About My Engineering Buddy

My Engineering Buddy (MEB) is a private online tutoring service founded in 2008 by Pankaj Kumar in Bengaluru, India, and operated by BlueAura iSolutions Private Limited (CIN: U93000BR2015PTC023959). We connect students from the USA, Canada, UK, Australia, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Jordan with private 1:1 tutors for live sessions via Google Meet. As of March 2026, MEB has served 52,000+ students across 2,800+ subjects with a 97% satisfaction rate and a team of 1,000+ verified tutors. Sessions start at $20/hr with a $1 trial available for new students. Contact: WhatsApp +91 8971 383660 or meb@myengineeringbuddy.com.

• 52,000+ Students Served
• 18+ Years of Trust (since 2008)
• 150,000+ Tutoring Sessions Delivered
• 1,000+ Verified Tutors
• 97% Satisfaction Rate
• 40,000+ Student Reviews

What We Do

MEB’s core service is private 1:1 online tutoring. A student contacts us on WhatsApp, we match them with the right tutor within the hour, and the session happens live on Google Meet with a two-way online whiteboard. There are no bots, no algorithms, and no recorded videos — every session is a real human tutor working with a real student in real time.

Within tutoring sessions, our tutors also provide academic guidance on homework, lab reports, essays, and projects — framed as learning support to help students understand the material, not to complete their work for them. We also offer dedicated test preparation tutoring for AP, SAT, ACT, MCAT, GRE, GMAT, IB, A-Level, EmSAT, and many other exams. Our Academic Integrity Policy explains exactly how we approach this.

We serve students at school level (Grades 7–12), undergraduate, and postgraduate level. The majority of our students are engineering and science undergraduates in the USA, Canada, and Gulf countries, though our subject coverage now spans humanities, business, data science, languages, and much more. See the full list on our Subjects page.

We hire only the top tutors. Our quality standards are non-negotiable: subject mastery first, then speed, then accuracy. Every tutor passes a written test and practical interview before joining. Tutors with consistently poor performance are removed. This is why our average satisfaction rate across 52,000+ students served is 97%.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make world-class private tutoring accessible and affordable to every student, wherever they are in the world.

The gap MEB was built to fill is straightforward: classrooms distribute a teacher’s attention across 30 or 40 students. A private tutor gives you their full attention, adapts to your pace, and answers the question you actually have rather than the question the curriculum expects you to have. Most students would benefit enormously from this kind of personalised attention. Most of them cannot access it easily or affordably. MEB exists to close that gap.

We are not a platform — we do not let students find and book tutors without human involvement. We are a service: a team of real people who listen to what you need, match you to the right expert, and stay involved to make sure the experience is what we promised. This is slower and less scalable than a platform model. It is also why our satisfaction rate is 97% and why the majority of our new students come through referrals from existing ones.

MEB’s History

• 2008 — Founded as My Physics Buddy (MPB)
  Pankaj Kumar started MPB as a solo online physics tutor, initially through Tutorvista and then independently. The first paying student came via word of mouth.
• January 2011 — MPB relaunched as an independent platform
  With co-founder Anthony Khoury, MPB grew into a structured tutoring service for physics. By February 2011 it had enough students to sustain full-time focus.
• August 2011 — Renamed to My Engineering Buddy (MEB)
  Pankaj recognised that limiting the service to one subject was limiting growth. He diversified into engineering, mathematics, and science subjects and renamed the platform. Four tutors joined the team.
• March 2015 — BlueAura iSolutions Private Limited incorporated
  As revenue and team size grew, the business was formally incorporated under Indian law. The company now employs staff across tutoring, student helpline, and operations.
• July 2020 — Rapid growth post-COVID-19
  COVID-19 drove unprecedented demand for online tutoring globally. MEB went from a small team to a structured operation with dedicated student helpline executives, workflow systems, and process documentation within months.
• May 2021 — Reached 50+ subjects, 100+ tutors
  Systematic hiring and quality control allowed rapid expansion without compromising standards.
• April 2022 — Reached 100+ subjects, 200+ tutors
  Growth doubled within a year. My Physics Buddy was simultaneously relaunched as a separate dedicated platform at myphysicsbuddy.com.
• 2023–2024 — Expanded to 2,800+ subjects, 1,000+ tutors
  Coverage expanded well beyond engineering and science into humanities, business, languages, data science, and professional certification subjects. The tutoring platform became genuinely comprehensive.
• October 2025 — 52,000+ students served
  MEB crossed the 50,000 student milestone it had set as a long-term goal. The service continues to grow primarily through student referrals.
• March 2026 — 150,000+ tutoring sessions delivered
  Current state: 1,000+ verified tutors, 2,800+ subjects, 97% satisfaction rate, active in 30+ countries.

