Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Udupi, Karnataka.
A civil engineer and an urban planner, he has hands-on experience in planning and designing for government infrastructure projects that involved hydraulic design of water supply schemes (under Jal Jeevan Mission) and wastewater projects (under AMRUT), with extensive research in STP technologies and preparing tenders, feasibility reports, DPRs, comparative analysis, financial statements, and compliance reports. Along with his master's, he also gained intermediate-level expertise in ARC GIS products and has certifications from the University of California, Davis, for the same. He also published a paper on electric vehicles and their viability with respect to climate change, whereas his thesis focused on the planning of electric vehicle charging infrastructure in the Indian context.