Nainika Sudheendra
Schwarzman Scholar & HBS 2+2 Admit | 100% Essay Success Rate
Studied at Schwarzman Scholarship
Hiring Manager at Mithril Technologies
Available tomorrow at 10:30 PM UTC
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Nainika's Coaching Offerings
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Nainika’s MBA Qualifications
20+ people coached for MBA
Everyone I've coached has landed a school in their top 3 choices, even if not their first choice. We stay in touch throughout the full cycle of their application, from GRE/GMAT to essay writing to (if applicable) interview prep. I've been coaching for 5 years now and have experience with fellow procrastinators, as well as people who plan out their lives on a vision board they made in middle school. All I ask is an optimistic attitude and the ability to utilize feedback to your advantage, as I firmly believe that without it, we're all looking at ourselves in funhouse mirrors!
Nainika can help with:
Application Strategy
Cover Letters
Ding Analysis
Editing
Essays
Financial Aid & Scholarships
General Exploration
Interviews
Networking Strategy
Recommendations
Resume
School Selection
Secondary Review
Supplementary Materials
Testing & Assessments
Waitlist Strategy
Work Experience
Chief Operating Officer
Mithril Technologies
March 2025 - Present
Hiring Manager
Executed everything non-engineering: applications to incubators, government/defense opportunities, SBIR/STTR grants, designed pitch decks, delivered pitches, managed investor relations, helped to recruit and build the advisory board, managed academic partnerships and authorships.
AI Implementation Lead
Magellan Jets
January 2025 - August 2025
Built AI agents on Synthesia, ChatGPT, and Claude to train and optimize all departments of the company, from HR to flight operations, reducing training time by up to 7 weeks and enabling 38% reduction in errors from baseline. Also implemented workflows on Zapier/n8n to reduce processing time from days to minutes across platforms.
Analyst and Scout
GLIN Impact Investment
July 2024 - September 2024
Schwarzman Scholar
Schwarzman Scholars
August 2023 - October 2024
Thesis: Space Insurance as a Diplomat in US-China Relations (featured on Sinica podcast: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kaiserkuo_this-week-on-the-sinica-podcast-i-chat-with-activity-7242554867699904513-XvDm?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop) Degree: Global Affairs.
Intern
Shield AI
June 2023 - August 2023
Senior Automation Engineer
Walmart
May 2020 - May 2023
Interviewer
Was one of the first 3 hires to the drone delivery and autonomous vehicle team, headed ground-based delivery robotics and supported the drone and EV/AV team with lobbying, real estate, finance, marketing, project/product/program management, and legal, with the aid of specialized in-house teams for all of the above functions. Prior to that, I worked my way up from Manager I on the ground delivery network optimization team, implementing Blue Yonder to inform the development of the new Walmart Management System.
Education
Schwarzman Scholarship
Master of Science, International Affairs
2023 - 2024
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Master of Science - MS, Global Supply Chain Management
2018 - 2020
Grade: 3.96 Activities and societies: Exchange semesters at Tongji University in Shanghai, China and Kühne Logistics University in Hamburg, Germany.
Haslam College of Business
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Supply Chain Management and Business Analytics
2015 - 2018
Harvard Business School
MBA