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Niranjan I Naragund

Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco CX (Customer Experience) | Co-founder GetZedPay
Mysore,Karnataka

Summary

A self-motivated curious Engineer passionate about entrepreneurship, stock market research and investment. An avid reader and researcher of current Indian startup ecosystem and their business models. Consulting Engineer trained to work in high stress environments and assist reputed customers regarding network security by developing high quality documents consisting of charts, graphs, vulnerabilities, and security recommendations. Seeking to leverage my technical and managerial skills to help with their upcoming investments.

Overview

4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Co-Founder

GetZedPay
Mysore, Karnataka
09.2020 - 05.2021
  • Thoroughly investigated UPI payment architecture from various research papers (especially from those written by IIT professor Ashish Das), various newspaper articles and publicly available information in the NPCI website.
  • Addressed business development challenges to proactively mitigate problems.
  • Met officials from leading banks in India for the UPI 2.0 integration to our application.
  • Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
  • Worked relentlessly on company presentations and detailed documents explaining the niche of the businesses.
  • Devised and deployed sales and marketing tactics to drive strategic growth and support achievement of revenue goals.
  • Stayed current with market trends to determine optimal pricing of goods and services and to capitalize on emerging opportunities.
  • Pitched Idea to various company officials, worked relentlessly on the feedback and helped in improvement of the product.

Network Consulting Engineer

Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka
01.2020 - Current
  • Conducted security assessments of 40+ reputed customers and made recommendations for potential attacks and device vulnerabilities.
  • Provided detailed technical documentation, including network diagrams, process flow charts and procedural guidelines using Microsoft Excel and Word.
  • Demonstrated strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in high stress environments.
  • Worked closely with automation projects using Python for both internal and external use.

Intern

Indian Space Research Organisation
Bengaluru, Karnataka
08.2019 - 04.2020
  • As a part of final year project, assisted the ' Controls and Digital communication' team with a specific communication requirement intended to be used in the upcoming 'Gaganyaan mission'.

Technical Support Intern

Mrist Labs (Start-up)
Mysore, Karnataka
07.2018 - 12.2018
  • Worked closely with senior staff of the start-up incubated in college's incubation centre to learn on the technical requirements of the product that was being built.
  • Assisted the technical head in product development and testing of the MVP.
  • Helped in market research and customer feedback of potential users and reiterated on the product features.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
Mysore, Karnataka
08.2016 - 05.2020

Skills

Critical thinking

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Accomplishments

1. Core team member- Institution's Innovation council

  • Headed the planning committee of a 24 hours-State level Hardware and Software hackathon. Brought in NOKIA as sponsors and assisted in the overall management of the event including event advertising via print and social media, food and stay arrangements, wifi credentials, valedictory function etc for nearly 250 participants.

2.Patent

  • Title: 'A RFID TRANSACTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING AND ACCOUNTING A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION WITHOUT AN ACTIVE INTERNET CONNECTION'
  • Application number: in 201941031689

3. IEEE Paper

  • Title: 'Programmable Delay and Variable Bit Rate Enabled Video Streaming using C++'

Hobbies

  • Stock market Investing
  • Trekking
  • Reading Non-fiction books
  • Analyzing new age startups
  • Understanding modern day economics
  • Gardening

Timeline

Co-Founder

GetZedPay
09.2020 - 05.2021

Network Consulting Engineer

Cisco
01.2020 - Current

Intern

Indian Space Research Organisation
08.2019 - 04.2020

Technical Support Intern

Mrist Labs (Start-up)
07.2018 - 12.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY
08.2016 - 05.2020
Niranjan I NaragundNetwork Consulting Engineer, Cisco CX (Customer Experience) | Co-founder GetZedPay