First Team — Building a 7-Person Crew

Overview

Before the first engineering job, Karanveer bet his own savings on assembling a seven-person team to share the development burden and pursue a ThemeForest template pipeline. He designed role-specific curricula, ran training sessions across five distinct domains, and managed five named team members simultaneously — with no prior management experience. Financial pressure and collective procrastination compounded until he made the call to dissolve cleanly, which freed the energy that led directly to landing the first engineering role at Prachyam.

Tech

No code repository — this is a leadership and management narrative. The primary artefact is the management experience itself: team structure design, role-specific curriculum creation, and the decision framework for when to exit a failing initiative before it becomes a deeper liability.