Hi, I am Vivek Gupta Innovation Consultant
Experienced Individual with a Decade of experience in KPI-driven scaling & managing innovation teams, Labs, projects and processes.
My Core Functional competency
I help corporates and startups find, test and validate their ideas in the area of IoT/Conversational AI/Blockchain/Robotics/AR/VR with Agile Methodology under a competitive budget.
My Core Technical Competency
I have expertise in rapidly building, testing and evolving prototypes in emerging tech. With hands-on approach, I have accumulated understanding and experience working with wide variety of technologies.
My Specialization
Innovation Consulting & Management
Expert in driving innovation from ideation to implementation, fostering creativity, and aligning strategies with business goals.
Research and Development
Skilled in conducting R&D to introduce innovative products, exploring new technologies, and creating market-ready prototypes.
Rapid Prototyping
Expert in rapid prototyping to quickly create and test models, refining ideas in real-time to reduce development time and costs.
Fast Paced Design Sprint
Proficient in leading design sprints to rapidly solve problems, design, prototype, and test new ideas within a structured process.
Recent Projects
Robot Startup
Project was about making a general platform for robot for construction site, delivery robot, server. With adjustable units, this was perfect for commercial applications.
It was really great working with Vivek on this project. They completed this in record time.
Julius Jacobi
Project Manager
Education & Work Experience
Certifications
AJ&Smart Company(Berlin)
Certified Design Sprint Master
2023 (2 Months)Innovation Management
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2023 (9 Months)Innovation Management (
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
2 MonthsUser Innovation & Entrepreneurship
MIT on Edx
3 MonthsEducation
BE in Computer Engineering
2012 - 2015
Government College of Engineering, ChandrapurDiploma In Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2010 - 2012PAST ROLES
Havells - Center for Research & Innovation (Bengaluru)
Lead Research Engineer
February 2023 - PresentHere I primarily drive sensor-based automation & Innovation projects spanning in emerging technologies.
This IS! Digital Media Group - Neoflux POD (Bengaluru)
R&D and Innovation Lead-Conv AI/IoT/Robotics/Blockchain/AR/VR (Emerging tech)
March 2021 - Dec 2023Helped TIDMG scale in India and manage R&D team from India for German Clients. Helped clients with MVP and Prototypes for validating and testing ideas.
Cognizant Technology Solutions (Bengaluru)
Tech Lead at Digital Technology Office Conv AI/IoT/Blockchain/Robotics/AR/VR
Sep 2016 - Mar 2021Worked with Fortune 500 clients to rapidly test and validate ideas in the emerging tech categories.
Lerema
Hardware Head
2015-2016Co-founded hardware startup with an international team and raised around $250,000 in grants for product development from Finland Oulu accelerator.
Part-time freelancer
Full stack Engineer
2012-2015I worked for multiple India-based organizations to develop prototypes in IoT & Web-apps to support my education.
My Skills
Some of my cross-functional skills that I have accumulated over the years.
JavaScript
Nodejs
Mongodb
Shapr3d
Python
Photoshop
XD
WordPress
Vscode
Solidity C
Unity
Azure
Testimonials
"We need more Engineers in these times. " .
Steve Wozniak
Apple Co-founderI know vivek since 6 years now. He is very natural with R&D and emerging technologies.
Varun Tiwari
Postdoctoral Researcher Khalifa UniversityWORKED WITH LARGEST KNOWN BRANDS
I'm currently avaliable to take on new projects, so feel free to send me a message about anything that you want to run past me.