Varadarajan Varadu Sridharan
Redefining educational funding for students and educational funders | EdTech for employability and early-career success of learners aged 16 to 24 | Digital learning transformation leader
- Role
- Guest Author at The Hindu
- Location
- Bengaluru, KA, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Varadarajan Varadu Sridharan
Varadarajan is an EdTech leader, blending his genealogical passion for Education and his decade-long experience with Information Technology. Varadarajan\'s current focus is in: redefining the educational funding experience at Buddy4Study, a marketplace that connects educational fund-seekers (students) with fund-providers (CSR scholarships, endowments, educational loans, grants, tuition waivers, crowdfunding and more) building EdTech frameworks that solve for GRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY 🤹, that can help employers and governments maximize demographic dividend from their young citizens. Varadarajan has 22+ years of experience where he has played multitude of roles: Post-graduate Diploma in Education and Technology at UCL\'s Institute of Education Drove advocacy and adoption for Microsoft Edge, among Microsoft\'s global education customers Piloted early-career awareness and readiness bootcamps for young learners Head of Technology at NTTF, driving EdTech digital transformation for a legacy TVET institution Associate Director at Cognizant addressing graduate hires\' employability using EdTech Learning Architect for award-winning digital learning to bridge skills gap for graduate hires Built Orbit Shifters, Cognizant’s Hi-Po talent ecosystem for graduate hires ICT in Education expert at ETMA (http://etma-india.in/) Online course instructor for Anna University\'s MSc CS (FOSS) course by AU-KBC Research Center 2 years of entrepreneurial experience in product design for a Mobile Learning startup Published mLearning short paper for mLearn2013 on Mobile Learning Implementation Issues Mentor for many EdTech startups on product validation and emerging educational technologies EdTech Evangelist – speaker, blogger and contributor to emerging trends in Educational Technology 10 years of Top-Tier IT experience in IT Management and Business Analyst roles in India & USVaradarajan firmly believes that Education is the panacea for all social plagues, and Technology is the ubiquitous and robust vehicle to deliver this universal remedy.
Experience
Guest Author
Jan 2025 — Present · IN
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
B.E. (Hons), Chemical Engineering
UCL Institute of Education
Postgraduate Diploma, Education and Technology
Skills
- Sencha
- Java
- Software Project Management
- Product Management
- Qualitative Research
- Xml
- Business Strategy
- Agile Methodologies
- Augmented Reality
- Mobile Learning
- Team Building
- Lrs
- Educational Technology
- Css3
- Android
- Social Learning
- Learning Analytics
- Folksonomy
- Sql
- Business Intelligence
- Olat
- Product Innovation
- Scrum
- Sdlc
- Business Process Design
- Education
- Moodle
- Educational Leadership
- Innovation Consulting
- Phonegap
- P2p
- Db2
- Start-Ups
- Xapi
- Business Analysis
- Mentoring
- Data Warehousing
- E-Commerce
- Html 5
- Mlearning
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