Yashwant Dagar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

11 years of experience in Software & System Design.
Strong research background with 8 global patents.
Expertise in developing GenAI products for FPGA automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI-driven embedded systems and FPGA development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai AgentsGenaiMachine LearningEdge AiArtificial IntelligenceFpga AccelerationComputer Architecture

Other Skills

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)GstreamerAutomationapplicationsRobot Operating System (ROS)System on a Chip (SoC)Deep LearningInternet of Things (IoT)System ArchitectureResearch and Development (R&D)Intellectual PropertyPatentsPatentabilityPatent LitigationEOU

About

I have 11 years of working experience in Software & System Design primarily with Machine Learning SOCs, FPGA, Programmable, Arm Based SOCs & Microcontrollers! > Experienced in handling all aspects of development cycle including architecture definition & planning, hardware/software development, Linux customization, validation & debugging. > Strong Research background; holding 8 global patents. > Demonstrated technical leadership, team development and ownership of product roadmap & critical deliverables. Among all, I worked on development and deployment of GenAI Products for automation of FPGA Development, gstreamer pipeline creations with more then 30+ Edge ML Use cases deployment, in addition to a several other reference designs/Apps for Deep Learning including, Object Detection, Video Region of Interest(ROI) Detection, Video Encoding/Decoding, LIDAR Data Processing with Deep Learning, Speech Recognition with LSTM, 6DOF object pose detection, vision transformers and Generative AI applications I value a breadth of knowledge & experiences as it enables one to come-up with cross-domain & most optimized system level solutions.

Experience

10 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Intelligent edge systems

Founder & CEO

May 2024 – Apr 2025 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Featured in CIO Insider: https://www.cioinsiderindia.com/vendor/intelligent-edge-systems-charting-the-path-for-growth-and-innovation-in-edge-ai-iot-solutions-cid-2273.html
The journey continues with a new identity.
From Intelligent Edge Systems to CraftifAI, our evolution reflects more than just a name change; it’s about expanding our vision and building the future of intelligent products.
What started as a mission to pioneer Edge AI with GenAI has transformed into a full-stack innovation powerhouse: empowering businesses to design, develop, and deploy smarter, faster, and at scale.

GstreamerComputer ArchitectureMachine LearningRobot Operating System (ROS)System on a Chip (SoC)EDGE AI+2

Craftifai

Co-Founder & CTO

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

CraftifAI is one of the fastest growing company focusing on the application layer of GenAI.
Get in touch if you want to be part of the team redefining the traditional ways of developing embedded software & systems.

AI AgentsgenaiField-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)GstreamerAutomationapplications

Sima.ai

Lead Engineer - System Applications

Oct 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

GstreamerSystem ArchitectureResearch and Development (R&D)Artificial IntelligenceComputer ArchitectureMachine Learning+1

Xilinx

3 roles

Sr. System Design Engineer

Jul 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

FPGA accelerationGstreamerComputer ArchitectureMachine LearningRobot Operating System (ROS)

Design Engineer

Mar 2019 – Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

>Part of Apps team responsible for delivering reference designs for Zynq Ultrascale+ & Versal Devices.
> Video Machine Learning Reference Example Designs for AV, Automotive Segments.
> Speech Recognition on edge.
> Exploring Deep Learning based LIDAR algorithm deployment on Xilinx Devices.
> HW software co-design and optimal Partitioning of Application between ARM, FPGA & AI Engines.
> Application Mapping on heterogeneous Architectures
> Automation of Design & test Methodologies & setting up regressions.
> Customization of Embedded Linux for Xilinx SoC
> Reference designs for PCIe, MIPI & HDMI Video Interfaces
> Experienced with Pre-production boards bring-up.
> Debugging System Level Customer Issue

FPGA accelerationComputer ArchitectureMachine Learning

FPGA (Hardware) Design Intern

May 2018 – Mar 2019 · 10 mos

Part of the System's team, responsible for development and up-gradation of VCU & RFSOC Reference designs.
> Working on VCU (Video Codec Unit) Reference Designs targeted for Zynq Ultrascale+ Devices.
>Exploring & working to optimize Machine learning Algorithms for AI Engine on Xilinx Versal Devices.

FPGA accelerationComputer ArchitectureMachine Learning

Xungry.com

Co-Founder & Head-Operations

Dec 2017 – Apr 2018 · 4 mos · Tiruchchirappalli Area, India

Built an MVP for a online food and grocery delivering platform, managed web development team and overlooked at developing operations team.
Shutdown as we couldn't raise funds to continue

National institute of technology tiruchirappalli

Research Assistant

Aug 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Tiruchchirappalli Area, India

Working of Hardware Implementation of Deep Learning. In general my work includes
> Exploring popular architectures of Convolutional Neural Networks
>Exploring state of the art Existing FPGA & ASIC accelerators for inference
> Exploiting sparsity and network pruning for Energy efficiency
> Proposing Novel Architectures and implementing in Verilog HDL
> Extracting model data and parameters from pre-implemented models in caffe
Currently I am working on a novel architecture focused on energy efficiency of CNN. In future, I plan to work in Hardware-software co-design for efficient implementation of CNN & Accelerating the training of CNN of specialized Hardware. I plan to use High level languages such as C/C++ or openCL for next work with HLS Tool.
> Implementation of essential communication blocks on WARPLab, a MATLAB based flow for Proof
of concept & in verilog for FPGA based Implementation.
> Implemented a hardware efficient, in-place FFT Architecture in verilog.

FPGA accelerationComputer ArchitectureMachine Learning

Sagacious ip

Patent Research Analyst

Jul 2014 – Apr 2015 · 9 mos · Palam Vihar,Gurgaon,Haryana

I was part of Patent Licensing and technology commercialisation Team and have been involved with various kind of projects including Infringement Analysis, Identification of potential licensee,Preparing Evidence of Use (EoU) / Claim chart, Patent Ranking, File Wrapper Analysis, SWOT Analysis, Product Listing and Market Research.

Computer Architecture