The tools changed at every stage. The way I learn didn’t: build something, break it, understand it, make the next version better.
Chapter 01Age 8 → 2021
I started learning electronics when I was eight, taught by Dr. Ramani Kalpathi. At first it was breadboards, sensors, Arduino boards and a lot of things that didn’t work.
The habit
Every project needed something I didn’t know yet, so I learned it because the project needed it. That became the way I learn everything.
Hover a step to see it on the circuit
2020–21
The lockdown gave me time, so I built constantly: a low-cost pulse oximeter during the shortage, a fire cut-off switch, a gas safety device, sub-surface irrigation, ultrasonic tools and home automation.
Most of it wasn’t commercially useful. That wasn’t the point. I was learning how ideas became physical systems.
Chapter 022020 → 2023
I stopped asking only “can I build it?” and started asking “could someone actually use this?”
2020 → 2023 · Registered design
A wireless charger with an internet router built in. The prototype came first, in 2020. The design was registered and published in May 2023.
Read the case file
2022–23 · Designed, built and sold
A stepper-driven mount, my first PCB that shipped, and a 3D-printed control box you can use in the dark. The first thing I made that someone else paid for.
Read the case fileChapter 032023 → 2025 · New Zealand
About two years in Christchurch: Hagley College, part-time jobs, and an electric kart that taught me to think in systems instead of parts.
EVolocity · 2023
An ESP32 reading speed, current and temperatures, publishing over MQTT to a Raspberry Pi, with a display for the driver. It was the first time my electronics had to survive vibration, noise and a race.
Canterbury Regional Finals 2023 · Team Trevor, Hagley College
EVolocity · 2024
A new four-wheeled kart, and this time I built the entire electrical system: a central ECU, the sensors, a control box, battery testing and a 3D-printed steering wheel with two screens.
Read the EVolocity case fileGlidePower · Jan 2025
My scooter’s charger was a heavy brick, and my laptop charger already did 100 W over USB-C. GlidePower asks the charger for 20 V and steps it up to 42 V, so one charger charges everything.
Read the GlidePower case fileSide business · 2024 → 2025
On the side, I sold 3D-printed keychains and lithophanes on Facebook Marketplace. Then I pitched one product cold: a keychain with an NFC tag inside, so a tap on a phone opens the business’s page. I walked into a local trades company, explained why they needed one, and they ordered a batch.
It was the first time I sold something I had designed to a business that didn’t know me.
More on the Work page29 Jul 2025
I loved New Zealand. But for the kind of companies I wanted to build, India felt like a much larger playground: more businesses to approach, lower barriers to experimenting and more room to take risks.
The first months were quieter than I expected.
Chapter 04Jul 2025 → Jul 2026
Founder stories usually get rewritten as a straight line. This one wasn’t. Month by month: what happened after I came back, what broke, and what each month taught me.
Aug → Oct 2025
QuietPlenty of learning, not much building. The ambition didn’t have a vehicle yet.
LessonActivity isn’t the same as compounding progress.
Oct → Nov 2025
StartedMet Chinmay and went all in on ROBIQ: curriculum, hardware and school programs, taught the way I learned. By building.
LessonTeaching shows whether you actually understand something.
Dec 2025
SeededMet Sukeshwar in person after two years and went to the IIT Bombay E-Summit. The people mattered more than the talks.
LessonBeing able to do ten things isn’t a position.
Jan 2026
PitchedA first video, school pitches and a lot of travel. I also left the Mechatronics program in Bhopal. It wasn’t what I was looking for.
LessonGood products don’t sell themselves.
Feb 2026
ShippedA studio asked us about a website. The real problem was how they handled leads, so we built a lead-automation system on n8n, running on my home server. It became our first retainer.
LessonOne paying client teaches more than months of positioning.
Mar 2026
BrokeWe onboarded an eight-person cold-calling team in Bangalore. The scripts, training and management weren’t ready, and it didn’t work.
LessonHeadcount is not a system.
