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Squadron Leader (Retd.) | Aeronautical Engineer @ Collins Aerospace | Airworthiness, Avionics, Fleet Sustainment & MRO | Building safer, smarter aviation products

About

I aim to help aerospace teams build products that actually work in the cockpit or support the work happening in one — because I've maintained, tested and certified them at 15,000 feet. I am a Product Owner at Collins Aerospace. I am a Squadron Leader(Retd.) from the Indian Air Force, where I spent a decade as an Aeronautical Engineer on rotary and fixed-wing platforms (Mi-17 V5, ALH Dhruv, Chetak/Cheetah). I've led cross-functional engineering teams of 100+, managed multi-crore maintenance budgets, conducted root cause analysis programmes with flight testing for unserviceable aircrafts and investigated aircraft accidents — work where the margin for error is zero. After completing Business Management Programme at IIM Ahmedabad, I transitioned to civilian aerospace product management. I now bring three things to the table that are rare in combination: • Deep aviation domain expertise — aircraft systems, avionics, weapons, MRO, flight test, airworthiness • Product & agile fluency — SAFe® POPM, CSPO, business analysis, data visualization (Power BI, Tableau) • Operational leadership under pressure — strategic planning, risk management, crisis response, stakeholder alignment across military, OEM and regulatory bodies What I'm exploring next: Senior Product Manager, Technical Program Manager or Aerospace Engineering leadership roles with aviation OEMs, MRO operators, eVTOL/UAM innovators or defence primes in India, UK, EU or US. Open to relocation.

Location

India

AI stack

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Work experience

Product Owner at Collins Aerospace, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 y 4 mo, Bengaluru, • Own end-to-end delivery of a management analytics platform for Collins Aerospace manufacturing site. • Translate manufacturing and supply chain needs into prioritized listings for scrum teams on a SAFe PI cadence.

Student at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Feb 2024 - Aug 2024 · 7 mos, Ahmedabad, Business Management Programme

Volunteer at Robin Hood Army, Oct 2023 - Feb 2024 · 5 mos, Shimla

Senior Technical Programme Manager at Indian Air Force, Apr 2023 - Sep 2023 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, • Managed technical programmes and competitive bids across engineering, operations and commercial stakeholders — secured contract awards and on-time delivery. • Drove root-cause analysis on accident investigations, translating findings into fleet-wide corrective actions.

Flight Test Engineer Trainee at Indian Air Force, Jun 2022 - Mar 2023 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, • Selected for ASTE's elite Flight Test Engineer programme — India's apex aircraft and systems certification establishment. • Planned and executed test sorties on modified aircraft, evaluating performance and stability across the operating envelope. • Analysed flight data using MATLAB and Python, generating insights that drove system refinements. • Presented findings to engineering teams and senior leadership.

Senior Engineering Officer at Indian Air Force, Sep 2018 - May 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos, Assam, India, • Digitized maintenance planning and migrated legacy processes to ERP, cutting manual workload by 80%. • Led maintenance, QA and safety for a ₹800+ crore (~$95M) rotary-wing fleet across 15+ sites — • Led cross-functional teams during operational exercises — 100% aircraft availability under tight timelines. 20,000+ flying hours in total. • Conducted 100+ audits and accident investigations; corrective actions cut fleet downtime by 20%. • Negotiated with domestic and global OEMs on indigenization programs, reducing foreign supplier dependency by 30%. • Introduced RFID tracking and ERP workflows, improving maintenance efficiency by 40%.

Engineering Manager at Indian Air Force (IAF), May 2013 - Aug 2018 · 5 y 3 mo, Mumbai

Intern at Escorts Limited-Construction Equipment, May 2012 - Jul 2012 · 3 mos, Delhi, India

Education

Business Management Programme, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Hamirpur