Indravadan Gajjar is a pioneer in product design. As a materials and manufacturing process expert he is a guru of product design from efficiency, user-friendliness and reliability point of view. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Delhi University, Delhi, India in 1979. His professional career spans 40 years in the field of product design where he has designed many electro-mechanical products using materials from Plastic, Rubber, ABS, Steel, Aluminum, Multi-PVC, Polymer, HIPS to Reinforced Carbon-Fiber.
He started his career working as a Project in-charge at Pragati Medan, New Delhi for Gujarat Export Corporation in 1981. At the prime of his career he joined one of the most prestigious product design company Golden Triangle in Ahmedabad, as Assistant Product Designer to serve a career spanning 10 years.
He then moved on to work as a Senior Product Designer and a Technical Consultant at GELCO Pvt. Ltd, Ahmedabad for 16 amazing years designing 200+ products. In 2004 he started his own consultancy and product designing company – TECHART, where he has been working very closely with OEM companies like Cimcon Software, Reve Automation, Teksun, OCLEG, Secure Meters, GELCO, ELLICO, Rapid Radio, Meditab, Missar India, ONGC, Robokits India, Jaydeep Electronics just to name a few.
He has also worked on projects as mentor or lead for National Institute of Design (NID), National Innovation Foundation (NIF), ONGC, Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI), CPWD Delhi, Uttar Gujarat Vij Corporation Ltd. (UGVCL), Gujarat Power, Indo-German Tool Room, Space Application Center, ISRO and many more. In his free-time he also serves as a mentor for many student projects and start-ups in Gujarat. He is also an honorary project mentor for academic projects at L. J. Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad.
He has also designed different types of 3D printers for a few OEMs and also owns a 3D Printer manufacturing unit in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He has designed and created working models and instruments for various Institutes and Universities like ONGC, PDPU, BVM, Uttaranchal University, Dibrugrah University. He holds an international patent for Universal Ortho Dental Clip as a co-inventor among many other awards and accolades he has received over the years.