Work — Poorajith

Project Manager · Infrastructure & Security

Worcester Polytechnic Institute · Oct 2025 – Present

Multi-domain portfolio across network and infrastructure modernization, capital and facilities programs, campus-wide access control, cybersecurity initiatives, and physical security and surveillance infrastructure. End-to-end delivery covering planning, execution alignment, vendor and contract lifecycle, risk and dependency orchestration, and stakeholder alignment across technical and non-technical groups.

Co-Founder · Mint Labs & MintGrid

Jun 2025 – Present · themintlabs.com · themintgrid.com

Co-founded Mint Labs, a venture studio building tools at the intersection of structured data and workflow design. MintGrid is the studio’s first product: a platform modernizing land and property intelligence. Defining product vision, system architecture, and scalable data models for land professionals.

Project Management Analyst · RELI Group

Jun 2024 – Feb 2026

Led ISO 27001 compliance organization-wide and served as analyst and project coordinator across two major cybersecurity initiatives. Built the DAR analytics framework, the MSSPSS forecasting model, and automated compliance workflows in VBA, SQL, and Power Automate. Layered AI-driven anomaly detection on compliance risk scoring and ML models for project bottleneck prediction.

Project Management Analyst · Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Jun 2024 – May 2025

Designed SharePoint architecture, built Power Apps interfaces, and created automated Power BI reporting pipelines for the IT portfolio. Led architecture reviews balancing technical feasibility with governance.

Graduate Research Assistant · Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Aug 2023 – May 2024

Researched AI applications in project management and IT governance. Built Python analyses (Pandas, NumPy) of institutional data to inform technology strategy. Sparked the ML-for-project-risk thread that still shapes how I think about intelligent automation.

Junior Solution Architect · PluginLive Technologies

Aug 2022 – Jul 2023 · Chennai

Led a $150K higher education recruitment platform build with a team of 10+. Introduced Agile to a waterfall org. Standardized project artifacts (RAID, RACI, CPM) that became organizational standards. 25% faster MVP delivery; 40% improvement in team efficiency.

Associate Product Manager · IndieSpirit Technology

May 2020 – Aug 2022 · Chennai

Built and shipped the company’s flagship e-commerce platform end to end. Custom Power BI analytics automated 60% of monthly KPI reporting. 35% reduction in bounce rates through UX collaboration. 20% adoption rate in first quarter post-launch.