He started techcadd in 2016 to give young people in Punjab technology skills and the confidence to use them. The method has not changed since that first classroom: practising engineers as trainers, project work instead of slide decks, and a curriculum rewritten whenever the industry moves — which is how AI, cloud and cyber security joined the syllabus.
Working alongside technical graduates, one pattern repeated: strong marks, complete syllabi, and no evidence. Students could describe a technology without ever having shipped anything with it, and interviewers in Jalandhar had learned to stop asking about coursework.