Vijay Prabu Sivakumar

Vijay Prabu Sivakumar

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Product Intern @ Adobe | IIM Ahmedabad PGP'25 | Founder @ Merreo | PSG Tech'20

  • Education

    • SRM Nightingale Matriculation higher secondary school

      2003 - 2016
      High School Sciences +2

      Activities and Societies: school projects, inter-school science expo team, industrial visits. • Actively participated in and won various Science quizzes, Project exhibitions, Science challenges• Participated and Ranked in several Olympiads, up to state level• Awarded for exemplary results in Class XII Board Examinations

    • Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

      2023 - 2025
      PGP in Management
    • PSG College of Technology

      2016 - 2020
      Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Automotive Engineering Technology CGPA - 8.85

      Activities and Societies: Pegasus Racing, SAE Collegiate Chapter • B.E Automobile Engineering - CGPA 8.85 - First Class with Distinction• Actively involved in various teams/groups in the curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular spheres (major ones listed in work experience)• Appointed for leadership in Pegasus Racing (Formula Student team) and SAE Collegiate Chapter• Active participant in college and hostel affairs

  • Experience

    • Pegasus Racing - PSG TECH

      Nov 2016 - Mar 2020

      • Selected to lead the 40 members strong team• Setting the Technical & Strategic direction of the Project and making major decisions regarding them.• Attained a weight reduction of 14% (from 207 Kg to 178 Kg) and much better vehicle dynamic characteristics with a modest budget of 340,000₹ in 2020. • Achieved 7th overall (Best result by our team ever) with an even more tenuous budget of 250,000₹ in 2019 Formula Bharat – most competitive teams outspend us by 6 times. • Was instrumental in creating a strong culture in the team and reducing annual turnover from 85% to 28% to 21%• Majorly in charge of managing the technical decisions, car development, and manufacturing• Recruited students and ensured transfer of knowledge amidst the team Show less

      • Team Leader

        Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
      • Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

        Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
    • SAE collegiate club, PSGTECH

      Sept 2018 - Feb 2020
      Chairman

      • Managing team of 15 people to conduct Events, Seminars and, Workshops in our Department.

    • Merreo

      Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
      Founder

      Merreo is a DPIIT recognized startup based in Chennai, founded by alumni from PSG College of technology, and is supported by IIM-Bangalore NSRCEL. Merreo is built on the idea of democratizing advanced holistic hiring methodology for all companies to make hiring decisions better and more informed. Multi-measure Assessments are easily the most correlative measure for screening candidates for a job and those tests today are inaccessible to most companies. We want to break that so that all companies can get the chance to hire the best candidates they can, and by extension grow as fast as they can.• Started as a "Talent Bank" for mechanical and allied stream graduates, now pivoted to talent assessment space •Selected for and participated in the IIM-Bangalore flagship start-up pre-incubation program “Launchpad” as one of 22 companies out of over 550 applicants• Networked, pitched, conducted market research, and early product research with over 30 top hardware entrepreneurs in India• Managed and Developed the product, methodology, and strategy of Merreo Show less

    • NSRCEL

      Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
      IIM-Bangalore NSRCEL Launchpad - Pre-Incubatee
    • Adobe

      Apr 2024 - May 2024
      Product Management Intern
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Design Sketching

      Udemy
    • Entrepreneurship 2

      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign| Coursera
      Apr 2020
    • Systems Engineering

      NPTEL
    • Entrepreneurship 101

      MITx on edX
      May 2021
    • Entrepreneurship 1

      University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign| Coursera
      Apr 2020
    • Electric vehicles

      NPTEL
    • Launchpad - Startup Pre-Incubation

      Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
      Feb 2022
    • Light weight engineering

      RWTH Aachen University
      Feb 2020
    • Jagriti Digital Yatra

      Jagriti Yatra
      Dec 2021
    • 6.00.1 Computational Thinking and Programming using Python

      MITx on edX
      Oct 2021
    • Game Theory

      Stanford Online
      May 2021
    • Y Combinator Founder's program

      Startup School Online
      Nov 2021
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Mentor

      Issued by Pegasus Racing - PSG Tech on Mar 2020
      Pegasus Racing - PSG TechAssociated with Vijay Prabu Sivakumar
    • Member

      Issued by Entrepreuners Club PSG Tech on Jun 2016
      Entrepreuners Club PSG TechAssociated with Vijay Prabu Sivakumar