Hey, I'm G Surendar Thina (gsthina),
A Passionate mentor & an introverted leader!

Professional Engineer

Passionate Mentor

Cultivated Speaker

Why gsthina?

G Surendar Thina (gsthina) is a mentor at Think-Digital, the most active and growing student community in India. He helps college students to build their careers from scratch. He also has a rich experience in community building and mentorship!

Before you scroll further, please be clear with these…

Connect with me: Because, just with your college education, you only get a poor industry exposure even after you graduate!
Your career growth with me: I provide apt mentorship and right opportunities to ensure necessary exposure before you graduate!
What I'm building will help you: I'm building Think-Digital Network, of students & professionals ranging from freshman to CEO of companies!
You're only expected this in return: Just stay proactive, ask questions! Share your knowledge & experience and keep up the chain of mentorship!

Connect Now Explore Think-Digital Network

Things I do more frequently

Weekly Newsletter

I curate content for the people in my Think-Digital network to provide awareness through the inferences drawn from my life experiences.

1:1 Mentorship

There is no better way to connect than to meet one-on-one. This one is even more effective when done in person with a glass of tea!

Content Creation

Creating content has been my bread and butter since my college days. I'm very much used to it now, and I create across different platforms!

Tools & Automation Script

I build automation scripts and use different tools to make my life easier, which also helps me save time and spend quality time with my family. I can help you build such tools.

Awareness is Everything

You are capable of doing anything you wish for. All you need is to be aware. I'm currently working on bringing awareness to students about the tools and technologies I'm familiar with.

Product Management

I also collaborate with my team to create products that address your use cases and technical requirements.

Take a step closer

Get in Touch

₹ 999 / hour

One-on-One Meet
Validate your Goal
Kickstart your Career
Internships & Job Referrals
Build your Portfolio new

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Build & Launch your Career

₹ 1996 / month

6 Months
Build your Portfolio
Internships & Job Referrals
Monthly meetup with Industry Experts new
Access to my students Network new

Build your Career

Experience

2014 - Present

Founder & Mentor - Think Digital

Aspiring to impact 1 Lakh students by 2025, by providing them exposure to the IT industry and helping them build their careers before graduation!
I pick up passionate students from our community and ensure that they get exposed to the IT industry and their possible careers before graduation, via product development opportunities, internships & company visits.
As of now, the community has 600+ students, 40+ Alumnus & 10+ Mentors.

2018 - Present

Sr. Customer Operations Engineer | Cloudera

Working in a SaaS Data Platform that is responsible for Extracting, Loading & Transforming processes for thousands of data pipelines, running using AWS Stack.
Secured SME Badge for Cloudera Spark
Awarded with Above & Beyond in 2021

2015-2017

Game Developer - Gethu Games

A fairly small, ﬂexible social IT startup having developed our own socially impactful projects
Actively worked on the 2D aspects of sprites
Implemented Sound eﬀects
Worked with some Ionic & Angular projects

Education

2017 - 2019

MBA – Marketing & Management

Completed the course by correspondence at the University Of Madras, Chennai. Managed to clear all the subjects without arrears in the same year.

2013-2017

B.Tech – Information Technology

Completed with a 7.7 CGPA in SRM University, KTR. I was more towards building products and a worthy team than increasing my CGPA.

Here is a short article by Inception Wave about my journey in SRM.

2006-2013

Higher Secondary - X & XII

Completed my 8th to 12th STD in Montfort School Anakkara, Kerala. I was an athlete and performed well in HighJump. I have played in the National and State matches for BasketBall and VolleyBall. Realizing the importance of studies, I managed to score 9.2 in class 10 and 79.7% in class 12.

Professional Expertise

Customer Interaction

90%
Leadership & Mentoring

70%
Public Speaking & Interaction

85%

I can communicate in

English

90%
Tamil

90%
Malayalam

70%
Hindi

40%

Knowledge

Ionic & Angular Framework

80%
80%
MongoDB, ExpressJs & NodeJs

80%
80%
Photoshop, AfterEffects, Premier Pro

75%
75%
GCP & AWS

65%
65%

Domain Expertise

Web & Mobile App Design & Dev

90%
UI/UX & Graphic Designing

85%
VFX & Multimedia

60%
System Design, Wireframes & Architecture

85%
Data Processing using BigData Hadoop

80%

I'm interested in

Mentoring College Students

Building careers from scratch

Speaking in Public

Impacting college students

Help building portfolio

Play BasketBall & VolleyBall

Testimonials

Arjun SJ

2nd Year Student | St. Joseph College of Engineering

"The session this guy and his teammates conducted was pretty good. They are making the students passionate towards their carrier. The session they conduct is very informative as well as motivating in nature. So keep going bro 🔥"

MD Yusuf

Rotract Club

"Mr Surender Thina conducted a good, knowledgeable session. He shared which will be helpful for our Rotaract club members and those who are just entering into the corporate world"

Vatsalya Singhi

Software Engineer at CanGo Networks

"Thina Anna has built an ecosystem that encourages students to be technical experts on not just what they know, but what they want to know."

Ritesh Bhat

Sr. Technology Analyst at Goldman Sachs

"He always makes sure that everyone in the team is getting the right opportunity and guidance. Another great thing about working with him is his motivating and enthusiastic nature."