2015 — Present
We started with a belief that every human being deserves a dignified life out of poverty.
Prashant, who was living in Ghaziabad and was working as a software engineer remotely with a US Startup, walked into a Tier-3 engineering college—not as a guest speaker, but as a volunteer. His passion for teaching and technology had taken him there to teach students of the college on practical coding skills.
What began as a few free coding sessions quickly turned into a packed auditorium. Students stayed back for 3-hour classes, three times a week.
As the sessions continued, something shifted. Students, many from underserved backgrounds, began cracking interviews and the best ones forced Prashant to start his own services company. The spark was real.
No marketing, no campaigns—just word of mouth. More colleges' students drew towards this job oriented skilling program to secure high paying jobs. Every batch secured dozens of students with some astounding jobs, and the demand kept growing.
COVID forced everything online. Prashant had shifted to Dehradun. In the quiet of lockdown, a small pilot was planned with an ITI in Dehradun, from where 5 students cleared an aptitude test. Despite limited exposure and basic education, they performed on par with engineering students.
All 5 cracked jobs in software development. This wasn't just a teaching experiment anymore—this was a model waiting to scale.
The Uttarakhand government noticed. With support from the CM's office, CodeYogi was invited to roll out its program across all ITIs and Polytechnics—pro-bono, with just administrative support from the state government.
35,000 students sat for the first state-run test. The top 1,000 were inducted into a 6-month online bootcamp.
Because of various logistics issues, about 300 complete the program and nearly 80% landed jobs or internships within the next 6 months. These successful students were invited to meet the Hon. CM and the program was extended for another year.
After completing the next cohort, the team stepped back to now build for scale. The result: a mobile-first, Hindi-first, AI-enabled course—built to work on any smartphone.
Dewas (MP) became the first pilot site. 180+ government schools. Within months, 16,000+ students enrolled- all self learning.
With a scalable low touch model in place, and high impact demonstrable results, the reach slowly yet steadily expanded to more parts of the country.
It became clear—we weren't just teaching coding. We were building confidence, careers, and a new model for digital skilling. The reach expanded to over 60 districts across 6 different states of the country over 2024.
From a single classroom in Ghaziabad to 3,300+ schools across India, the journey continues.
Multi-language support in Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Marathi—and a mission to make software education truly accessible. Not just to the privileged few, but to every student with a smartphone and a dream.