The Founder’s Story

Pankaj Kumar’s path to founding MEB is not a straight line. He trained as a marine engineer at MERI Kolkata, graduated in 2004, and joined the merchant navy as a 4th Engineer on oil tankers. In 2007, he was diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome — a serious kidney condition — and doctors advised him to leave the navy. He spent several years managing his health and looking for a new direction.

In 2009 he joined Tutorvista as an online physics tutor. Working from home suited his recovery. It also revealed something he had not expected: that he was genuinely good at explaining physics, that students from the USA and Gulf needed exactly what he could offer, and that the internet made it possible to reach them from anywhere. In 2011, with encouragement and co-founding support from Anthony Khoury — one of his students from Canada — he started My Physics Buddy.

The early months were hard. He taught at JEE preparation classes in Patna while building the online business in parallel. By February 2011 the online side had enough momentum that he could focus on it entirely. From there, the expansion into engineering subjects, then all STEM, then beyond, followed naturally from student demand and the availability of excellent tutors from India’s top engineering institutions.

What MEB reflects is a very specific worldview Pankaj formed from his own experience: that access to a genuinely excellent tutor changes outcomes, that most students do not have that access, and that the internet can fix this if you use it to connect real people rather than to replace them. Every structural decision at MEB — the human helpline team, the manual tutor matching, the refusal to use bots or AI in student interactions — traces back to this belief.

“I have seen very closely how much students struggle to find a good tutor. When I was a student myself, I badly missed an excellent tutor. Solving this problem is the ultimate goal of my life.”
— Pankaj Kumar, Founder & CEO

Leadership Team

Pankaj Kumar — Founder & CEO

An educator since 2006. Pankaj founded My Physics Buddy in 2008 and My Engineering Buddy in 2011. He has a background in marine engineering (MERI Kolkata) and tutored physics and engineering mathematics for over a decade before building MEB into its current form. He is the co-founder of MyPhysicsBuddy.com. Read Pankaj’s full profile.

Kumar Hemendra — Chief People Officer

An engineer and MBA by qualification with 7+ years at MEB. Hemendra manages the organisation’s relationships with students and tutors, and oversees quality control across the tutoring team. He is also a statistics tutor and mentor. Read Hemendra’s profile.

Akhil Sharma — Marketing Head

18+ years of marketing experience. Akhil oversees MEB’s entire marketing operations including SEO, SEM, content, advertising, and partnerships.

Anthony Khoury — Chief Overseas Operations

MEB’s co-founder from the MyPhysicsBuddy days. Anthony is based internationally and manages MEB’s strategic planning and overseas operations, with particular focus on the North American market. Read Anthony’s profile.

The People Behind Every Conversation

“When you contact MEB — by WhatsApp or email — these are the real people who respond, each one a subject expert in their own right.”

The student helpline is the human backbone of MEB’s service. These are the people who respond to your message within minutes — whether you contact us by WhatsApp or email — understand your requirements, match you with the right tutor, and follow up to make sure everything went well. Every one of them is a real person — no bots, no automated responses, just their own expertise and judgment.

Corporate Information

MEB is operated by BlueAura iSolutions Private Limited, incorporated in India in March 2015. BlueAura’s primary business is MEB. The company is registered, GST-compliant, and operates under Indian corporate law.

• Trading name: My Engineering Buddy (MEB)
• Previously: My Physics Buddy (MPB) — visit myphysicsbuddy.com
• Legal entity: BlueAura iSolutions Private Limited
• CIN: U93000BR2015PTC023959
• GST: 10AAGCB2574B1ZD
• PAN: AAGCB2574B
• TAN: PTNB04817B
• Directors: Pankaj Kumar (DIN: 07074788), Asha Agrawal (DIN: 09572074)
• Registered Office: FNO-401, Aryan Residency, Bailey Road, Patna, Bihar 801503, India
• Operating Office: H2-702, Provident Welworth City, Marasandra, Doddaballapur Road, Bengaluru Rural 562163, Karnataka, India

For any legal, compliance, or formal correspondence, contact meb@myengineeringbuddy.com. For press and partnership enquiries, contact marketing@myengineeringbuddy.com.

Get Started

If you are a student or parent looking for private tutoring, visit our Why Choose MEB page to understand our standards and guarantees, see how our sessions work, and check our pricing. Your first 30-minute session costs $1.

If you are a tutor interested in joining MEB, visit our Become a Tutor page.

For everything else: WhatsApp +91 8971 383660 or meb@myengineeringbuddy.com. We respond within minutes, 24/7.