About

Shakthi Vadakkepat is a branding expert, AI practitioner, machine learning engineer, tech analyst, blogger, and tech columnist with over 24 years of relevant experience. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Quill, an online portal that focuses on B2C and B2B technology. Shakthi has a proven ability to translate complex and divergent enterprise needs and available technological resources into innovative, high-impact solutions. He is a seasoned leader with a history of building highly successful global teams, developing new products and features, and ensuring delivery of projects within time, scope, and budget. Shakthi has extensive experience delivering sophisticated and revenue-generating business solutions that satisfy diverse technology requirements. He has exposure to both application and systems programming and has handled the entire gamut of operations at companies of multiple sizes and in multiple domains. Shakthi is a big believer in the power of branding and teaches people and companies how to create that reaction. He also mentors startups to become a successful brand. In his previous role as a social media and online brand strategy consultant, Shakthi helped people, celebrities, and companies establish a successful and profitable online presence and manage that presence in a way that they can optimize the experience and incorporate feedback to achieve online traction and sustain it. He has a robust, global social media management, monitoring, and analytics platform and has the edge needed to stay ahead of the competition. Shakthi has strong writing skills, geek out over traffic spikes, and proofread his own text messages. He is also a project manager, community builder, and team leader. Shakthi holds a post-graduate degree in software engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Madras. He also has a high school certification in computer science from Sindhi Model Senior Secondary School. Shakthi's tech stack includes ML, AI, software engineering, web, and PHP.