Chethan Nayak

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of hardware engineering experience.
  • Led cross-site teams in high-impact projects.
  • Expert in performance analysis and simulation platforms.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Hardware Engineering expert with a strong focus on performance analysis and simulation technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Soc Performance AnalysisCross-site Team CollaborationBenchmark Sensitivity AnalysisSystem-level Performance AnalysisArm V8 Simulation Platform DevelopmentArm-m3 Platform DevelopmentCo-simulation Environment DevelopmentSystem Level Verification

Other Skills

Workload bring-upArchitectural methodology definitionNoC performanceCross-site collaborationKeil environment developmentCross-site team leadershipAgile workflowOOP based regression tool developmentPerlVerilogObject Oriented PerlEmbedded SystemsModelSimDebuggingC++

About

A thoughtful engineer with 13+ years of experience in hardware engineering and leading cross-site teams. ####### Skills Overview ########## Technical : 1. Performance activities (Workload bring-up, SoC Performance Analysis/Correlation on simulation platforms, Benchmark(SPEC207, Geekbench) sensitivity analysis on Silicon, Required tools development, etc.) 2. Full-stack hardware simulation platform and ecosystem development. - SystemC, TLM-2.0 compliant IP development, - Debug driver implementation, Development of Fault injection mechanisms, etc. 3. Tools/Automation (Python/Perl/Shell) development for efficiency improvement 4. Embedded code debugging experience with debuggers (T32, Keil, gdb) 5. ARM M0, M3, and v8m based simulation platforms 6. Modern C++(>11), BOOST, STL , GTEST, TDD , BDD 7. C++ toolings (CMake, Makefile, Compilers(GCC, Clang, MSVC), Scons, Sonar, clang tools, GCOV, various IDE's) 8. Version Control - Git, Svn, Clearcase 9. CI/CD infrastructure (Jenkins or similar infra) 10. Virtualization infrastructure. Docker (Basic hands-on), WSL, etc Non-Technical : 1. Led India-site team - Led a team of 7 in Infineon 2. Technically leading multisite project team(India & Europe) 3. Ideation, Defining the technical roadmap 4. Project management, Agile development process 5. Product owner for the development of hardware simulation platform 6. Mentoring students and team members 7. Presenting the ideas/details through visuals as per the audience 8. Practitioner of bringing constant improvement (tech/non-tech) 9. Creating a growth-oriented environment for the team

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Hardware Architect

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Intel corporation

Performance Architect

May 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • 1. Technically led the effort to define the methodology for performing architectural studies to enable key decision-making for laptop/desktop's. This involved workload bring up, sampling, correlation with silicon data and debugging performance drifts with a close collaboration with 7 multi-site teams.
  • 2. Technically led lab efforts for architectural activities. e.g. sensitivity analysis of benchmarks (SPEC2017, Geekbench) on silicon. This lab was setup from scratch by following an unconventional approach leading to a cost savings of 50,000USD
Workload bring-upSoC Performance AnalysisBenchmark sensitivity analysisCross-site team collaborationArchitectural methodology definition

Qualcomm

Staff Engineer

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Part of interconnects performance infrastructure team.
  • 1. Involved in system-level performance analysis activities (through statistical data, RTL dump) from a NoC perspective for hardware platforms targeting automotive, mobile, and AR markets.
  • 2. Lead the efficiency improvement activities for faster delivery of NoCs
  • 3. Interaction with multiple teams (SoC, DDR, Interconnect) across multiple sites
System-level performance analysisNoC performanceCross-site collaboration

Infineon technologies

6 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2020 – Dec 2020 · 8 mos

  • Product Owner , Lead - For automotive controller simulation platform

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Product Owner, Lead - For the automotive controller simulation platform
  • Demonstrated :
  • 1. Development of ARM-M3 based platform from scratch
  • 2. Led multi-site team (Germany) of 3 members.
  • 3. Built the confidence of the business unit (BU) by use-case demonstration
  • > 3.1) First attempt by the BU for providing simulation platforms for their external customers
  • 4. Development cycle "left shift" by definition of state-of-the-art tools and techniques
ARM-M3 platform developmentCross-site team leadershipAgile workflow

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Developer - For security platform
  • 1. Part of ARM v8 Mainline based simulation platform development team
  • 2. Developed IP's and ecosystem for a Keil based environment
  • 3. Led methodologies for "left shift" of simulator development
ARM v8 simulation platform developmentKeil environment development

Senior Software Engineer - II

Promoted

Dec 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Product Owner, Lead - For 3rd gen Power Converter Simulation Platform
  • 1. Developed a co-simulation environment for an ARM-M0-based platform from scratch
  • 2. Led 2 member project team in India
  • 3. Close interaction with cross-site (Germany) RTL, Firmware, and application team right from the concept phase
  • 4. Led model-based single source system development method across product teams
  • 5. Enabled early software development use case from the concept phase by effective usage of an agile workflow
  • 6. Led development of methodologies for aggressive software testing using simulation platforms
  • 7. Setup a CI/CD infrastructure for continuous deployment with high quality
  • 8. Developed 70% of the application-specific IPs in SystemC/TLM-2.0
Co-simulation environment developmentCross-site collaboration

Software Engineer - I

Promoted

Dec 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs

  • System Model Development Lead - For 2nd gen Power Converter Platform
  • Responsibilities :
  • 1) Led a cross-site team (in Europe) of 2 members
  • 2) Developed an analog + digital (SystemC) host-based Co-simulation environment
  • 3) Developed 30% of application-specific IPs in SystemC
  • 4) Collaboration with cross-site firmware team for application development
OOP based regression tool developmentSystem level verification

Software Engineer - II

Jul 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Owner and Developer of OOP based regression tool (GUI & CLI) for the IP & System level verification across Infineon.
  • Technologies : OO Perl (Expert Level) , LSF , Simulators (NCSim & ModelSim)
  • Platform : Unix

Education

Sri jayachamarajendra college of engineering ( SJCE ) ,Mysore.

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Electronics and communication engineering.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2011

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