About Techcake

The story

Why Techcake exists.

The institute was started by Jobin Joseph in response to a pattern that had become impossible to ignore in 15+ years of running production cloud systems.

When Jobin founded HAZERCLOUD, his cloud and DevOps company, he started interviewing freshers for entry-level engineering roles, and watched the same gap appear cohort after cohort.

The candidates had certificates. They had completed courses. They had even built portfolio projects. But there was a clear cliff between what most institutes were teaching and what a working DevOps engineer needed to do on day one. The toolchain looked right on paper; the engineering judgment wasn't there.

Techcake is the answer to that gap. A small institute, with a curriculum built backwards from the work, and a project-based training phase that puts students on actual production-grade projects with experienced working engineers.

The model: practitioner-led, partner-directed, project-led. It's deliberately not the largest institute in Kerala. It's deliberately not the cheapest. It's the one where you finish genuinely job-ready, and the alumni who walk out the door tend to keep walking, into the roles they were trying to get to in the first place.

What makes it different.

Practitioner-led, classes taught by working engineers, not full-time trainers
Mentor-led project training, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Full Stack streams, each guided by working engineers
Project-led learning, theory introduced inline, as you hit it
Small batches, every student known by name
Career support that ends with referrals, not just a certificate
Brand discipline, partner status is the partner's; we don't borrow credentials

Operating principles

What we run the institute by.

Four rules that have stayed constant since the institute opened.

01

Practitioners over trainers

The people teaching the classes ship code in production every week. The classroom is the place they explain how, not what they do for a living.

02

Real projects, named partners

The project-based training programs are mentored by experienced working engineers, real companies with real client work. The work is real. The partner is named. Both are verifiable.

03

Honest about scope

We don't offer job guarantees, we don't run "industry training" with no industry partner, and we don't run a course that includes the RHCSA syllabus and call it RHCSA certification.

04

Small enough to know everyone

Batches are intentionally small. Every student is known by name to the faculty and mentor team. Career support is one-to-one, not cohort-broadcast.

Founder

The person who designs what gets taught.

Techcake's curriculum is designed by its founder, Jobin Joseph. Direction, hiring of practitioner faculty, and the mentor network all flow from this seat.

Founder · CEO · Curriculum Architect

Jobin Joseph.

AWS-certified architect, 15+ years in production cloud systems.

Jobin designs the Techcake curriculum and sets the technical direction. He has spent 15+ years running real production cloud systems for Indian and international clients. He also runs related engineering ventures whose practical experience feeds back into the Techcake curriculum and mentor pool.

AWS DevOps ProAWS SA ProAWS Security SpecialtyRHCE

Leadership

The team that runs the institute.

Operations, strategy, and student success, the people who make the institute actually run.

Leadership

Varghese George

Business Leadership · IT Consulting

20 years in business leadership, IT consulting, and international trade. Brings strategy, operations, and market growth expertise to Techcake.

Anjala Jose

Chief Operating Officer

Heads day-to-day operations at Techcake, admissions, batch operations, student success, and the systems that keep the institute running. Brings operational discipline and a sharp focus on the student experience from the moment of enquiry to graduation.

Core team

Shifna

HR Coordinator

Coordinates HR and people operations at Techcake, supporting recruitment, onboarding, and the day-to-day student-facing administration that keeps batches running smoothly.

Shahana

Career Advisor

Guides students on career direction, resume building, and interview readiness as part of Techcake's career support.

Shamna

Career Counselor

Counsels prospective and current students, helping them choose the right program and stay on track toward their goals.

Trainers

The people who teach the classes.

The trainer roster is composed of working DevOps engineers, SRE leads, and AWS architects, practitioners who teach what they did at work that week. New trainers join as cohort sizes scale; the constant is that the people in front of the class ship for a living.

Amitha

Program Lead · DevOps

Leads the DevOps program at Techcake, designing and delivering hands-on training across Linux, Docker, CI/CD, AWS, and Terraform.

Muhsin

Program Lead · Full Stack Development

Leads the Full Stack Development program, mentoring students through real-world frontend, backend, and deployment work.

Ashwin

Program Lead · Cybersecurity & VAPT

Leads the Cybersecurity & VAPT program, covering system hardening, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and defensive security practice.

Industry mentors

Engineers who come back to teach.

Working engineers from production environments in India and overseas, who join Techcake batches as guest mentors. They review projects, share what the job actually looks like, and connect students into wider industry networks.

Mentor roster

Nishad Salam

Mentor · Kuwait

Working engineer based in Kuwait. Brings Middle East industry exposure and technical depth to Techcake batches as a guest mentor.

Prajith P

Mentor · SRE Lead · AirAsia Malaysia

SRE Lead at AirAsia in Malaysia. Mentors students on production reliability engineering and what a senior SRE role actually looks like day-to-day.

Who mentors the project work

Who mentors the 6-month project phases.

The project-based training phases are guided by experienced working engineers, practitioners who ship for a living, not full-time trainers. We keep mentor identities and partner arrangements off public marketing pages until we have written agreement to be named publicly.

01

DevOps & Cybersecurity mentors

The DevOps and Cybersecurity project phases are mentored by working DevOps engineers, SRE leads, and security practitioners with hands-on cloud experience. Mentor reviews happen on Techcake premises.

02

Full Stack mentors

The Full Stack project phase is mentored by working web engineers with experience shipping client-facing work, frontend, backend, and the integration glue in between.

Institute facts

The plain details.

LEGAL

Legal name

Techcake Cloud Innovations LLP

LOCATION

Campus

3rd Floor, SM Tower, Taliparamba, Kannur, Kerala 670141, India

CONTACT

Phone & email

+91 9544 95 7747
hello@techcake.in

PROGRAMMES

What we run

1 Career Program · 2 standalone courses · 3 standalone project-based training programs · College tie-ups

An institute built by practitioners.