# Rahul Dhileep Kumar > 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. ## How I got here No grand plan. Six things that happened, in order. ### 01. Bio-maths in class 12. Computer science after that. 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. ### 02. I coached at a sports academy. That is where it started. 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. ### 03. I learned it by doing it badly first. 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. ### 04. Then real people depended on it. 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](https://www.arunvignesh.my/). Stuck on something yourself? Message him. He will probably help you too. Please do not tell him I said that. > Arun somehow fixes it. ### 05. It did not stay one product. 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. ### 06. Still a student, technically. 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. ## Things I have made - **Track My Academy** ([trackmyacademy.com](https://www.trackmyacademy.com)): The one I rebuilt myself, out of pure irritation. - **BioPipeline** ([biopipeline.online](https://www.biopipeline.online)): The favour that grew. - **Veeran** ([veerancup.in](https://www.veerancup.in)): Why I overanalyse football now. - **Smart Football**: Why I own safety glasses. More on each one: https://www.rahuldk.in/projects. The facts about me in one place: https://www.rahuldk.in/about ## Before any of this 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. ## Writing First-person posts. All of them: https://www.rahuldk.in/blog (Markdown: https://www.rahuldk.in/blog.md). - [Bootstrapped on purpose: building TrackMy Tech without investors](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/bootstrapped-on-purpose) (2026-10-18): TrackMy Tech is bootstrapped. What that means day to day, why it suits a founder who hates spending money, and the honest trade-offs: slower progress, our own money on the line, and hardware that stalls without funding. - [I tried to build my own offline Claude Code](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/building-my-own-offline-claude-code) (2026-10-18): I built an offline coding-agent experiment with Electron, React, Ollama and Monaco to poke at one problem: how much a local model can remember. Here's the stack, and the context window wall anyone trying this will hit. - [The 3 a.m. call: why every founder needs an Arun](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/every-founder-needs-an-arun) (2026-10-18): When I'm stuck badly enough, I call Arun, our CTO. He picks up at any hour. Why every founder needs that one person, what the research says about trust in founding teams, and how to make the 3 a.m. call rarer. - [Multi-tenant SaaS, explained with a football academy](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/multi-tenant-saas-explained-with-a-football-academy) (2026-10-18): Multi-tenancy, explained with academies sharing one building and roles that open different rooms. Silo, pool and bridge models, noisy neighbours, data leaks and role-based access, for beginners. - [I built a pager for my own developers](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/pager-system-for-my-own-developers) (2026-10-18): An expired SSL certificate took us four hours to find. Later, I built a Pager System for Track My Academy developers. Why small teams need alerting, and what I think a good internal pager should do. - [Shipping Android and iOS solo (iOS: coming soon)](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/shipping-android-and-ios-solo) (2026-10-18): I built the Track My Academy Android and iOS apps myself. Android is live. iOS is coming soon. Here is what stands between any solo developer and the two app stores, and why Android first makes sense for an Indian product. - [Python for commerce students, from a former bio kid](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/teaching-python-to-commerce-students) (2026-10-18): I was the resource person for a Python for financial analysis workshop for B.Com students. A few years ago I was the non-CS kid in a CS class. Why I think commerce students should learn Python, and a free beginner path from spreadsheet to pandas. - [A coach complained, so I built sports academy management software](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/a-coach-complained-so-i-started-a-company) (2026-10-09): A coach couldn't tally his fee payments, and the academy owner asked me to build a tiny app. That spreadsheet-powered prototype became Track My Academy, sports academy management software. Here is how a complaint turned into a company. - [Switching from biology to computer science, with zero plan](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/bio-maths-to-computer-science) (2026-10-09): I picked biology in class 12 mostly because of peer pressure. Then I switched to computer science, felt behind, and taught myself to code with freeCodeCamp. The honest version, and what I'd tell anyone switching from biology to computer science. - [Dozens of email accounts: learning AI coding tools as a student](https://www.rahuldk.in/blog/dozens-of-email-accounts-and-zero-shame) (2026-10-09): Learning AI coding tools as a student, the messy way: we chased free trials before we knew Claude or Codex. What it taught me about picking AI coding assistants, prompting and building. ## Experience ### Executive Director, TrackMy Tech Pvt Ltd *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. ### AI & Product Development Lead, BioBrigade · BioPipeline *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. ### Founder & Product Engineer, Track My Academy *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. ### Technical Operations Manager, CP Sports *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. ### Web Developer Intern, Wayspire *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. ## CV The same history as PDFs, cut for different readers. - [Full CV](https://www.rahuldk.in/cv/rahul-dhileep-kumar-cv.pdf): Everything · 4 pages - [Product engineer](https://www.rahuldk.in/cv/rahul-dhileep-kumar-product-engineer-cv.pdf): Engineering roles · 2 pages - [Academic](https://www.rahuldk.in/cv/rahul-dhileep-kumar-academic-cv.pdf): Graduate study · 2 pages - [Investor](https://www.rahuldk.in/cv/rahul-dhileep-kumar-investor-cv.pdf): One page, with the ask ## Photos Official photos of Rahul Dhileep Kumar, free to use with credit, are on the [press page](https://www.rahuldk.in/press). Headshot: https://www.rahuldk.in/rahul-dhileep-kumar.jpg ## Contact If any of this sounds familiar, let’s talk. Twenty minutes, no agenda, no pitch deck. Book a slot at https://calendar.rahuldk.in - Book a call: [calendar.rahuldk.in](https://calendar.rahuldk.in) - Email: [rahuldk1105@gmail.com](mailto:rahuldk1105@gmail.com) - LinkedIn: [the professional one](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkrahul) - GitHub: [mostly half-finished repos](https://github.com/rahuldk1105) --- Canonical page: https://www.rahuldk.in/ · More detail for agents: https://www.rahuldk.in/llms.txt