Hunny Girdhar

Manager R & D at Pepsico India Holdings Pvt Ltd

Gurugram, Haryana, India

About

I am a Food Technologist who loves developing new products and learn new technologies and processes. I am team player and a quick learner. I believe in learn, build and deliver process. Hands on Experience in Extrusion Technology, Retort Technology, and Modified Atmosphere Packaging.

Experience

  • PepsiCo (7 yrs 8 mos)
    • Senior Scientist - R & D (Grains)
      Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Scientist - R & D (Grains)
      Jun 2022 - Feb 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Associate Scientist - R & D (Extrusion)
      Dec 2020 - May 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Assistant Manager - R & D at Farmbite Foods
    Oct 2017 - Oct 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Fizzy Foodlabs Pvt. Ltd. (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • Associate Product Manager
      Apr 2017 - Sep 2017 · 6 mos

    • Technology Specialist - R & D
      Jul 2015 - Mar 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

      • Managing the projects (New Products) from recipe development to product listings, and production line scaleups. • Managed the establishment of the Pilot Commercial Plant, including layout designing, machine procurements, and establishment. • Have worked on Extrusion technology, Modified Atmosphere Packaging, and Retort technology/thermal processing technology. • Optimizing of the recipes for new product to be developed. • Troubleshooting the problems faced during new product development and solving them with proper corrective actions. • Ensuring compliance of product as well as facility with FSSAI. • Preparing documents for the large-scale productions on the basis of the optimized products. • Establishing the process parameters and quality control parameters for food for shelf life, flavor, texture, rheology, nutritional value, convenience, and composition (physical, chemical, microbiological) for the large scale production. • Shelf stability study and validation data & reports, new products documents etc. in order to comply with regulatory & statutory requirements. • Creating and implementing SOPs related to quality, production, process troubleshooting at manufacturing pilot plant. • Establishing the R & D kitchen and quality assurance laboratory in the facility and recruiting manpower. • Creating and implementing SOPs related to quality, production, process troubleshooting at manufacturing pilot plant.

  • Intern at Parle Biscuits Pvt. Ltd, Neemrana
    Jan 2012 - May 2012 · 5 mos

     Learning the manufacturing process and the quality control for the production of Parle – G biscuits.  Ensuring the quality production during manufacturing process.  Proper implementation of all the quality parameters as well as HACCP plans.  Reducing the wastage of the packaging material during production.  Handling the production shift for the manufacturing process.

  • Trainee at Millenium Breweries (UB Group)
    Jun 2010 - Jul 2010 · 2 mos

     Learning the manufacturing process and the quality control for the production of Kingfisher Beer.  Ensuring the implementation of quality parameters during manufacturing process.  Proper implementation of all the quality parameters as well as HACCP plans.