About

I trained as an environmental engineer and started in quality. At Raj Innotech in Rajkot nothing left the factory until I had inspected it, and the record had to match what was actually built. That is still most of the job, in a different setting.

After a BTech at Gujarat Technological University I came to the UK in 2021 for an MSc in Environmental Management at Hertfordshire, and stayed. At Isatec in London the measurement became the job rather than the input to it: thermal and humidity mapping, monitoring systems installed and commissioned, IQ/OQ/PQ protocols run so a client could show a regulator the installation does what it claims.

Quoting came with that territory, and I found I preferred the jobs where I had done both halves. At Ramcare the title now says both. I calibrate, validate and write the procedures, one per parameter, and as the sales engineer I consult on, quote and specify the temperature monitoring systems clients buy, then explain the certificates when they come back.

The idea I come back to most is traceability. A reading is only as good as the unbroken chain behind it:

1. The kelvin, defined by a fixed value of the Boltzmann constant
2. The national standard, held by NPL
3. An accredited reference, calibrated against it
4. A working standard, the probe I carry on site
5. Your instrument, calibrated against that

There’s also something I’m building with AI. I’ll say more when it’s ready.

Outside work it is football, chess, gaming and whatever book is on the go, which at the moment is To Sell Is Human.