In India, 90% of engineering graduates leave college without the skills companies actually need. Tech companies can't find market-ready talent. Students can't find jobs that match their degrees. FOSS Workshop exists because that gap is unacceptable — and fixable.
Before FOSS Workshop, I spent years working in the tech industry as a Linux System Administrator and product developer — writing real code, managing real servers, shipping real products.
And in that time, I saw the same thing over and over: engineering graduates — brilliant people from mechanical, civil, electrical, electronics backgrounds — arriving at tech companies completely unprepared for actual work. Not because they weren't smart. Because nobody had ever trained them on what industry actually looks like.
At the same time, I watched tech companies struggle to find junior engineers they could trust with real tasks. The gap between what colleges were teaching and what companies needed wasn't just wide — it was getting wider every year.
90% of engineering graduates in India leave college without industry-fit skills. Tech companies can't find suitable, market-ready students. I started FOSS Workshop in 2015 because I knew exactly what that gap looked like — and I knew how to close it.
So I built the training I wished existed. Not theory-first, certification-heavy, placement-promised-but-never-delivered training. Real, open-source, industry-grade programs built around the tools and workflows companies actually use — taught by engineers who are still in the field.
That was 2015. Since then, FOSS Workshop has grown from a single batch in Pune to a multi-track program placing engineers across India and internationally — and a software consulting arm that builds real products for clients in the US, UK, and UAE.
FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software — the philosophy that technology should be open, accessible, and built for everyone. That's not just our name. It's how we teach, what we teach on, and how we think about access to tech careers.
Every tool we train on — Linux, Python, Docker, AWS, React — is industry-standard open-source technology. No proprietary platforms. No locked ecosystems. Just the real stack companies use in production, freely available to every student who walks through our door.
Our mission is to bridge the gap between India's engineering talent and the global tech industry — by giving non-IT graduates the real skills, real experience, and real support to become world-class IT professionals. Not someday. Within 6 months.
Every curriculum decision starts with one question: what do companies actually need? Not what looks good on a brochure.
Students work on live client projects from our consulting pipeline during their corporate internship. Your portfolio is built before you graduate.
We don't disappear after training ends. Placement support — resume, mock interviews, referrals, connects — runs until you have an offer letter.
Everything we teach is on open-source tools. No lock-in, no proprietary platforms — just the real stack that powers the world's best software.
By 2030, FOSS Workshop's mission is to upgrade 10,000 fresher engineers from non-IT backgrounds into world-class IT professionals — trained on the latest technologies shaping the next decade of software.
In an industry full of inflated claims and broken promises, these are the lines we don't cross. Ever.
We will never inflate placement numbers, fabricate salaries, or hide the truth about how long placement takes. If a student takes 4 months to place — that's in our data, not hidden from it. Our credibility is worth more than a marketing number.
Every student at FOSS Workshop works on live projects from our consulting pipeline during their corporate internship. We will never replace that with a fake capstone project or a pre-built tutorial. If the code doesn't run in production, it doesn't count.
We will never hire a trainer who isn't actively working in the field. Every mentor at FOSS Workshop is a practising engineer — writing code, shipping products, solving real problems. Teaching is something they do in addition to their engineering work, not instead of it.
Every person at FOSS Workshop has done the work before teaching it. Our mentors are active engineers — currently building, deploying, and shipping software for real clients. That's not a policy. It's a hiring requirement.
10+ years in tech — from Linux server administration to building AI-powered SaaS products for global clients. Founded FOSS Workshop in 2015 after seeing the massive gap between what engineering colleges teach and what companies actually need. Today, simultaneously running FOSS Workshop, AI Marcom, InternArc, Verdaix, and LadyDoc — all actively mentoring students on real client work.
View LinkedIn →Actively working on AI/ML projects for enterprise clients. Brings real model deployment experience — not just textbook knowledge — into every training session.
Managing cloud infrastructure for production systems daily. Students learn AWS and Docker from someone who debugs real production incidents — not simulated ones.
Manages the full placement journey from resume build to offer letter — maintaining relationships with 100+ hiring companies and personally handling every student's job search.
Not for CS graduates. Not for people who already know how to code. For engineers from every branch who were told their degree wasn't the right one — and who refused to accept that.