Nishigandha Palshikar Email & Phone Number

Passionate about building the most comprehensive curriculum for technology education for school and college students.· Built, trained and managed team of 17 educators for tutoring K-12 students online. · Designed & developed 300+ hours of curriculum for teaching coding to K-12 students. · Taught introductory coding program to 10000+ students online. · Trained 2000+ K-12 schoolteachers on “Teaching coding and mobile app development” in certification program co-developed with… Show more Passionate about building the most comprehensive curriculum for technology education for school and college students.· Built, trained and managed team of 17 educators for tutoring K-12 students online. · Designed & developed 300+ hours of curriculum for teaching coding to K-12 students. · Taught introductory coding program to 10000+ students online. · Trained 2000+ K-12 schoolteachers on “Teaching coding and mobile app development” in certification program co-developed with NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (Govt. of India) · Supported Engineering, Support and Sales team in customer interaction, marketing research and product roadmap. Show less

· Part time teaching engagement for undergraduate students about coding and mechatronics. · Designed and taught “Mechatronics for Design” and “Introductory Programming for Creators”. · Part of the faculty for FUSIP – Flame University Summer Immersion Program

Pune, India

· Solopreneur operating first-of-it’s-kind offline tutoring business to teach coding to K3-9 kids. · Grew annual revenue from zero to INR 40Lac (~$55K) with 60% profit margin. · Tutored 1000+ kids with a 95% retention rate during the year and 50% YoY renewals. · Conceptualized and organized only-of-it’s-kind project exhibition for technology creations by children with a footfall of 2000+ attendees covered by leading local media.

· Led expansion of family woodworking business from consultancy and print publication to develop India’s first online publishing platform for the global woodworking industry. · Acquired paid media partnerships to cover largest woodworking exhibitions around the world with footfalls between 150k to 400k people. These include Ligna (Germany), Interzum (Germany, China, Singapore), Domotex (China, Russia), IWF (USA), Salone Del Mobile (Italy), Technodomus (Italy) · Conducted and published… Show more · Led expansion of family woodworking business from consultancy and print publication to develop India’s first online publishing platform for the global woodworking industry. · Acquired paid media partnerships to cover largest woodworking exhibitions around the world with footfalls between 150k to 400k people. These include Ligna (Germany), Interzum (Germany, China, Singapore), Domotex (China, Russia), IWF (USA), Salone Del Mobile (Italy), Technodomus (Italy) · Conducted and published video and print interviews of CxOs of leading global companies like Blum (Germany), SCM Group (Italy). · Developed the publishing platform ground up using large scale CMS system like Drupal and custom PHP, HTML and CSS coding. Show less

· Worked as a developer and later a tech lead on Database Backup and Recovery platforms · Owned features like backup multiplexing, third party integration, unified service modelling. · Technologies include C++ & Java coding, Oracle & Sybase databases and CMDB platform. · Winner of BMC Star Award – given to top 100 employees amongst global headcount of 6500+