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Roman Saini Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 1, 2026 • 6 min read

Quick Info

Date of birth27 July 1991

Age32 Years (as of 2023)

BirthplaceRaikaranpura Village, Kotputli Town, Jaipur, Rajasthan

ProfessionEducator, Entrepreneur, Former Civil Servant (IAS), Doctor, Motivational Speaker

NationalityIndian

Marital statusUnmarried

FamilyFather (engineer), Mother (homemaker), Brother Avesh Saini (paediatrician), Sister Ayushee Saini (medical student)

Roman Saini Biography

Roman Saini is an Indian doctor-turned-educator and entrepreneur best known as a co‑founder of Unacademy. A former Indian Administrative Service officer, S

Early life and background

Roman Saini was born on 27 July 1991 in Raikaranpura village near Kotputli in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Raised in a middle‑class household, he completed his schooling in Rajasthan and went on to study medicine at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He earned his MBBS from AIIMS and served there as a junior resident during the early years of his career.

Career

Saini’s path moved from medicine to public service when, motivated by experiences during medical camps in 2011, he decided to prepare for the Indian Civil Services. While still a medical student he joined an educational venture proposed by a school friend and became one of the founding members of Unacademy alongside Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh and Sachin Gupta. He continued his UPSC preparation without enrolling in formal coaching, using available study material and test series, and opted for Medical Sciences as his optional subject.

At age 22, in 2013, Saini cleared the Civil Services Examination and was allotted the Indian Administrative Service, Madhya Pradesh cadre. After training at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) in Mussoorie he was posted as Assistant Collector in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh.

Despite a promising trajectory in the civil service, Saini left his government post in 2016 to devote himself full time to Unacademy. Under his involvement the platform focused on producing free educational content across disciplines — from medicine and information technology to civil services preparation and foreign languages — with courses and materials delivered by a team that included teachers, civil servants, engineers and doctors. The Unacademy channel on YouTube drew large audiences and its content has helped many aspirants preparing for competitive exams.

Public profile

Saini is known publicly as an educator, entrepreneur, former IAS officer, medical doctor and motivational speaker. People have noted his unconventional approach to career choices: moving from medicine to administration and then to education entrepreneurship. He describes himself as someone who follows his interests rather than conventional benchmarks, and his stated hobbies include playing the guitar, solving puzzles, traveling and listening to music.

Personal life

Saini’s family includes a father who is an engineer, a homemaker mother, a brother, Avesh Saini, who is a paediatrician, and a sister, Ayushee Saini, who was a medical student at the time of the available information. He practices Hinduism and identifies with the Mali community (an OBC group). As of 2023 he was unmarried.

Public controversies

In October 2017 Saini filed a police complaint at the Indiranagar police station in Bengaluru naming a woman he said had been harassing him since 2016. The complaint alleged she had been pressing him to marry her and demanding money. The woman had been associated with Unacademy in 2016.

Latest updates

Following his resignation from the IAS in 2016, Saini concentrated on building Unacademy into a widely viewed online education resource for competitive‑exam aspirants. Information available notes that Unacademy’s growth included high viewership on YouTube and that multiple subscribers of the platform have cleared the civil services examination.

Saini continues to be active as an educator and speaker, known for emphasizing intrinsic motivation and for choosing projects aligned with his personal interests rather than external expectations.
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Recent Work

Unacademy (co‑founder)

Co‑founder of the online education platform producing video lessons and study materials across disciplines, with significant YouTube viewership and impact on UPSC aspirants.

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Career Highlights

  1. MBBS from AIIMS, New Delhi
  2. Cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination in 2013 (rank 18)
  3. Served as Assistant Collector, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh
  4. Co‑founder of Unacademy, left IAS in 2016 to work full time on the platform
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Frequently Asked Questions

When was Roman Saini born?

27 July 1991

What is Roman Saini known for?

Educator, Entrepreneur, Former Civil Servant (IAS), Doctor, Motivational Speaker

What is Roman Saini’s marital status?

Unmarried