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title: "Abhiraj Tapar - Senior Associate - Projects in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Abhiraj Tapar on Tal

## Headline

Cognizant \(2022 \- Present\) \| IIM Udaipur \(MBA 2020\-22\) \| Strategy Intern, BeSaathi \| Chief of Staff Intern, Orangewood Labs

## About

🔹 Functional Consultant with 4 years of experience in the Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Consumer Durables, Automotive and Education sectors\. 🔹 Adept at leading requirement workshops, capturing requirements in User Stories, and maintaining them throughout the application development cycle\. 🔹 Proven track record of working cross\-functionally on sprint planning, defect triaging, and handling feedback cycles\. 🔹 Technical Proficiency: Litify, Salesforce Service Cloud, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Automotive Cloud BeSaathi \(Fintech Startup\): Product Strategy, Operations, driving key initiatives\. Orangewood Labs \(YCombinator W’18\): Interned as Chief of Staff, supporting strategic decisions\. Tapar Investments: Associate, contributing to investment analysis and decision\-making\. Professional Highlights: Led multiple high\-impact requirement workshops and ensured seamless application development throughout lifecycle\. Collaborated with cross\-functional teams to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness\. Successfully delivered innovative solutions for a variety of industries\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Senior Associate \- Projects at Cognizant, May 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Innovation Specialist at beSaathi, Nov 2021 \- Apr 2022 · 5 mo, India

Chief Of Staff at Orangewood Labs \(Y Combinator W18\), Apr 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 2 mo, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, Human Resources: Facilitated hiring process\(shortlisting, HR interviews\) and payroll for twenty interns, four live projects Managed live projects for Market Research and Financial Modelling with IIT Roorkee & IIMU MBA students Supported technical team intern requirements across Mechanical, Computer Vision, Mechatronics, ROS Finance Raised 4,50,000 INR for company through revolving credit from Kodo Pvt Ltd and started talks with 9 lenders Pre\-sales: Delivered demos for Cobots worth 12\-15 lakhs to 40 potential clients and collaborators, MIT and 7 professors E\-mail Campaign Ran an e\-mail campaign where we reached out to 200\+ colleges with demonstration conversion rate of 5% Management Mentored 4 projects on Market Research, Financial Modelling\(sensitivity analysis\) & Ecosystem Mapping Community Management Strategized about creating and managing an online community and publicizing via Clubhouse & Twitter Market Diversification: Suggested Cyber\-Physical Systems such as IITs/NITs as new segment which would increase sales Grant Proposal Worked on Sales and Financial projections and a presentation for a Grant proposal for Forge incubator

Chief of Staff at Orangewood Labs \(Y Combinator W18\), Jan 2021 \- Apr 2021 · 3 mo, Delhi, India, Executed ad\-hoc tasks for the founders\.

Associate at Tapar Investments, Jul 2018 \- Aug 2019 · 1 y 1 mo, Maharashtra, India

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Indian Institute of Management Udaipur

Engineer's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, MIT COE

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