# Kunal Kushwaha

> Kunal Kushwaha is a London-based developer educator, founder of WeMakeDevs and Senior Developer Advocate at CAST AI. After learning in public through open-source communities during university in Delhi, he made free coding videos, helped build a student cloud-native community and turned his teaching into a global network of developers and hackathons.

- **Role:** Senior Developer Advocate at CAST AI; Founder of WeMakeDevs
- **Organizations:** WeMakeDevs, CAST AI, Civo, Cloud Native Computing Foundation, GitHub
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Delhi
- **Known for:** GitHub Star, CNCF Ambassador, CNCF Dan Kohn Scholarship recipient

## Career timeline

- **2018-2022** — Studied at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology in Delhi and began contributing to open source, including the Kubernetes Java client.
- **2019** — Received a CNCF Dan Kohn Scholarship to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in San Diego.
- **2020-2021** — Began publishing free programming tutorials during the pandemic, including a Git and GitHub tutorial in August 2021.
- **2023** — Profiled by CNCF as a developer advocate at Civo, CNCF Ambassador and advocate for students in cloud native.
- **2024** — Said WeMakeDevs had grown beyond 100,000 members and announced a team-led relaunch funded by him.
- **2025** — Discussed his self-directed education and move from Delhi to London on the freeCodeCamp Podcast; his personal site lists him at CAST AI.
- **2026** — Announced WeMakeDevs' Bharat Builds Tour, a six-city hybrid hackathon series with AWS.

## Achievements

- GitHub Star
- CNCF Ambassador
- CNCF Dan Kohn Scholarship recipient
- Former KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Student Track chair
- Google Summer of Code mentor
- Founder of WeMakeDevs
- Creator of a Git and GitHub tutorial with more than three million YouTube views as indexed in September 2026

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — WeMakeDevs launched the first Bharat Builds Tour hackathon, First Commit, with online participation and an in-person Bengaluru build day.
- **2026-08** — Kushwaha announced a six-city Bharat Builds Tour with AWS, running September to December 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://www.techwithkunal.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunal-kushwaha/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/kunalstwt
- GitHub: https://github.com/kunal-kushwaha
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KunalKushwaha
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kunalsig/

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Last updated: 2026-09-29