Akshay Chauhan

Backend Engineer

Delhi, India13 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

12+ years of experience in backend engineering.
Expertise in fault simulation and performance optimization.
Contributed to high-performance raster image processors.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer with extensive experience in EDA and image processing technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Fault SimulationPerformance OptimizationRaster Image ProcessingLow-level Debugging

Other Skills

C++Crash Dump AnalysisData StructuresLinuxOperating SystemsPDFPostScriptTrace32Verilog

About

Backend specialist with 12+ years across EDA, image processing, and embedded systems. Currently a Principal Engineer at Cadence, building high-performance simulation and fault injection engines for design verification. Previous experience on raster image processors at Adobe and bootloaders at Samsung. Focussing on performance, scalability, and reliability in systems that sit at the heart of hardware design.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Cadence design systems

2 roles

Principal Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · On-site

At Cadence, I work on fault simulation — a technically intensive domain that spans the entire EDA toolchain: from Verilog parsing and elaboration to runtime simulation.
I initially contributed to the serial fault simulator, which simulates one fault at a time, and later played a key role in designing and building the concurrent fault simulation engine that can process thousands of faults in parallel.
My contributions span across architecture, implementation, and rigorous validation — including support for a wide range of Verilog constructs in the new concurrent engine. I continue to work on performance optimization, simulation scalability, and collaborate directly with customers to address real-world integration challenges.

C++Crash Dump AnalysisLinuxOperating SystemsFault SimulationPerformance Optimization

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2018 – Jul 2022 · 4 yrs · On-site

Adobe

2 roles

Lead Software Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

Software Engineer 2

Mar 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

At Adobe, I was part of the Print Business Unit — the company’s most profitable vertical — where I worked extensively on core technologies like PostScript and PDF. My primary focus was developing and maintaining high-performance raster image processors (RIPs) for 2D printing workflows.
I contributed to building scalable, production-grade rendering engines and introduced improvements to enhance performance, stability, and output quality.
A key highlight was my involvement in the development and evolution of DirectPDF, where I contributed to architectural design and ongoing feature development.

PostScriptPDFRaster Image Processing

Samsung electronics

Engineer

Jul 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

At Samsung, I worked on board bring-up and low-level debugging for mobile feature phones. My work focused on resolving boot-time crashes, analyzing memory dumps, and debugging heap corruption and scatter/map files.
I gained strong hands-on experience with C/C++, Visual Studio, Trace32, and Crash Inspect.
Notably, I developed and submitted a company-wide hidesource script that enabled the secure sharing of buildable SDKs with external partners.

C++Crash Dump AnalysisTrace32Low-level Debugging