Shivanand Desai Gaonkar

Shivanand Desai Gaonkar is a Senior Engineer at POWR2 since April 2022, focusing on the design and validation of low-voltage, medium-powered Bidirectional Power Systems for both On-Grid and Off-Grid integrations. Prior experience includes working as an Engineer at Power Grid Corporation Of India Limited from December 2020 to June 2022, where responsibilities involved IoT deployment, machine learning implementation on Smart Grid Networks, and testing relay and protection systems. Shivanand also served as an Electronics Hardware Engineer at Eaton from August 2018 to December 2020, specializing in the hardware design of medium voltage products and communication systems related to voltage regulation and protection relays. Academic qualifications include a Master of Technology in Command & Control Systems from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Goa.