Nitin Kumar Agarwal — CEO

Passionate problem solver, architect and hands on leader known for playing diverse roles to support fast paced business needs and help organizations expand product portfolios and profitability. Google scholar profile - https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=TQg39NgAAAAJ Professional Summary: - 19+ years of experience diversified across 12 years in software product development and 7 years in leadership roles. Currently working as Senior Principal Engineer at ARM Embedded Technologies - Built and led multiple engineering teams across geographies - Strong CS fundamentals with hands-on expertise in developing approximation algorithms - Helped organization to expand product portfolios by adding algorithmic and artificial intelligence - Recognized for depth in technology and imagination – twelve filed patents (11 granted and 1 in progress). Presented papers in conferences such as IEEE/ACM ICCAD, DAC and ISPASS. - Believes in risk taking, constant learning and pushing the bar every single day. Considering learning opportunities and organizational business needs, switched to principal engineer role from being engineering manager. - Strongly believes in growth mindset and challenging status-quo. Successfully led bottom-up product development and influenced buy-in along the way. Hands-on experience across: - Solved multiple real word combinatorial optimization problems using approximation algorithms, dynamic programming, graph theory, cross entropy, simulated annealing, computational geometry etc. - Network-on-Chip (NoCs), behavioral synthesis, performance modelling, RTL validation, GUI design & user experience, machine learning and embedded software - Unlicensed connectivity technologies (BT & WIFI), Global navigation satellite system (GNSS), messaging services & underlying protocols (SMS and Email) and Man Machine interface (MMI)

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Embedded Systems and Telecommunications with a focus on algorithmic solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 23 yrs

Skills

Embedded Systems
Algorithms
Product Development
Leadership

Career Highlights

19+ years of diverse experience in tech leadership.
Architected innovative EDA tools for advanced chip design.
Proven track record in building high-performing engineering teams.

Work Experience

Arm

Senior Principal Engineer (6 yrs 2 mos)

Principal Engineer (4 yrs 9 mos)

Intel Mobile Communications Pvt Ltd

Engineering Manager (5 yrs 7 mos)

Infineon Technology India Private Ltd

Member Of Technical Staff (3 yrs 3 mos)

Agere Systems India Private Ltd

Senior Software Engineer (4 yrs 5 mos)

Education

Master of Technology (M.Tech.) at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Samrat Ashok Technological Institute

at Govt Higher Secondary School, Sagar

Nitin Kumar Agarwal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs experience

Key Highlights

19+ years of diverse experience in tech leadership.
Architected innovative EDA tools for advanced chip design.
Proven track record in building high-performing engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in Embedded Systems and Telecommunications with a focus on algorithmic solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Embedded SystemsAlgorithmsProduct DevelopmentLeadership

Other Skills

EDAC++NoCBehavioral SynthesisMachine LearningPerformance ModellingRTL VerificationWLANBluetoothGNSSSystem DebuggingCustomer SatisfactionSmartphone Application DevelopmentMiddlewareUnified Messaging Framework

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Experience

23 yrs

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Arm

2 roles

Senior Principal Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for building an EDA product for NoC’s behavioral synthesis.
Architected and led the development of an EDA tool written in C++ for behavioral synthesis of Network-on-Chips, with involved hands-on work.
Helped organization to shift focus to start using automated and algorithm-based flow to generate interconnects, saving 100’s of man hours going into manual designs.
Worked through multiple customer evaluations for design wins.
Created a strong IP portfolio around NoC behavioral synthesis.
Incorporated physical awareness and protocol level timing closure to reduce back-end tooling iterations.
Integration and development of ML based PPA models for enhanced and realistic cost modelling.
Integrated NoC synthesis with GUI, performance modelling, RTL simulation, RTL verification flows and underlying IP libraries.
Evolved multiple specs to capture behavioral input, traffic concurrency, system level use cases, power props and physical information.

EDAC++NoCBehavioral SynthesisMachine LearningPerformance Modelling+3

Principal Engineer

Sep 2016 – Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Intel mobile communications pvt ltd

Engineering Manager

Feb 2011 – Sep 2016 · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for building engineering teams to scale and productize connectivity solutions.
Staffed and coached teams to enable connectivity solutions on ODM/OEM’s platforms. Teams across India, China, Korea, Taipei & US.
Groomed technical competency so that the team eventually provided fixes for 75% of product defects
Technologies involved - WLAN 802.11 a, b, g, n, ac (Base station mode, P2P & Miracast), BT (BLE/4.0), GNSS (GPS, GLONASS & BEIDOU), FMR, USB, TCP/IP, system debugging and relevant IEEE, 3GPP, OMA, BT SIG & WFA standards. Underlying Android platforms are based on ARM7/9/11, Cortex A5 and Intel Atom.
Responsible for creating strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align and support key business initiatives with tier-1 OEMs. Partnered with ODMs to enable low-cost turnkey solutions in China tech eco system. Led & collaborated with customer facing teams and R&D organizations (APAC, EU, & Israel) to continuously optimize workflows resulting in enhanced efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Enabled connectivity solutions for Tier-1 customer launches
Led ramp ups right from kick off meeting & first HW bring up till production line support & OTA updates.
Led multiple task forces focused on power and performance KPIs optimizations & critical customer bugs.
Enabled customer to launch multiple 3G/2G feature phones in US market with AT&T.
Led BT IOP with external vendor. Deployed KPI based billing, instead of fixed T&M, saving 50% on the cost.
Worked with sales & marketing teams to facilitate multi-million sales deal to clear inventory.
Partnership with ODMs to enable low cost and turnkey solutions
Aimed to enable ODMs mass production readiness with 2-3 Months of schedule for low cost 3G smartphones (End user price - 100$). With 6-10 ODMs ramping in parallel.
Expanding GNSS market by delivering certified M.2 WWAN modules through licensing ODM partners and focused Windows PC OEM integration support.

WLANBluetoothGNSSSystem DebuggingCustomer SatisfactionProduct Development+1

Infineon technology india private ltd

Member Of Technical Staff

Oct 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for development of smartphone application suite & middleware
Involved in architecting & development of a Windowing framework to allow multiple Applications to run under single OS thread.
Architected and developed unified messaging framework. It provides a unified user experience across all the message types (SMS, EMS, Email and MMS).
Developed reference MMI Layer for smart phones.

Smartphone Application DevelopmentMiddlewareUnified Messaging FrameworkEmbedded Systems