The Team

Niranjan holds an M.Sc., in Electronics from the Krishna Devaraya University, Andhra Pradesh and Master of Science by Research in IT in Building Science from International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT).Soon after his graduation, he started his journey as an entrepreneur and plunged into product making. He developed a low cost, small form factor, and high output power product, the solid-state MP3 player in 2008 for commercial transport vehicles in the automotive sector. Though the product could not be launched commercially, it helped him gauge the path to making a hardware product in India. He also established a rich ecosystem of partners who can fulfill the downstream needs in making a product.Simultaneously, he also worked as a Research Scientist (Part-Time) with the Centre for IT in Building Science at IIIT, Hyderabad for an Indo-U.S. project (CBERD). His role led him to steer some sections of DST-sponsored projects that showcased his acumen for product design and project execution.Through Linear Circuits, he has steered the development of more than 50+ products for both Indian and multinational companies. Some of the products are patented while many have become commercially successful products.In his long journey, Niranjan’s work has received many accolades. He published multiple papers in various international conferences and journals.Niranjan lives in Hyderabad with his family. The culmination of all these experiences led to the birth of Actchip, with the objective of providing Robust, Reliable, Feature Rich and affordable Control and Monitoring devices.