Summary
Sridhar Ranganathan is a Technical Director with 22 years of experience leading R&D strategy and innovation in the consumer goods sector at Kimberly-Clark, pairing deep materials science expertise with practical technology scouting to drive commercial impact. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and previously contributed mathematical modeling of porous media flows at NIST, giving him uncommon depth in both theory and applied manufacturing processes like resin transfer molding. Known for bridging polymer science, product development, and corporate investment decisions, he excels at translating advanced materials research into scalable consumer products. Based in Roswell, Georgia, he blends an engineer’s rigor with a creative streak—aptly summarized on GitHub as engineer, hacker, poet, philosopher—bringing interdisciplinary thinking to long-term technology roadmaps.
22 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
PhD Mechanical Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of Delaware
MS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University