About · Kiran V.K.
Eleven years in one classroom, and I'm still learning.
I've been teaching computer science at NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad since July 2014 — eleven years, forty-odd courses across the syllabus, and one running conviction: if we're studying blockchain we deploy contracts, if it's AI we build with it. Slides that describe tools, without ever touching the tools, are a waste of everyone's afternoon.
The teaching is one half. The other half is small things I build so students learn faster than I did — a custom KTU Exam GPT a thousand of them use, a bench-answer portal that puts every phone in class on the projector, augmented-reality guides for the lab equipment, six years of solved KTU papers written line by line. When something is missing I write it and put it here, on this site, free.
Impact / 01
What I teach and build / 02
How I teach / 03
"If we're learning blockchain, we deploy contracts. If it's AI, we build with it. If it's compilers, we write one. That's the whole method."
Most of my classes involve hands-on artefacts — a game to visualize what a hash does, a portal that turns benches into teams answering the same question, a lab manual system that shows a student the moment their code passes. Theory is the frame; a working thing under the student's own hand is the picture inside it.
I keep the material free and unauthenticated on this site because most of my students carry cheap Androids on unreliable data. Every extra tap is a tax. Every login is a wall.
Recognition & Community / 04
Faculty Coordinator, Cypher Space — blockchain community, official CSE dept, inaugurated 6 March 2026. Ran the Ethereum Foundation Road-to-Devcon builder series in July 2026: reading groups, Solidity workshop, mini-hackathon.
Board of Studies for Computer Engineering & IT, University of Calicut. Programming Lab In-charge. Campus Networking Cell member — the people who keep the WiFi standing.
Recent speaking: BUIDL THE CHAIN blockchain workshop (ISTE virtual, Feb 2026). Attended: OpenAI Education Summit at The Leela Palace, Delhi (Aug 2025).
Connect / 05
Best email is kiranvk@nssce.ac.in. On LinkedIn as well. See contact for office hours and location.