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Solving product delays early-stage startups face trying to hire expensive Sr. Designers.

Salil Bajaj

Iravan

Director

Skye Air Mobility

Head of UTM

Navifly

I started off Navifly to solve a problem that was connecting manned & unmanned aerial systems onto one network, thus managing/ organising the airspace, enabling drones to receive permissions within seconds and as a result, increasing the traffic capacity of the airspace. 

Upon ideation, I rallied a team together consisting of the best minds in our university and worked towards an MVP.  Within 3 months we raised funds from Boeing, Irish Aviation Authority. For the next year we developed NaviATC, while testing with customers, regulators and constantly evolved the product in the process of receiving customer feedback and in-team discussions. I ensure a perfect balance of market and technology, to maintain costs and effort invested into the product.

The product we built is called: NaviATC. It is a Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) platform that is a zero-latency aviation systems that connects regulators, drones, pilots and other stakeholders.

My Product execution:

1. Drafted product requirements by scanning through multiple research papers/ market studies on drone platforms, traffic management products/ services in commercial manned aviation and competitor analysis. Aggregated all requirements and hired the workforce that would execute these requirements.

2. Focused on a zero latency foundation of our system based off NoSQL, Node.JS backend, auto scaling, all cloud architecture allowed us to build a powerful, reliable, agile product.

3. This product competes with companies engaging 50+ employees and $4+ mil in funding. We have rather kept our teams lean and effective, building a equally competent product at a much lower cost. Cost being an important factor in the price conscious UAV market.

4. We launched the first 3-Dimensional airspace operations and regulations mapping servers which updated the airspace status, verified paths, displayed UAV movements in real time. This is a giant leap over slow, 2 D, not-real-time, high latency offerings from competitors.

Chief Executive Officer

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Research paper on Drone management platforms, it's past, current and future potential.

Drone Management Platforms: The future of Urban Air Mobility

BAEROS

Aircraft chassis design, UAV electronics and development. Worked with equipment and certifications.

Team lead/Co-founder

BlackHawks Motorsports

Designed, Fabricated and Raced All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) at SAE BAJA.

Vice Captain

Conversion of an IC Engine Vehicle to Electric

The project was about the in-depth construction and analysis of a super capacitor circuit and stresses on why and how supercapacitors could replace lithium ion batteries in the coming future.

Analysis of Supercapacitor circuit to replace Lithium ion batteries

Bosch

Work on automation in various fields and it's vendors.

Automation Engineer

Yashodhan is a Project architect, who executes in operational, technical and business domains. He has established a Drone aviation startup: Navifly from scratch, building teams, launching products beginning from MVP to hard launching the product in India and Ireland, raising funds from Irish Aviation Authority and Boeing. He built Navifly on a balance of Technology, Culture and People.

At core, Yashodhan has a deep understanding of technology coupled with a deep understanding of the customer. He understands their needs and focuses on building: 'low friction, highly functional and great to look at' products.

He is a mechanical engineer whose passion lies in anything that flies, drives or floats. His previous experience is in working on drone electronics, researching on Super-capacitors and conversion of IC engine cars to electric. He plays squash and enjoys trekking when he is not working.

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Salil Bajaj

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