Scaler School of Technology

When Kunal Shah spoke at Scaler’s 2021 convocation, all of us left with ideas we still carry and think about.

Today, he’s been named Global Head of WhatsApp at Meta, and we couldn’t be more excited for him.

Kunal has been with Scaler from the very beginning - an Angel Investor and Supermentor who backed SST’s vision and helped inspire our curriculum from the ground up.

We’re so glad to see him at this stage. We know he’s going to do great things at WhatsApp.

Congratulations, Kunal. This is so well deserved!

14 SST students have been selected for Apple Developer Academy’s Italy cohort!

They head to Naples in less than two months for a 9-month, fully funded program at the University of Naples Federico II, one of the very few ADA campuses in the world fully open to international students.

300 students are selected from thousands of applicants every year.

We’re so glad to see some of our own faces amongst them!

It all started with one person. Krishna Patidar, 3rd year student at SST, became the first ever Indian to get into Apple Developer Academy, through the Bali cohort.

Then six SST students got into the 2026 Bali cohort. Out of 220 students, every single Indian in that cohort was from SST. And now 14 students are heading to Italy!

Batch by batch, a culture around ADA has been quietly building on campus. Seniors passing down what they know, peers helping each other sharpen their profiles, and students showing up to one of Apple’s most selective programs as prepared as they can be.

A few things our students shared about the process:
→ A well-rounded profile matters more than a purely technical one. Co-curriculars and outside pursuits count just as much.
→ The group interview gives you a problem you’ve already solved. In the room, you have 10 to 15 minutes to hear everyone out and land on one answer together.
→ They are not looking for who dominates the room. They are looking for who holds it together.

Couldn’t be prouder of all of you - Krishna, Pooja Talele, Aatmik Panse, Srinidhi Narendran, Tushar Shaw, Anisha Singhal, Rajveer Bishnoi, Drithi, Sanskriti, Arka ghosh, Shrival Kumar, Shubh Srivastava, Varsh*ta Kholupuri, Arnav Gupta.

We cannot wait to see what you build, what you find, and who you become over the next 9 months in one of the world’s greatest cities. Kudos to all of you!

In just her 2nd year of college, Sai Sevithaa is one of the first Indian women ever selected to Apple Developer Academy, Bali.

A program with an approximate selectivity rate of less than 2.8%.

Here’s how she got there 👇

Vitha grew up in Chennai, always deeply enthusiastic about science and mathematics. She entered the JEE cycle, gave it two serious attempts, and somewhere along the way realised the race was making her resent the very things she loved.

She chose to walk away, not out of defeat, but out of extreme clarity.

She found her way to SST, got her fundamentals right, built projects that genuinely reflected who she is, and led The Orator’s Society as their founding president.

Then…Apple Developer Academy came into the picture!

5 days before the applications closed, a friend nudged her to apply. She had known about ADA through her senior, Krishna Patidar, who was in the previous cohort.

She put together a quick portfolio and submitted it. And a few days later she had cleared every stage of the selection process!

Apple Developer Academy, Bali runs a 10-month full scholarship program with a cohort of around 220 students from over 20 countries this year. 6 of them are Indian, and from SST.

Vitha and her classmate Prisha are the first Indian women ever to be selected to the Bali academy.

She’s just turned 21. Living alone for the first time, managing her own finances, figuring out a new country, and genuinely thriving through all of it.

So excited for what comes next. Incredibly proud of you, Vitha 💙



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He joined college with no coding knowledge at all.

Now in his 3rd year,he’s already an AI engineer at Mamaearth!

Here’s how Keshav made it all happen 👇

He grew up in Kothagudem, a small town in Telangana, in a joint family of three generations.

His introduction to technology was a single slow desktop at home, and a quiet curiosity about how websites worked that eventually became a serious interest in computer science.

He had no JEE coaching centre in his town, and the pandemic took away every other option. One month of YouTube lectures was all he had, and he came out with an 87 percentile.

He joined SST on a scholarship, where his first trimester alone had 60 back-to-back DSA classes.

He also founded the college’s media club from scratch, worked as a TA for 6 months and built a seating plan generator tool that his college still uses today.

That project is what got him noticed for his first internships!

From there, he interned at TradeIndia in Noida, then spent 10 months at Zippmat in Bangalore learning how startups really function, and is now at Honasa Consumer (Mamaearth) in Hyderabad as an AI engineer intern.

Since his first internship, Keshav has paid for his own hostel, food and travel, and even contributed toward his own college fees!

At Honasa, his automation work has already saved hours of manual effort for the finance and ops teams, and a PPO is on the horizon.

So proud of you, Keshav 🙌



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