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Milind
Gauns

A knight never moves in a straight line. It still covers the whole board.

PGDM Big Data Analytics — Goa Institute of Management, 2026–28

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Milind Gauns standing by a lakeside railing in Goa
01/06a1B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics

01 — About

Three directions, one lesson

I started in electrical engineering, spent a year running after-sales operations for a territory of 100+ technicians, and built a logistics model that a government department is now implementing.

None of those moves were in a straight line. Together they taught me the same thing from three directions: systems fail at the seams, and the data usually knows before anyone else does.

I'm now reading Big Data Analytics at Goa Institute of Management.

Milind Gauns beside the Goa Institute of Management campus sign
Goa Institute of Management — Sanquelim campusPGDM Big Data Analytics, 2026–28

The tour

Six moves

  1. 01a12020

    B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics

    National Institute of Technology, Goa. Graduated 2024 with 7.47/10, top 3 of class in first year.

  2. 02c22021

    Founded the Chess Community

    Started NIT Goa's campus chess club, grew membership past 200 and fielded inter-college teams through 2024.

  3. 03e32021

    Government health scheme, 20,000+ renewals

    Project coordination intern at INET Computer Services. Coordinated a 15-member verification team on the Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana renewal drive; 3rd place at the National India Summit hackathon the same year.

  4. 04g42024

    Graduate Engineer Trainee, Godrej & Boyce

    After-sales service across the PCMC and Manchar territory in Pune — 4 authorised service providers, 100+ technicians, 200+ calls a day at peak.

  5. 05f62025

    Grain logistics model, Govt. of Goa

    Modelled public distribution movement across 450+ fair price shops. Awarded an official letter of commendation by the Department of Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs; the model is in implementation.

  6. 06e82026

    PGDM Big Data Analytics, GIM

    Goa Institute of Management, 2026–28. Currently building a campus utilities platform serving 1,500 students.

02 — Work

What it added up to

  • 0+

    service calls a day at peak

    Godrej & Boyce

  • ₹0L

    peak-season revenue target met

    Godrej & Boyce

  • 9 → 2.35

    days of service backlog, cut

    Godrej & Boyce

  • 0+

    fair price shops modelled

    Govt. of Goa

  • 0+

    policy renewals closed

    INET / Govt. of Goa

  • 0

    FIDE rating

    Chess

Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Graduate Engineer Trainee — After Sales Service

Aug 2024 — Aug 2025 · PCMC & Manchar territory, Pune

  • Ran after-sales service for Godrej Appliances across the territory: 4 authorised service providers and 100+ technicians, closing 200+ calls a day at peak.
  • Cut the open service call backlog at the highest-volume partner from 9 days to 2.35 by restructuring daily call allocation and technician-wise follow-up.
  • Achieved a ₹30L revenue target across spares, AMC and extended warranty over the three-month peak summer season.
  • Built a daily service MIS on call closure, turnaround time and partner productivity, giving branch leadership a single view to review all four partners weekly.
  • Recovered ₹2.6L in ageing receivables through a nine-cheque settlement negotiated with the partner and routed via Corporate Finance.
  • Designed an incentive scheme for 100+ technicians on AMC and stabiliser attachment, turning service visits into a revenue channel beyond the repair mandate.
  • Received written appreciation from the Director of the Maruti Suzuki Centre of Excellence for closing an urgent split-AC installation escalation within 24 hours.

INET Computer Services

Project Coordination Intern

Aug 2021 — Oct 2021

  • Supported the state-wide renewal drive for the Deen Dayal Swasthya Seva Yojana, a Government of Goa health scheme.
  • Coordinated a 15-member verification team and tracked daily throughput against deadline, contributing to closure of 20,000+ policy renewals within the window.

Leading

  • Co-Founder & President, Chess Community

    NIT Goa · 2021—24

    Founded the campus chess club, grew membership past 200 and fielded inter-college teams.

