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A profile of
Nandan Singh.

Subjects

Ed-Tech operator. Founder mentor. Creation-led learning evangelist.

Nandan Singh
Plate I Karkhana Makerspace · Bhubaneswar

Introduction

Nandan Singh is a Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at Karkhana Makerspace — an Ed-Tech company transforming education through hands-on, creation-led learning. Six years inside the company, he leads operations, partnerships and program design across India.

Five years ago he made a quiet commitment: to change how people learn and innovate. Today he leads that mission daily — through Karkhana, through TiE Bhubaneswar as Associate Director of Youth Innovation, and as Advisor to Twinverse on immersive-learning experiences.

His working belief is simple. When students build, fail, and build again, learning quietly transforms into engineering, and engineering into innovation.

Affiliations

Roles, in chronological order.

Three concurrent commitments — one company, one ecosystem body, one advisory.

  1. 2018 — present

    Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer · Karkhana Makerspace

    Operations, partnerships, program design.

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  2. 2020 — present

    Associate Director, Youth Innovation · TiE Bhubaneswar

    Mentoring student founders, shaping cohorts.

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  3. 2023 — present

    Advisor · Twinverse

    Strategy and immersive-tech learning experiences.

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Plate II — In the workshop
Plate III — On stage

Numbers

The work, measured.

Three numbers worth tracking; many more we hold ourselves to internally.

400+

Students reached

via robotics & maker programs

06

Years operating

inside an Ed-Tech company

5,172

LinkedIn followers

500+ professional connections

Expertise

Where I'm most useful.

The intersection of operating an Ed-Tech company, mentoring founders, and designing learning experiences that ship.

  1. 01

    Ed-Tech business strategy

    Strategic planning and operational design for education-technology ventures.

  2. 02

    Program design

    Hands-on, creation-led learning programs built to ship and measured by outcomes.

  3. 03

    Startup scaling

    Operating cadence, hiring, distribution and unit-economics for early-stage teams.

  4. 04

    Founder mentorship

    1:1 work with founders — idea-to-traction, capital strategy, ops.

  5. 05

    Project management

    Google-certified in Agile and Project Management methodologies.

  6. 06

    Robotics & STEM education

    Programs that have reached 400+ students across Eastern India.

Approach

“I believe in collaborative problem-solving, data-driven decisions, and growth that's sustainable. The right tools, mentors and environments quietly unlock human potential — my work is to build the systems that make that possible.”

— A working note

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