Prakash Totiger

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in semiconductor product development.
Expert in hardware-software interactions and validation.
Proven leader with global team management experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Validation Expert with extensive experience in hardware-software interactions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Post Silicon ValidationPre Silion ValidationDevopsNetwork Management Systems (nms)

Other Skills

budget managementautomationemulationPythonJTAGCI/CDhardware software interfaceEclipseconfiguration engineNMSservice provisioningtrace and debugAgile MethodologiesUnix NetworkingGDB

About

Objective: Proven leader in the semiconductor industry with over 20+ years of experience specializing in hardware-software interactions. strong technical leadership skills in pre- and post-silicon validation and software development. Summary: Over 20 years of professional experience in semiconductor product development, spanning simulation, emulation, and post-silicon validation. Expertise includes first OS boot to end customer debug solutions, software tools, and exposure to the telecom and security industry. Leadership Skills: • Over 10+ years of leadership experience in leading global teams, building high-performance teams and managing budgets. • Expertise in performance management, agile process implementation, and stakeholder management. Technical Skills: • Trace and debug post-silicon validation (JTAG, scan dump, VISA) • Soc bring-up, early boot IP’s and first boot to OS. • Post silicon functional validation for DFX and various other IP domains. • Pre-silicon functional validation using multi-die emulation environment using bare metal contents. • DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, Release management, SDLC, NLP, ML-based issue classification in simulation environment (virtual platforms). • Eclipse: Plug-in/RCP development, EMF, GEF, CDT/JDT. • Languages: Core Java, C++, Python. • Debugging: Customized GDB development for microcontrollers. • Host Platforms: Windows, UNIX (Solaris), MAC, Linux. • Scripting: UNIX Shell Scripting, Rhino scripting knowledge • Distributed systems, Cloud architecture, big data architecture, AWS architect course completion

Experience

22 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Engineering Manager

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Intel corporation

Senior Technical Manager

May 2012 – Sep 2024 · 12 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Intel (2020-2024) - Senior Manager, Silicon Validation
Lead the emulation, post-silicon, and automation teams across geolocations.
Develop bare metal content for pre- and post-silicon validation, including
trace, scan, and Crashlog features for Design for Debug (DFD) and Design for
Test (DFT) and power management.• Lead early SoC bring-up by understanding hardware specs, boot-up flow, and
establishing communication with SoC using Python and JTAG-based probes.
Budget management, including outsourcing vendor negotiation and
management.
Intel (2015-2019) - Technical Manager, Pre-Silicon Development
Build team and led a high-performance team to delivering 30+ simulation
models daily using modern CI/CD techniques.
Conducted workload characterization in a simulation environment.
Utilized NLP and Docker-based approaches for failure analysis.
Managed features of MacAfee EPO Security Console, including threat events
handling and policy management, using Spark, AWS, and Kafka.
Intel (2012-2015) - Architect and Technical Manager, Trace and Debug Domain
Developed an Eclipse-based trace tool for capturing and analyzing traces from
silicon to host.
Oversaw large data processing and capturing over MIPI or USB interface
decoding.
Built scalable architecture and rolled out products across geolocations

post silicon validationPre silion validationbudget managementautomationemulationPython+1

Infineon technologies

senior software engineer

Aug 2006 – Apr 2012 · 5 yrs 8 mos · bangalore

Developed Eclipse-based configuration and code generation engine for various Infineon microcontrollers.
Created a component-based programming framework and environment kit.
Developed GDB server and extended Eclipse CDT architecture for Infineon controller custom view.

DevOpshardware software interface

Hughes software limited

senior software engineer

Jan 2004 – Jul 2006 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Managed network management for various network elements.
Developed a service provisioning system with high availability and priority-based provisioning.
Contributed to GUI development and implemented persistent connections to multiple network switches.
Worked on multicast-based parallel applications bring-up

DevOpsNetwork Management Systems (NMS)