Rupak Ghosh

Director of Engineering

Rupak Ghosh, PMP heads the Engineering Department at TIDC. He has completed his master’s degree in computer science from BITS Pilani and alumni of IIM K, joined the Indian Air Force in 1990 as a technical officer in AEL (Aeronautical Engineering Electronics) branch. He served in the IAF in various ranks and responsibilities for 15 years. He took pre-release from the IAF and joined corporate industry in 2004.

Since then he has worked with Aerospace giants like Honeywell, Thales, and Cyient in various leadership levels. He joined erstwhile Esterline India in 2016 which has been acquired by TransDigm recently. He is currently working as the Director of Engineering at TransDigm India Design Center (TIDC).

Rupa Shamanna

Senior Quality Manager

Rupa heads the Quality Department at TIDC and also holds the additional QMS Management responsibility as Management Representative of TIDC for sustenance of AS9100-D and CMMI-DEV Level 3 Certifications. She comes with an overall Industry experience of 19 years in the field of Engineering and Quality Management. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Mysore University.

She is a Certified Software Quality Assurance Engineer (CSQA) from QAI Global, Honeywell Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Internal Auditor from UL and SCAMPI A Assessor for CMMI-Dev. She started her corporate career at Siemens Communication Software as Software Developer and then took over various roles of Engineering, Quality Management and Leadership at Siemens and Honeywell Technology Solutions, Bangalore. She joined erstwhile Esterline Technologies from Honeywell in 2017 which has now been acquired by TransDigm recently.

Sunilkumar Kanat

IT –Manager-APAC

Sunil heads Information Technology Department at TIDC. He comes with an overall Industry experience of 18 years in the field of Information Technology Operation, Infrastructure, cloud and IT Security and Compliance. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Calicut University. He owns various International Certification on multiple streams –MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, CCNA and ITIL.

He started his corporate assignments at PepsiCo International and took over various roles in Information Technology at PepsiCo India. He joined erstwhile Souriau India from Williamslea India in 2008 which has been acquired by Esterline Technologies in 2013 and Esterline Groups been acquired by TransDigm recently.

Vadivel Manickam

Head of Technical Publications Department

Vadivel heads the Technical Publications Department at TIDC. He has received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Madras. He has over 18+ years of experience of which 3+ years as Electrical Design Engineer working with IIT Madras, CVRDE - DRDO Establishment on LCA Indigenisation projects and 15+ years of experience in Technical publications domain.He joined erstwhile Esterline India in 2016 which has been acquired by TransDigm recently. He started his Technical writing career with Capgemini in the prestigious Bombardier Technical Documentation Project and progressively accomplished the role of SPOC for avionic related publications. Prior to joining TIDC, he worked with AvioHelitronics InfoSystems as Technical Manager handling Thales Mirage 2K Technical publications.

Jagadish T

Engineering Manager - Mechanical

Jagadish T, has 20 years of experience in product design and Analysis for Aerospace products .He has master’s degree in Manufacturing engineering and alumni of IIMB in Aerospace Management ,worked as scientific officer in IISC. Since then he has worked with Aerospace giants like Hamilton Sundstrand, Alenia Aeronautica , Goodrich aerospace , and GE aircraft engines. He has approval authorization from DGCA for Minor modification for Liferaft systems. He holds US patents and international publications