GAIL India Ltd (India's leading natural gas infrastructure company) | Vijaipur

Manager - Operations & Maintenance

• Directed root-cause analysis and preventive/corrective maintenance programs across 11 vendor contracts and 900+ annual work orders at Asia's largest gas compressor station, improving asset reliability and generating savings exceeding ₹10 crore per year.
• Architected system design for a ₹30 crore Central Historian and Enterprise Operations Dashboard spanning 8 compressor stations and ~55,000 process tags, enabling real-time KPI and performance metrics tracking, and advancing data-lake integration, analytics, and OT-IT convergence across plant operations.
• Delivered control system design for a ₹20 crore gas turbine electrification project, achieving first-attempt startup and avoiding downtime losses of over ₹1 crore across plant operations.
• Led a ₹50+ crore control system upgrade spanning 14 PLCs and 12 gas turbines, enhancing operational performance, system availability, and plant-wide reliability across compressor operations.
• Improved operational excellence by leading 4 zero-cost initiatives, automating 2 daily KPI reports, saving 100+ man-hours/month, increasing energy accounting reliability by over 20%, and avoiding ~₹15 lakh in costs.

Executive Trainee - Operations & Maintenance

• Commissioned a lean amine feed pump in a live plant environment with zero downtime, coordinating 30+ contract personnel across multiple cross-functional teams under strict safety protocols.
• Designed a gas flow reconciliation framework for a GPU plant processing ~21 MMSCMD (~₹2 crore/day), improving process accountability, loss identification, and audit accuracy across operations.
• Led critical maintenance execution with cross-functional collaboration during planned shutdowns, including valve overhauls, instrument modifications, and safety valve calibrations, completing all activities within a one-month shutdown window.
• Conducted root-cause analyses on critical rotating and process equipment, including Siemens gas turbines, Elliott-Ebara expander compressors, KEPL amine pumps, Thermax boilers, and Yokogawa DCS systems, coordinating with OEM teams to sustain high equipment availability.
• Participated in IT/OT cybersecurity audits with external agencies, identifying network vulnerabilities and driving remediation across plant operational systems and infrastructure.

Bechtel India Pvt. Ltd. (Engineering, procurement, and construction solutions provider) | Gurugram

Graduate Engineering Trainee - Control Systems

• Reviewed 250+ P&ID drawings across multiple projects to develop instrument indices, cause-and-effect matrices, and HAZOP/LOPA documentation, supporting design accuracy and regulatory compliance.
• Delivered design and engineering support for ₹100+ crore of cross-functional projects, ensuring timely delivery of instrumentation documentation and system designs.
• Automated instrument-index workflows using Excel-based tools integrated with SPIndex, improving documentation efficiency by 20%.
• Applied SP3D design tools for optical fibre routing and cable estimation, improving layout accuracy and reducing rework risk by 15%.

• Achieved All India Rank – 13 in GATE 2021 exam
• Received Letter of Appreciation from Director (Finance) for field level contribution to SAP-HANA implementation.
• Received Letter of Appreciation from ED (O&M) for leading control system development and successful commissioning support for a ₹20 crore gas turbine electrification project and successful startup at first attempt.
• Received Appreciation from CGM (O&M) for conceptualizing and delivering in-house digital transformation initiatives relating to Utility Dashboards that enhanced operational transparency, data integrity and decision making.

• Bachelor of Engineering (Instrumentation & Control) – Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, Delhi| India

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, KPMG
• OT Cybersecurity, NFSU

• Social Cell Head - Media & Marketing Team at IIM Ahmedabad
• Editor in Chief – Internal Departmental Magazine – Presented to Director (Projects)
• YouTube Channel Manager – 700K+ views & 130K+ watch hours – 33%+ average viewer retention on long-form content.