About

Rajavel Udayakumar is a multi-faceted professional with over 10 years of experience in living, studying, and working in international environments across Europe, the US, and the Asia-Pacific region. He has extensive industry experience in strategy and business development across programming, user interface designing and developing, and mobile application development, as well as resource mobilization and strategic partnership building. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Engineering while conducting research on cross-sector collaboration in international development, new hybrid business models, and multi-stakeholder sustainability programs that deliver significant commercial and stakeholder value. Rajavel is interested in joining a values-driven organization with the potential to thrive and have maximum impact. His specific industries of interest are FMCG, Technology, Energy, Pharmaceuticals, Management Consulting, as well as international organizations working at the nexus of the sectors. Rajavel's specialties include building bridges between people and organizations, collective impact and shared value strategies, public-private partnerships, project management, negotiation, corporate social responsibility, emerging markets, key account management, business development, resource mobilization, and marketing and communication. Currently, Rajavel is working as an Engineering Manager at Byju's, where he is responsible for the development and delivery of new product introduction for BYJU’s student engagement. He manages workload, employee professional development, technology leadership, strategy planning and reporting, and engineering execution. He has also defined and streamlined the support process for the product lines by defining detailed process steps. In the past, Rajavel has worked as a Technical Lead at Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab Private Limited and a Senior Software Engineer at FortuneCode. At Honeywell, he handled offshore teams in migration of VB6 code to the latest stack, implemented proof of concept to validate broker selection, cloud concepts, architecture, and requirements, and worked on new RFC’s cycle time improvement by 20%. At FortuneCode, he worked on creating Azure Blob for storing unstructured data in the cloud as blobs, developed Restful services in NodeJS and ExpressJS, and implemented payment gateway API and security aspects with respect to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter as per their policies. Rajavel's education history includes a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology, a Higher Secondary Certificate in Computer Science from K.V.S. Higher Secondary School, and a Secondary School Leaving Certificate in Mathematics and Computer Science from K.V.S. Higher Secondary School. He has