Aswin K R
a 33 year old, still trying to figure out life and purpose
Eight years at Entri — joined as a Team Lead when the company was still figuring out what it was, stayed through every stage that followed. The work has been cross-functional the whole way: revenue, strategy, marketing, operations, product, and now learning impact. Currently leading the department asking how you deliver maximum learning value to a user — in their own language, in less time, at lower cost — for 15 million learners across vernacular India.
Before Entri: taught UPSC subjects at coaching institutes, co-founded a learning space in Ernakulam that was part bookshop, part café, part thinking room, and spent nearly two years at Accenture in Bengaluru. Each chapter taught something different about how people learn and how organisations actually work.
The other serious occupation is reading. Also thinking about platform economics, language as infrastructure, EdTech, governance, and the Indian Constitution. Writing occasionally. Speaking when invited.
This site is where I think in public. And as someone said — "Do not seek me in my words; I am hidden within my thoughts."
Writing
Published on LinkedIn. Click any title to read.
Projects
Things I'm working on — personal and professional.
Garden
Notes that aren't finished. Ideas being turned over. Connected to Notion — coming soon.
This garden grows in public, slowly, and never quite finishes.
Books 2026
What I'm reading. Notes where a book left a mark.
Quotes
Lines that stopped me. Kept here so I don't lose them.
About
33. From Kerala. Cross-functional leader, EdTech builder, reader of too many things. Still figuring out what all of it adds up to — and mostly okay with that.
Started at Accenture as an Associate Software Engineer in Bengaluru — a brief but useful education in how large organisations actually function versus how they think they function. Left after less than two years with a clearer sense of what I didn't want, which turned out to be more valuable than it sounds.
Spent three years teaching GK and current affairs to UPSC aspirants at institutes like Naipunya IAS Academy and Career Launcher. Alongside that, co-founded Insight Learning Habitat in Ernakulam — a space that was part bookshop, part café, part thinking room, built for students, scholars, and teachers who needed somewhere to think. That experiment lasted nearly two years and taught me more about learning, community, and what people actually need from an education environment than anything else has since.
Joined Entri in 2018 as a Team Lead when the company was still finding its shape. Stayed through every stage — building Entri TV, moving into strategy and business development, taking on P&L ownership, and eventually leading the Learning and Impact function. The work has never fit neatly into one title. Cross-functional is the honest description: whatever the company needed at each stage, that's what the role became. Eight years of zero-to-one and everything after.
Currently focused on the hardest question in EdTech: how do you deliver maximum learning value to a user, in the least time, at the lowest cost — in their own language? Entri serves 15 million learners across vernacular India. The gap between what people need and what the system gives them is still enormous. AI is changing what's possible here, and I'm trying to figure out what that actually means in practice, not in theory.
Executive Certificate in Business Analytics and Data-Driven Decision Making from IIM Visakhapatnam. Currently pursuing an MBA from BITS Pilani — Work Integrated Learning Programme, Strategy and Consulting track. Both done alongside full-time work, which is either a sign of ambition or poor time management. Probably both.
I read seriously — history, governance, EdTech, fiction, economics, the Indian Constitution. I write when something is worth saying. I think about platform economics, language as infrastructure, and why motivation matters more than content in adult learning. I speak when invited. I'm still working out the larger questions.