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title: "Shiv Shankar - Senior Engineer - Projects | Battery Technology R&D & Quality in New Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Shiv Shankar, Chemical Engineer | Battery Technology + Industrial Coatings R&D | Data Analysis | Quality & Process Scale-Up | 4+ Years Turning Lab Results into Production Reality based in New Delhi."
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# Shiv Shankar on Tal

## Headline

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

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