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Chemical Engineer | Battery Technology + Industrial Coatings R&D | Data Analysis | Quality & Process Scale-Up | 4+ Years Turning Lab Results into Production Reality

About

I'll be honest — I never planned to end up working in two completely different industries at the same time. But that's exactly what happened. And looking back, I wouldn't change a thing. I'm a Chemical Engineer with 4+ years of experience — and my career has taken me through two worlds that don't often overlap: industrial paints & coatings and next-generation battery technology. Not one after the other. Both, deeply, hands-on. My foundation was built at a paint manufacturing company where I learned what it actually means to develop a product — not on paper, not in a presentation, but in a lab with raw materials in front of you and a production deadline behind you. I worked on epoxy, PU, enamel, alkyd, NC, emulsion, and primer systems — building formulations from scratch, optimizing every variable, and then personally walking them onto a production floor to see if they actually held up. Sometimes they did. Sometimes they didn't. Either way, I learned something. That gap between a formula that works in a beaker and a batch that works at scale? I've lived in that gap for years. I know it intimately. Then came the battery startup. And honestly — it changed how I think about materials entirely. Working on Al-Air battery technology pushed me into territory I'd never explored — cathode and anode slurry formulation, electrode coating processes, electrochemical testing (EIS, CV, LSV), pre-pilot scale-up. The problems were harder. The stakes were higher. And there was no playbook to follow. On top of the R&D, I rebuilt the quality system from the ground up — restructuring how we tested incoming materials, monitored in-process stages, and signed off on finished components. The result was a 30–55% reduction in testing costswithout dropping a single quality bar. I also took on something I hadn't expected — managing vendor development across China. Cold outreach, technical evaluations, commercial negotiations, NDA finalization. All of it, independently. I want to understand the whole picture — from the chemistry behind a formulation to the operational reality of producing it at scale. I use Advanced Excel, Power BI, and Python not because they look good on a resume, but because data genuinely helps me make better decisions faster. What I'm looking for now is a team that's building something meaningful — in energy storage, advanced materials, or industrial coatings — where the problems are real, the pace is fast, and the work actually matters. If that sounds like your team — I'd genuinely love to connect. 📩 shivshankarbsr@gmail.com 📱 +91-8178785128

Location

New Delhi

Work experience

Senior Engineer - Projects | Battery Technology R&D & Quality at Chakr Innovation, Feb 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, At Chakr Innovation, I operate at the intersection of cutting-edge battery R&D and high-stakes project delivery. On the Battery side, I worked in material development for Al-Air Battery technology — one of the most promising next-gen energy storage platforms in development today. I don't just run experiments; I worked on experiments from scratch, push them through characterization (FTIR, SEM, ICP-OES, DSC, NMR), stress-test them electrochemically (EIS, CV, LSV), and own the process all the way to pre-pilot scale-up. On the Quality side, I didn't just manage a system — I rebuilt one: 🔹 Raw material test costs cut by 30% 🔹 Incoming QC tests reduced by 40% 🔹 In-process QC tests slashed by 55% — all without compromising a single quality standard. On the Vendor side, I went international — sourcing and onboarding battery systems, components & testing vendors across China. From cold outreach to NDA finalization, technical evaluation, commercial negotiation, and full onboarding — I ran it end to end. On the Projects side, I delivered Anti-Smog Gun systems from zero — system design, procurement, installation, commissioning — with every project signed off by the client, on time, within cost. What this place taught me: Speed without precision kills R&D. Precision without speed kills business. I learned to hold both. Core technologies I work with here: Al-Air Battery · Cathode & Anode Slurry Formulation · EIS / CV / LSV · FTIR / SEM / ICP-OES · Quality Systems · 5S & Kaizen · Vendor Development (China) · Project Commissioning · Power BI · Advanced Excel

Senior Technical Officer – R&D, Quality & Production at Rely Paints, Apr 2023 - Feb 2024 · 11 mos, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Rely Paints wasn't a corporate giant with systems already in place. It was a real industrial environment — fast, demanding, and unforgiving — where if you couldn't solve it, it didn't get solved. And that pressure built everything I am today. R&D — I developed formulations across 10+ coating categories (PU, epoxy, NC, alkyd, emulsion, heat-resistant, metallic) from raw material selection to performance-validated product. Every formula survived viscosity, salt spray, DFT/WFT, abrasion, and weathering — not just in the lab, but under live production conditions. Production — I lived on that floor. Pre-production checks, in-process monitoring, batch sign-off before every dispatch. When batches went sideways — and they always do — I walked to the tank, diagnosed it, and fixed it. No meetings. No delays. That's what production teaches you — not theory. Instinct. Quality — Incoming material qualification, in-process control, finished goods testing, and RCA on every customer complaint. Not just finding what went wrong — finding why. And making sure it never happened again. Scale-Up — I owned the lab-to-plant bridge. Shade consistency, viscosity control, batch reproducibility — across every run, every season. Quality isn't a department. It's a discipline. Production isn't a process. It's a war you fight fresh every day. Core technologies & skills built here: Industrial Coatings R&D · PU / Epoxy / Alkyd / Emulsion / NC Paints · Lab-to-Plant Scale-Up · Live Production Management · Batch Process Optimization · In-Process Quality Control · Salt Spray & Weathering Testing · Raw Material Qualification · ISO / BIS Compliance · Root Cause Analysis · Viscosity & Rheology Control · Color Matching & Shade Consistency · Vendor Evaluation.

Technical Officer at Rely Paints, Jan 2021 - Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Delhi, Delhi, India

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Chemical Engineering, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University