Prathiba Kumar

Product Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in CPU ecosystems.
Led AMD Women’s Forum promoting DEI in engineering.
Innovative performance analysis best practices advocate.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Performance Architect specializing in CPU and microarchitecture analysis within the tech industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Performance AnalysisComputer ArchitectureMicroarchitectureCompiler OptimizationBenchmarking

Other Skills

Performance BenchmarkingMicrobenchmarkingVirtualization Performance AnalysisSystem-level Performance ToolsEnergy ManagementCloud ComputingPre-salesPerformance MonitorC++CWritingPerlShell ScriptingDistributed SystemsHigh Performance Computing

About

Computer architecture and performance architecture professional with demonstrated expertise spanning workload analysis, microarchitecture performance analysis and correlation (pre-silicon and post-silicon), competitive performance and compiler performance optimizations. I currently work on research and development for the Maia accelerator at Microsoft. Prior to my current role, I have 17 years of industry experience working on high-end server CPU ecosystems at IBM and AMD. I have led and delivered complex projects in performance & hardware bringup and created mindshare for innovative performance analysis best practices in all my roles. Demonstrated track record of innovation in technical deliverables as well as via publications and patenting. I led AMD Women’s Forum for AMD Bangalore and played a role in influencing AMD’s DEI philosophy in practice. I am passionate about nurturing a passion for engineering in juniors, interns, supporting careers of women in engineering and giving back to society.

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

8 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

Principal Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering for Maia

Performance AnalysisComputer ArchitectureMicroarchitecture

Amd

3 roles

Senior Member Of Technical Staff - Server Performance

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Oct 2024 · 6 yrs 9 mos

I work with the Server Performance Group in AMD focusing on the performance of next-generation AMD EPYC Server SoCs - multi-faceted performance analysis and architecting experience covering pre- and post-silicon performance, workload performance characterization and analysis, competitive performance, microbenchmarking and performance analysis methodology and tooling innovations.
Competitive performance analysis - server processors and data center processors
Processor performance bring-up of real-world server applications as well as benchmarks, correlation to simulations and optimizations for 4th generations EPYC platforms
Skilled at creating microbenchmarks to study targeted performance scenarios and test performance behaviour hypotheses.
Delivered SoC simulator studies for projections, feature studies and regressions
Delivered with virtualization performance analysis on KVM hypervisor
Delivered tail latency analysis on server-class applications
Experience creating tooling for performance analysis and workload characterization.

Performance AnalysisPerformance BenchmarkingMicroarchitectureCompiler Optimization

Lead - AMD Women's Forum

Jan 2018 – Oct 2024 · 6 yrs 9 mos

I lead the AMD Women's Forum ERG for AMD Bangalore. The committed AWF India team works to create a workplace environment for AMD women employees to grow in their careers and as individuals.
AWF India creates programming that focuses on personal development, career journeys, safe and inclusive workplace and giving back to the larger society by promoting STEM education in the next generation of women.

Compiler performance

Oct 2014 – Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Worked on AMD's LLVM-based AOCC compiler to deliver performance on AMD EPYC platforms
Delivered performance improvements on SPECrate2017_int for two generations of AMD EPYC
Enabled pre-silicon perf analysis capability for the AOCC team via tracing and simulation infra
Team’s liasion with microarchitecture teams; validated multiple bottleneck hypotheses on simulator
Significantly enhanced performance analysis toolkit for compiler team

Compiler OptimizationPerformance Analysis

Ibm

3 roles

Performance Analyst - Compiler/Hardware

Promoted

Jan 2011 – Oct 2014 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Performance analysis of applications, benchmarks and customer codes on Power Systems.
Performance analysis using hardware performance counters, profiles, system-level performance tools and processor models.
Identify hardware performance issues and code generation issues in the compilers, recommend compiler optimizations and provide inputs to microarchitecture design of next generation POWER processors.
Competitive analysis of IBM POWER vs competition.

Performance AnalysisBenchmarking

Power Systems Performance - Benchmarking and Analysis

Promoted

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

Responsible for SPEC CPU Benchmarking on IBM Power Servers.
Engaged in development of latest CPU benchmark suite at SPEC.
Competitive analysis of processor performance benchmarks and workloads on Power Systems

BenchmarkingPerformance Analysis