Vishnu
Dileesh

I am the most curious person in the room — and often the youngest, and often the only one without a college degree. Builder of things. Collector of questions. The two have never really been separate.

Dropped out of college three times. Each time, a problem showed up that needed solving more than I needed a degree. Self-taught coder, three co-founded startups across healthcare, emergency response, and education. The through-line was never the industry — it was always the problem.

If I could sit across from anyone from history, it'd be Feynman. No agenda. Just questions, probably for twelve hours straight. That instinct — pulling things apart until you actually understand them — is the closest thing I have to a philosophy.

These days I lead engineering and product at Thea IT Solutions. Curiosity with a deadline. Nights at the soldering iron, deep in the hardware space — learning constantly, burning out LEDs and frying gyro modules along the way.

Long walks are where the connections happen. Podcast or audiobook in, and somewhere between the first and fifth kilometre, things start clicking — something from a biology book linking up with a startup story I heard two weeks ago. I read across everything — biographies, philosophy, science, psychology — and the walks are where it all starts talking to each other.