Vijay Prabu Sivakumar

Experience

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  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
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  SAE collegiate club, PSGTECH

  Sept 2018 - Feb 2020

  Chairman

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

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  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

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  NSRCEL

  Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  IIM-Bangalore NSRCEL Launchpad - Pre-Incubatee
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  Adobe

  Apr 2024 - May 2024

  Product Management Intern