Mahabubnagar
I grew up and completed my schooling in Mahabubnagar, about 60 miles from Hyderabad. Curiosity came early: I was always interested in how things worked and why some solutions were better than others.
Meet the founder
Michael Pola MP
Curious by nature.
Technical by experience.
Entrepreneurial by instinct.
I did not arrive at ThinkWafer through one perfectly straight career path. I arrived through technology, support, research, design, business experiments and a habit of teaching myself whatever I needed to understand next.
Today, I am building ThinkWafer around a simple belief: powerful technology becomes far more useful when ordinary people can actually understand it.
RoleFounder, ThinkWafer
Based inHyderabad, India
The journey
A career built by learning, solving and trying things.
The thread connecting my work has never been a single job title. It has been curiosity — followed by the willingness to learn enough to solve the next problem.
Learning how to learn
At Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, I studied Electronics and Communication Engineering. Alongside the degree, I explored computer hardware, Windows, networking, TCP/IP and CCNA fundamentals — and, more importantly, became a self-learner.
A career in problem-solving
My technical support career included work across environments associated with ServiceNow, Wipro, Deloitte and Tech Mahindra, often supporting American customers and employees. It trained me to diagnose clearly, communicate simply and solve for the person behind the problem.
Experiments became experience
I also explored photography, trading, real estate, car detailing, printing and travel content, including projects such as PropixCube and Travhippy. Not every experiment became a business, but every one taught me something about customers, execution, taste and uncertainty.
Why ThinkWafer
AI should not feel like a private language.
When I looked more deeply at AI, I saw a gap. A lot of the conversation was either highly technical or reduced to quick tool tips. Meanwhile, millions of professionals, small-business owners and curious adults simply wanted a clear way to understand what AI is, what it can do and how to use it responsibly.
ThinkWafer is my attempt to close that gap. It is being built to make AI understandable, practical and approachable without asking people to become engineers first.
AI for the rest of us.
How I think
The principles behind the work.
I think of myself as a curious generalist working toward becoming a polymath — learning across disciplines and using those perspectives to see problems differently.
Curiosity before certainty
I would rather ask better questions than pretend to have every answer.
Research before assumptions
When something matters, I investigate, compare and try to understand what is actually happening.
Connect the dots
Ideas from technology, business, design and everyday life often become more useful when they meet.
Taste and clarity matter
A solution should not only work. It should feel considered, understandable and well made.
Beyond the screen
Still learning. Still building.
I consider myself a self-made entrepreneur in progress. ThinkWafer is part of that journey, and I am building it independently with the same approach I have used throughout my career: research, experiment, learn, improve.
Away from work, I am usually exploring one of the interests that keeps that curiosity alive.
PhotographyResearchTechnologyDesignRacingTravelMusicGardeningCooking
Let's connect
Interesting problem? Good idea? I'm listening.
I enjoy meeting curious people, entrepreneurs, technologists and teams working on useful things.