A village in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh
I grew up in a small village in Gorakhpur district, Uttar Pradesh. Schooling happened there — local, modest, and far from any engineering college. After finishing my 12th, I moved to the city to pursue a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering. That move changed everything.
As a student I encountered the same wall every civil engineering student in India hits: the gap between what IS codes say and what you actually need to do to design a real building. The codes are dense. The textbooks are abstract. The software tools cost more than a semester's fees. I got through it — but I shouldn't have had to struggle the way I did.
Site engineer. Design engineer. Learning while doing.
After graduation, I went into practice — first as a site engineer, then moving into structural design. Real buildings. Real deadlines. Real clients asking why the column size changed between drawings.
Working in the field made it clear how large the gap still was — not just for students, but for fresh graduates stepping into their first design role. Most small offices in India run on spreadsheets that nobody fully understands and experience passed down informally. There was no clean, codal, accessible tool that a junior engineer could trust.
Australia. A master's degree. And a clearer question.
I went to Australia for a master's in structural engineering. Studying at that level — with access to research, rigorous coursework, and engineers who designed at scale — gave me a precise language for what I'd been doing by instinct in the field.
It also sharpened the question I'd been carrying since my bachelor's: why does learning structural design in India have to be so hard? The knowledge exists. The codes are public. The mathematics isn't beyond anyone who made it into an engineering programme. The problem was never intelligence — it was access to the right tools and the right explanation.
Building what I needed as a student.
StructLearnPro came from a simple idea: build the tool I wished existed when I was a student, and when I was exploring my first job.
A platform that takes a real building — any G+1 to G+4 residential, the kind built every day across India — and designs it completely, correctly, per IS 456, IS 875, and IS 1893, showing every step and every clause. Not a black box. Not a shortcut. A proper calculation that an engineer can understand, check, and learn from.
Today StructLearnPro is used by civil engineering students and practicing engineers across India — people who are at exactly the point I was at when I needed this most. That is the reason it exists.