Apr 2026
CancelledBack on ROBIQ: school visits, an institute partnership and newspaper distribution. A school summer camp got approved, then cancelled.
LessonCount commitments, not compliments.
May 2026
MovedThe retainer started paying for our tools. I pitched 13+ studios in Indore, and weak follow-up meant few of them converted. Then I moved to Chennai.
LessonEffort without follow-up leaks value.
Jun 2026
StalledA lot of planning. Not enough shipping. The leads coming in weren’t good either.
LessonPlanning can become sophisticated procrastination.
Jul 2026
ClickedStartup communities led to better people and better leads. We shipped around three projects that month, and VEXQ finally knew what it was.
LessonPositioning isn’t branding. It changes what you do.
Sep 2026
NowMaking VEXQ repeatable and less dependent on me, building Bizzzauto, and keeping ROBIQ going.
LessonBuild first. Document second.
Chapter 052026 → now · Chennai
In February 2026 a studio asked us about a website. The real problem turned out to be how they handled leads, so we built them a system instead. It became our first retainer, and VEXQ finally understood what it was.
Venture 01VEXQCo-founder & CTO
Lead generation and handling, workflow automation, SOPs, internal tools and custom business systems, so people spend less time moving information by hand.
We didn’t start with that clarity. It came from client work, one real problem at a time.
Client systems are shown anonymised.
Systems shipped · anonymised
System 01 / 06
Studio operations platformA two-branch photography studio: leads, bookings, shoots and client delivery galleries in one staff portal, with WhatsApp updates, office-line call capture and self-healing background workers.
Venture 02ROBIQCo-founder
Build it. Break it. Prove it.
I learned by building things, breaking them and working out why they failed. ROBIQ turns that process into a structured way to learn.
It shouldn’t feel like a tuition centre. It should feel like a technical lab that happens to teach.
Venture 03BizzzautoChennai
Preset CRMs, one-day websites and fixed-price tiers, delivered in hours or days. Every lead caught, every follow-up sent on time, one screen for the owner.
Same team and the same thinking as VEXQ, packaged for owners who need it working by Monday.
TodayWhatsApp + memory
1 / 4 booked
With the systemNothing left to memory
Three ventures · one instinct
VEXQ and Bizzzauto build systems for businesses. ROBIQ teaches people to build them.
VEXQ and Bizzzauto are one company with two front doors. VEXQ is the name that goes in front of a tender committee or a large organisation: fully custom, self-hosted systems, quoted per scope and built over weeks. Bizzzauto is the name that goes on an ad or a landing page: ready-made systems at fixed prices, delivered in hours or days.
Chapter 06Next
I don’t want to choose between business and engineering. The part I find most interesting is where they meet.
Software automates what happens inside a computer. Embedded hardware connects it to the physical world. I started at one end of this stack and build at the other end today.
Long term, I want to build teams that can work across all of it: industrial monitoring, connected products, custom devices. I don’t need to be the best specialist in every layer. I want to be able to build and lead the teams that are.
Kept short on purpose. The work carries the credibility; this is the paper trail behind it.
| Type | Record | Reference | Date / place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design reg. | Smart Wireless Fidelity and Charging System with In-built Internet RouterController General of Patents, Designs & Trade Marks, India | 366627-001 | Filed Jun 2022 Published May 2023 |
| Award | Electronic Innovation AwardEVolocity Canterbury Regional Finals · Team Trevor, Hagley College | 1st | 2023 New Zealand |
| Award | Engineering Design Award · Standard ClassEVolocity Canterbury Regional Finals · Team Trevor, Hagley College | 3rd | 2023 New Zealand |
| Award | Young Scientist AwardFor contribution to technology ecosystem development through innovations and ideas | Certificate | India |
| Recognition | Top 20 Under 20 Influencer AwardsCertificate of Excellence | 2021 | 1 Jul 2021 |
| Copyright record | Smart Wireless Fidelity and Charging SystemPrivate registration via ProtectMyWork.com, not a government copyright | 18784201022S069 | Oct 2022 |