  • Finance & Sponsorship Head, Saavyas Fest

    NIT Goa · 2022—24

    Headed two departments within a 150+ member core team and closed corporate sponsorships.

  • Treasurer, TESLA Club

    NIT Goa · 2022—24

    Managed club accounting and event budgets; organised a national technical event drawing 600+ participants.

  • Admin Team Member, 'I Am an NITian'

    National student community · 2021—24

    Coordinated student chapters across all 31 NITs within a 200K+ member community.

Recognised

  • 2026Official letter of commendation, Dept. of Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Govt. of Goa, for the state grain logistics model.
  • 20213rd place, national-level open hackathon at the National India Summit, for a Goa-focused problem statement.
  • 2021Ranked in the top 3 of class in the first year of B.Tech, NIT Goa.
  • 2021Certified in Programming for Everybody (Python), University of Michigan via Coursera.

03 — Projects

Things that shipped

012025—26

Grain Distribution Optimisation

Dept. of Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Govt. of Goa

In implementation with the department

A two-stage simulation of Goa's public distribution system, built after field study with officials, godown supervisors, drivers and shop operators.

  • Modelled grain movement across 1 central godown, 11 local godowns, 450+ fair price shops and 40+ vehicles, mapping gaps through on-ground study.
  • Derived shop-level demand from AAY, PHH and APL ration-card counts under vehicle capacity, trip-limit and reorder constraints.
  • Delivered a Streamlit dashboard with KPI tracking, at-risk stock alerts and Excel/PDF export.
  • Python
  • Streamlit
  • Plotly
  • Pandas
022026

Campus Utilities Platform

Goa Institute of Management

Piloted, first release cleared

Replaced WhatsApp-based coordination across six campus services for a 1,500-student campus with a Telegram bot and a role-based admin panel.

  • Built on Python, FastAPI and SQLAlchemy with a role-based admin panel for service owners.
  • Deployed on Azure with 60 automated tests.
  • Piloted with 30+ students; bus and laundry modules cleared for first campus-wide release.
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • SQLAlchemy
  • Azure
032024

State of Charge Estimation, EV Battery

B.Tech thesis — NIT Goa

Estimating electric-vehicle battery state of charge from drive-cycle data, where the raw signal is noisy and the naive method drifts.

  • Combined Coulomb counting with artificial neural networks in MATLAB on drive-cycle data.
  • Improved estimation stability under varying load.
  • MATLAB
  • Neural Networks

04 — Skills

Tools of the trade

Programming

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • FastAPI
  • C
  • C++

Analysis & tooling

  • Power BI
  • Streamlit
  • Plotly
  • MS Excel
  • MATLAB
  • Git & GitHub
  • Azure
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • FastAPI
  • C
  • C++
  • Power BI
  • Streamlit
  • Plotly
  • MS Excel
  • MATLAB
  • Git & GitHub
  • Azure

05 — Off the clock

Your move

Pick any square to place the knight.

A knight’s tour visits all sixty-four squares without landing on one twice.

It’s the oldest proof that an awkward-looking move can still be the efficient one — and the reason this site is built the way it is. Start anywhere. See how far you get before the board runs out of room.

I’m FIDE rated 1687 and have represented Goa at national championships, so I’d take the rematch.

Milind Gauns walking three dogs along a Goa beach at dawn
Milind Gauns laughing beneath the arches of Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal
Thirumalai Nayakkar Mahal, MaduraiMorning roster, Goa

  • Chess

    Represented Goa at national championships. FIDE rated 1687; captained school and college teams to first place at state level.

  • Racquet sports

    First place in men's doubles at intra-college badminton. Played higher secondary table tennis for a team ranked third at district level. Pickleball, currently.

  • Strays

    Founded and self-funded a stray animal feeding initiative on the NIT Goa campus, coordinating student volunteers on a weekly roster.

  • Sarthak Foundation

    Ground coordination for community education programmes for underprivileged children.

Milind Gauns mid-serve on a pickleball court

06 — Contact

The board’s still open

a1 → e8 · six moves