Sandeep Tonapi is the Founder and CEO of Anveshak Technology and Knowledge Solutions.
Prior to starting Anveshak Sandeep worked at GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York
(2001-2006) and GE Healthcare in Phoenix, Arizona (2006-2008) where he held multiple technical
and leadership roles. Sandeep is a co-inventor on 30 patents (granted and/or published), is a
co-author on over 50 papers (journals and refereed conference proceedings) and over 25 invited
presentations. Sandeep has received numerous awards during his career including the ASME K16
Clock Award for outstanding and continued contributions to the science and engineering of heat
transfer in electronics, Whitney Award for Technical Excellence, Patent Bronze, Silver and Gold
Medallions. He was a part of the Six Sigma core instructor team at GE. Sandeep has collaborated
closely with multiple universities and served on 4 doctoral dissertation committees at Georgia
Institute of Technology and Binghamton University.
Sandeep has served in leadership roles in ASME Electronic and Photonic Packaging Division (EPPD)
and IEEE CPMT Society. He serves on the advisory committee of ASME InterPACK and IEEE ITherm
conferences. He has served on the executive committee of ASME EPPD (2005-2010). Sandeep is a
Fellow of ASME and a Senior Member of IEEE. He completed his undergraduate education from
University of Pune and MS (1998) and PhD (2001) in Industrial Engineering from Binghamton
University - State University of New York where his dissertation received the Distinguished
Dissertation Award. He was also the recipient of the University Award for Student Excellence.
Shiwani Thakur is Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at
Anveshak Technology and Knowledge Solutions. She is based in Pune and in this role, she is
responsible for all the operations of India offices. Shiwani joined Anveshak in 2010 after
completing her BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology
(VIT) Pune. She started her career as a Design Engineer and was quickly promoted to successive
leadership roles. She works on developing best in class HR policies to make Anveshak the best
place to work. She was also instrumental in diversifying the portfolio of Anveshak and driving
the growth of Anveshak in the IT Products and Services vertical. She served as the first manager
of the Software Development group and defined the vision and strategy for this line of business.
She continues to drive the growth strategy in this market segment. Shiwani is the liaison for
Anveshak's collaboration efforts with universities in the US.
Shashank Thakur is the Program Manager for the Education Vertical and Information
Technology (IT) Services. In this role, Shashank is responsible for coordinating all the
projects that come under these verticals. This includes all the phases of software life cycle
development from requirement analysis to customer delivery and maintenance. Under the education
vertical, Shashank is driving the efforts for www.myedubuddy.com, a high impact product
developed by Anveshak. Shashank also interfaces with key customers for whom Anveshak provides
offshore development services. Shashank completed his undergraduate education in Computer
Science from University of Pune and worked in Software Testing for a few years before joining
Anveshak in 2015. In addition to working as a Software Engineer and Program Manager, Shashank
enjoys teaching and working with school children. He teaches Physics to high school students on
weekends.
Aishwarya Dhopate is Program / Account Manager delivering world class technology solutions
to our customers in the USA. After completing her BE in Information Technology from Shivaji
University, Aishwarya joined Anveshak in August 2015 as a software engineer. Her areas of
technical expertise include PHP, WordPress, JAVA, and Angularjs. As a Program/Account Manager,
Aishwarya is the interface with multiple clients and manages the technical team in Pune ensuring
on-time and quality delivery.