Nikhith Harish Kumar Punna

Nikhith Harish Kumar Punna is a seasoned manufacturing engineer currently employed at Carrier HVAC since October 2023. Previously, Nikhith worked as a project manager in continuous improvement at The Kraft Heinz Company from May 2023 to September 2023, and served as a quality engineer at NYX Inc. from August 2022 to December 2022. Nikhith also has experience as a process engineer at Fancymonk from July 2019 to June 2021, and as a subject matter expert at Toppr from November 2016 to January 2019. Additional experience includes an engineering internship at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in August 2018, and a quality engineering internship at the Defence Research and Development Organisation from May 2017 to July 2017. Nikhith holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Michigan (September 2021 - April 2023), a Master of Technology in Manufacturing Engineering from JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad (June 2018 - June 2019), and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution (September 2014 - April 2018).