He was part of the team which distributed linux operating system free to people across India.

He worked in Biligiriranga Hills for more than a year before he took up full time wildlife photography and filmmaking as a profession.

Kalyan is involved in fostering community among photographers and wildlife conservationists since his early years.

In 2015, he co-founded the slow-journalism initiative the Peepli project, which delves deep into the unreported, under-reported, themes that public discourse currently abdicates.

Kalyan undertook a year long project to document human-elephant conflict in Karnataka and the relationship that shepherds share with arid regions of India.