Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

• Build Predictive Climate Models to understand and pre-empt risks on businesses and underwriting due to a changing climate.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 · 4 yrs · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Finance practice:
• Built and led the practice at NSR (Analysys Mason) to deliver key insights on next-gen pricing-supply models, financial models, and satellite constellations. Clients included: SES, SpaceX, OneWeb, Telesat, Intelsat, Airbus, along with Hedge funds, Banks, and Private Equity clients.
• Consulting and Due-Diligence:
• Consulted and led/participated in DD for 15 companies across the value chain of operators, manufacturers, launchers, service providers, and financial institutions (2018-2021). Delivered a detailed technical and business analysis of LEO Constellation's state of the industry report (2020).
• Core innovation:
• Built new satellite pricing algorithms at NSR that changed the state of the Satcom industry and pushed incumbents into action (2017-2019). Yearly reports on the Financial state of the industry and Satcom supply-demand with one-offs towards C-band, UAVs, VSAT, Broadband, and others.
• Focus: Management Consulting, Due-Diligence, Market intelligence Innovation, Bandwidth Pricing Models, Satellite/Space Infra Financing, Strategy Planning, Investment models, and Writing/Publishing newsletters.

Jun 2016 – Nov 2016 · 5 mos · Luxembourg

• Deep dive into strategic shifts within SES's media and telecom businesses. Assessment on the impact on future strategy from new-age network infrastructures, self/managed media services, and satellite constellations/ HAP's concepts.

Sep 2012 – Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

• Reusable Launch Vehicle Project, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
• Leadership:
• Analysed literature, conducted aeroelastic simulations, unearthed the core issues and corrected them, and led a team to conduct wind tunnel experiments in the incompressible flow regime. Participated in the tests from sonic to the hypersonic regime - contributing to writing MATLAB code, performing structural simulations, and validating the wing-body-booster configuration in FRR/MRR.
• Analysis:
• Wrote MATLAB code to generate and validate simulation (PARAS) data with wind tunnel data (M=0.3 to 5.6) and build input to FLXTRJ code for Wing body vehicle atop a booster-fin configuration.
• Manufacturing:
• Solved problems in thermal/QA to and successfully enabled manufacturing of silica tiles (~1000 numbers for the final flight
• Fast-track promotion to Project (Product) Management after 2 years of solving critical issues and leadership.
• Focus: Multi-Agency coordination for experiments, Problem-Solving within unknown areas, Scaling production at Tier-1, Project management, and Leadership.

Aug 2009 – May 2012 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

• Systems Engineer:
• Led a team of 25 students in designing, manufacturing, testing, and launching the first student rocket in India in 2012. Achieved apogee of 16kms, 15% efficient rocket motor along with a new telemetry payload.
• Coordinated with ~30 ISRO scientists and ~7 IIST faculties and got clearance from various Design Review Teams (DRT) and FRR/MRR teams.
• Designer for VYOM motor:
• The Propulsion team delivered a new solid rocket motor configuration within the RH200 shell (currently absorbed within ISRO’s Sounding rocket program and flying today)
• Project Scientist:
• Awarded the title at launch for leading the technical team.
• Focus: Systems Engineering, Solid Propulsion (Design and Testing), Mission and Aerodynamics, Project Management, Recruitment, Coordination, and Execution within 8 sub-systems.