Hardik joined ETI in September 2022. He has a postgraduate degree in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics. Before this, he was associated as a Research Assistant at the Centre for Budget and Policy Studies, where his work dealt with Education, Child Budgets, and Last-Mile Delivery of the public-sector schemes for projects funded by UNICEF, World Bank, and Save the Children. He has previously been a field investigator with a Cambridge University Research Scholar on a project that analyzed the travel patterns of people in Delhi through geospatial mapping. He has prior experience working as a Professional at NABET, Quality Council of India, and has also interned at the Office of the Health Minister, Delhi Govt.