Tamal Das — Director of Engineering

My career has been a steady reminder that complex silicon keeps you humble—because the moment you start feeling confident, reality shows up with a brand-new failure mode and a deadline. By trade, I’m an analog/mixed-signal design leader with 15+ years building and validating 50+ SerDes test vehicles, delivering IP across storage, display, and networking—up to 224Gbps. I’ve spent a lot of time in post-silicon debug, customer escalations, and cross-functional global execution—where the real learning happens. I’ve learned that leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about creating clarity when nobody does. I focus on teams that execute under uncertainty: crisp ownership, tight learning loops, honest risk burn-down, and calm escalation when things inevitably break. I started at Cosmic Circuits (later acquired by Cadence), where I learned strong fundamentals and the joy of building things that should work. At Samsung, I learned what “production reality” really means. I used to believe bench validation was the biggest proof—until I learned ATE matters even more for manufacturing. When ATE goes sideways, it’s a different kind of nightmare: limited analog visibility, fewer knobs, harder debug. And silicon validation teaches you something very specific: all the different ways things can go wrong. Somewhere in that environment, I learned how to sleep under immense pressure… and eventually how to thrive in it. Over the last two years, through multiple concurrent transitions, I’ve internalized a broader rule: whatever can go wrong, will go wrong—especially in roadmaps, dependencies, and org execution. So I plan for resilience: clearer ownership, earlier risk burn-down, fewer late surprises. Now at Krutrim, I work on high-speed interconnect / SerDes and increasingly AI datacenter connectivity, where silicon, package, test, and system constraints all collide in the real world.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Design Expert specializing in Analog and Mixed Signal technologies.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 18 yrs 6 mos