Chellapandi is a Chemical Engineer having 37 years of professional experience. He started his career in Baba Atomic Research Centre, Bombay. Subsequently during his professional journey moved through Petrochemical, Heavy Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. He has a wide experience working across various functions such as Manufacturing Operations, Plant Commissioning, Project Management, Process Engineering and Technology Transfer.

 His core expertise is in Process Engineering involving Conceptual Process Design, Process and Equipment Design, preparing Basic Engineering Packages, performing Potential Gap Analysis, Energy Conservation, and Environment Management, Process Improvement studies for enhancing productivity and Troubleshooting studies.

He is an industry renowned, world class specialist in giving total solution to Solvent Recovery plants by selecting the suitable Process Route, developing the whole Engineering Package for the selected Process, Process Design of the equipment and Process Development Studies for the optimization of the operating process.

Chellapandi is an expert in the area of Industrial Safety and Process Safety Management (PSM). He is a certified DuPont Safety Management Professional. Conversant with various safety tools like HAZOP Study, FEMA, What-if analysis and Why Tree analysis. Worked as an active member in CSC (Central Safety Committee) in Orchid Pharma, which is an Apex Body to decide the Safety Policy of the whole Organization.

He had been leader of projects, which had rendered more than $100 million worth of savings in resources like power, fuel, and water. Further achievements include a.) Commissioning one prestigious project of Atomic Energy establishment as the commissioning leader b.) Installation and commissioning of one Petrochemical project as a Project Manager c.) Executing one novel Sewage water reclamation project as a leader of the Process Development & Engineering team that involved in the design of a customized innovative process for a very difficult to treat effluent from one API facility with the support of CLRI.