I help mid-career and senior professionals navigate job search, career growth, and workplace realities in an AI-disrupted world. 

I’ve delivered 500+ talks and built a community of 320,000+ professionals across LinkedIn and YouTube.

Here is my story:

After spending 20+ years in the IT industry, I realized something important:

Most career problems are not caused by lack of skill.
They are caused by lack of clarity, positioning, and strategy.

In Feb 2025, I quit my corporate role to focus full-time on career coaching and education, specifically around topics that are rarely taught in schools, colleges, or corporate training programs.

Things like:

How careers actually grow after 10, 15, or 20 years

Why good performers still get stuck

How job search really works at senior levels

How AI is quietly changing expectations inside roles

How visibility, perception, and power shape outcomes

My corporate journey included over two decades at a global IT services firm, where I worked closely with large enterprise clients and spent time in both India and the US. That experience strongly shapes how I look at careers, not as theory, but as lived reality.

Today, I work with professionals who want:

Better roles, not just role changes

Stronger positioning, not random applications

Career growth that is intentional, not accidental

I offer:

One-on-one career coaching

Group coaching programs

Practical guidance on job search, growth strategy, and career decision-making

I also share regular content here on:
Job search
Career growth
AI impact on careers
Workplace realities

If my work resonates, you can follow along or reach out.

Email: careertalk@anandvaishampayan.com

Free job search & career tips email list: https://go.anandvaishampayan.com

One-on-one coaching:
https://careertalk.mojo.page/one-on-one-career-consulting-with-anand

One-year group coaching program:
https://careertalk.mojo.page/gold-courses-coaching-offer-one-year

If you’ve read all the way till here, let’s connect.

People usually don’t explore profiles without a reason.
If something here felt relevant to where you are in your career, I’d be happy to help.

Anand Vaishampayan

Whiz Key (OPC) Pvt Ltd

•  Design, Develop and Manufacture IoT products
    o	Whiz NEST: A set of smart devices for smart home
    o	Whiz WATER: Smart Water management for housing societies / bunglows
    o	Ragbee: Gesture controlling devices for mobile apps and IoT devices
    o	Smart Street Lighting: Energy optimized smart street light device
•. Design, Develop and implement customised IoT solutions
    o	Robotic Automated Equipment Testing
    o	Machine Health Monitoring for higher OEE
    o	General Purpose Sensor Node for Remote Machine Monitoring
    o	EV Chargers for two wheelers

Director

Whiz Gizmo

•  Research, Design and Develop Prototypes
    o	Whiz WATT: Smart Energy Monitoring and Anomaly Detection of home appliances
    o	Whiz BIRD: Smart Agricultural Drone to identify infected plants and optimise pesticides spray
    o	Whiz BICYCLE: Plug-n-play electric bicycle kit

Founder & Director

Harbinger Systems

Harbinger Systems is a global company providing software technology services for independent software vendors and enterprises, with a specialization in product engineering. 
  Harbinger Systems builds software solutions leveraging social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) technologies for domains such as human capital management (HCM), healthcare, e-learning, and publishing. Harbinger Systems also uses emerging technologies like big data, OpenStack, and internet of things (IoT) to build products for tech startups.

Heading overall QA for Harbinger systems, providing guidance, direction to different QA teams. Analyse and identify improvement areas and implement quality measures. Build test automation frameworks for robust automation, enhance test coverage using code coverage tools, optimise test suites. Help sales teams in creating proposals, build solutions for new prospects.

General Manager - Quality

Zensar Technlogies Inc

Since Nov 2012, I am working at PPL, in Allentown. I am managing all the testing activities of Nuage Migration program. The program is aimed at migrating 350+ applications from physical data centre to PPL's private cloud.

Program Manager - PPL

Zensar Technologies Inc.

Working at Cisco, one of Zensar's major client, as part of QACC team. main responsibility is to provide testing services to Cisco for their different products for quarterly releases, and also manage offshore teams working on execution.

Program Manager - Cisco

Handling multiple Testing Projects, Pre-sales activities, managing Automation CoE, Building IP and solutions to suit customer requirements

Group Manager

Symphony Services

Managing Performance Testing CoE, building OpenSTA based tool to provide cost effective solution for Performance Testing, Coordinating deliveries of many small clients, building new IPs, performing Pre-sales activities

PQSL Practice Head

PTC Software

Designing, developing and maintaing complete automation suite for Optegra on all Unix and Windows platforms including localized versions of OPtegra. Completely managing Product certifications on all platforms.

Principle Engineer

DKTE's Textile & Engineering Institute

Teaching engineering undergraduate students, guiding BE projects

Lecturer in Computer Engineering

SIBER

Teaching Computer subjects- System Programming, Artificial Intelligence. Guiding projects

Lecturer in Computer Management

K & P Information Technologies (KPIT)

Sales, Support of PCB Designing Software - EazyRouter, Customization

Product Support Executive

An innovative entrepreneur, building IoT based products and solutions. Founded Whiz Key (OPC) Pvt Ltd in jan 2019 with the vision of solving complex problems with simple IoT solutions. Have built multiple products like Whiz NEST: A range of smart home devices to control home appliances through mobile app over internet, through Alexa over voice and over simple hand gestures over BLE using Ragbee (a gesture controlling device), Whiz WATER: A smart water management system to provide water levels of all the tanks on mobile app and also to control water pump along with information about incoming water, and its quality, Whiz COMPOST: A portable monitoring device for the process of wet waste into manure (compost). Whiz BICYCLE: An electrical bicycle kit to convert normal bicycle into electrical bicycle in plug-n-play way. Also developed many industrial automation solutions to perform Automated Equipment Testing using robot and IoT, Remote Health Monitoring of Industrial machines to provide predictive maintenance inputs, Testing Jigs for automated components testing, EV Chargers for electrical two wheelers, Sensor Nodes for collecting different machine parameters for quality monitoring etc.

Worked in IT industry for 25+ years, prior to becoming entrepreneur in variety of roles like Software Developer, Automation Engineer, Automation Architect, Technical Manager, Program Manager, Practice Head. Immensely contributed in all aspects of software quality - functional testing, performance engineering, test management, release management, code coverage analysis, RCA, etc.
 
Hobbyist and maker in exploring IoT applications using different micro controllers, sensors, communication modules, motors, valves, relays and accessories. Pledged more than 300 technology projects on kickstarter.com

Academically, did masters in Electronics Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli. Published 3 research papers in international conferences and 3 in national conferences. Worked as Lecturer in Computer Engineering and Computer Management for 5 years.

Played Table Tennis at state level, representing Sangli district for 3 years during 1983, 1984, 1985. Won numerous prizes in Table Tennis in Singles and Doubles at district level. Great lover of Hindi and Marathi film music between 1940s to 1970s. Voracious reader during school and college days. 

My vision is to empower human beings with technologies to simplify and enrich their lives, and create as many jobs as possible.

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