Vivek Pawar
Co-Founder at Kalinga Stories - Bring Tales to Table
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolVivek Pawar is a culinary entrepreneur and recipe developer with eight years’ experience designing menus, kitchens, and food experiences across India and Southeast Asia. As Co-Founder of Kalinga Stories he blends culinary research, traditional Indian techniques, and operations-first thinking to create rentable concepts, optimize kitchen management, and drive ROI for F&B ventures. His background includes leading food direction and contestant grooming on MasterChef India formats and R&D work with Chef Sabyasachi Gorai, giving him deep regional ingredient knowledge and storytelling through food. He has hands-on experience launching restaurants, FMCG collaborations, and production kitchens, plus a track record in staff training and vendor systems. Based in Mumbai, Vivek pairs a formal Culinary Arts education with a curious interest in web and ML/AI technologies, signalling an appetite for digitally-enabled food innovation. Notably, his practice emphasizes resurrecting traditional recipes through modern product development rather than just trend-driven menus.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's of science, Food Production, Bachelor's of science, Food Production at itm khargharBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Culinary Arts/Chef Training, A+, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Culinary Arts/Chef Training, A+ at ITM Group of Institutionsssc, ssc at Sharon English
Hindi, Marathi, English, gujarati (speaking)
Github Skills (5)
nrrd5
python4
evaluation4
pure-python3
numpy2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
V-vp/Iron-man_detection_with_yolo_model
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
V-vp/SPOJ
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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