inside got me soldering as a complete beginner. Now I am the person spending hours on one perfect joint, in gloves and safety glasses.
In exams I write as fast as I can and leave. Sitting in the hall feels like time taken from everything else I am trying to do. Then I go back to the office.
Some nights Dad opens the gate for me at one a.m. My mother still asks whether I went to class. My answer depends on my mood.
More on each one: https://www.rahuldk.in/projects. The facts about me in one place: https://www.rahuldk.in/about
I was the kid who would not leave the pitch. Played my whole life. Still play. Still physically incapable of accepting a draw.
Before any of the building, I coached part-time. Eleven variables, ninety minutes, and no chance to redo the first half. These days I mostly watch from the edge of the pitch, overanalysing every touch.
First-person posts. All of them: https://www.rahuldk.in/blog (Markdown: https://www.rahuldk.in/blog.md).
Jun 2026 — present
Coming home late, working remotely from my Mac, and moving between technical problems, company decisions and whatever is still on my sticky notes from the night before.
Mar 2026 — present
I told a senior and friend I would help with his idea. Nothing dramatic. I just stayed involved long enough to watch it grow far beyond that first conversation.
Dec 2024 — present
It began with me looking at a terrible first build and deciding to stop complaining about it. Most of the role has been figuring things out because nobody else was going to.
Nov 2023 — present
One casual evening, a coach was complaining about managing attendance and payments for his training batch. A small operational headache. I remember it because those tend to stay with me.
Dec 2023 — Feb 2024
I was in my first year and paid for what I thought was an internship. Months later I realised it was basically training. I am still annoyed at myself for paying for the lesson.
The same history as PDFs, cut for different readers.
Official photos of Rahul Dhileep Kumar, free to use with credit, are on the press page. Headshot: https://www.rahuldk.in/rahul-dhileep-kumar.jpg
If any of this sounds familiar, let’s talk. Twenty minutes, no agenda, no pitch deck. Book a slot at https://calendar.rahuldk.in
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