Mahesh Jadhav — CEO

Overall 15+ years of experience building quality ,validating systems and developing test automation for Embedded SoC, Server SOC, Graphics Processors focused on mobile and server domains. 6+ years of experience in managing and mentoring world wide technically strong team of system engineers in test and validation. key focus on driving customer requirements, partnership in product design, system validation from emulation Platform, Bringup, Post silicon validation up to customer delivery. Key achievements - Contributing to business growth through high quality products, improved operational efficiency and enabling product design wins. - Managing Quality Assurance, Automation ,Tool Development, Performance, validation projects - Deploying innovative techniques to solve challenging quality problems - Defining customized processes suitable for Mobile, IoT , Server product Validations - Achieved seven Qualstar Awards for critical issue debug and delivering projects with right timeline - Inventor of 4 US Patents in GPU Processor and Multimedia Domain - Author of technology books in Linux Device driver, Multimedia Systems and Python programming domain Excellent exposure to the entire Product Development Life cycle starting from defining Product Road map, Planning Releases, Development, QA and Customer Engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Validation Engineer with extensive experience in performance testing and automation.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 16 yrs 10 mos

Skills

System Performance
Customer Experience
Automation
Arm Architecture
Validation (v&v)

Career Highlights

Achieved seven Qualstar Awards for critical issue debug.
Inventor of 4 US Patents in GPU Processor domain.
Contributed to business growth through high quality products.

Work Experience

Ampere

Senior Manager, Hardware Engineering (1 yr 5 mos)

Principle Silicon Validation Engineer/Manager (3 yrs)

Qualcomm

Staff System Performance Engineer (1 yr)

Senior Lead Multimedia Systems (3 yrs 2 mos)

Senior System Validation Engineer (2 yrs 4 mos)

NVIDIA

Software Quality Assurance Engineer (3 yrs 10 mos)

Software Automation and Tools Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)

Education

Master of Science (MS) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Walchand College of Engineering(A Govt. Aided Autonomous Institute),SANGLI-M.S

Professional Certification in Innovative Product Design and Development at Department of Design and Manufacturing (DM), Indian Institute of Science

Mahesh Jadhav

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India16 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved seven Qualstar Awards for critical issue debug.
Inventor of 4 US Patents in GPU Processor domain.
Contributed to business growth through high quality products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Validation Engineer with extensive experience in performance testing and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

System PerformanceCustomer ExperienceAutomationArm ArchitectureValidation (v&v)

Other Skills

LinuxVerificationTest AutomationTechnical Product ManagementDebuggingTestingManual TestingTest PlanningShell ScriptingSoftware Quality AssuranceTest CasesPatentsFunctional TestingSDLCMobile Devices

About

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Ampere

2 roles

Senior Manager, Hardware Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Responsible for silicon bring up , emulation , functional validation , System performance , customer issue debugs for server CPU running on Linux operating system.
Managing and mentoring talented team of system engineers across Pune, Bangalore and Vietnam Driving tool development and customer deployment of system debug tools for CPU and System level hardware blocks.
Managing customer issue, root cause analysis, RMA analysis to root cause of external issues and test development to improvement SLT screening process.
Delivered validation of 3 Server Chipset CPUs from bringup to customer support with highest quality.
Expertise in linux and Baremetal level benchmark analysis using in Core, Memory , IO , Artificial intelligence domain in Emulation , Bringup and Post Silicon phase of Server and AI accelerator Chipset.
Deployed end to end Automation framework to compile, execute and analyze open source system benchmarks
Hands on expertise in performance analysis and competitive analysis to identify bottleneck and improvement areas
Driving initiative of performance evaluation for open source AI inference models to identify optimal system configuration

System PerformanceCustomer Experience

Principle Silicon Validation Engineer/Manager

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

Managing ARM CPU multicore Server validation and Debug system for Cloud and Edge Servers
Leading CPU and interconnect functional and performance validation on Linux OS and Virtualization
Focused on Core, Cache, Memory, IO, AI, System stress and perf benchmarks, C level targeted tests
Managing overall product quality by debugging of customer issues and RMA root cause analysis
Driven process enhancements by automating execution and report generation for regressions
Proven track record of excellent planning and executing validation phases from bring up to release
Driving multiple innovative tools development to validate RAS, crypto, floating point, interconnect
Driving the test coverage with server level performance Benchmarks and OS level targeted tests
Leading a project team of highly skilled system engineers from India and Vietnam for server chipsets

ARM ArchitectureVerificationValidation (V&V)

Qualcomm

3 roles

Staff System Performance Engineer

Dec 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr

Lead Mobile and XR-VR SOC chipset validation projects from planning to execution phase
Managing a project team for performance validation for Mobile and XR projects
Responsible for delivering performance metrics for Mid and high tier mobile chipsets
Driven customer debugs to root cause the critical customer issues
Driven performance optimization and correlation to improve current and upcoming mobile SOC architecture

Senior Lead Multimedia Systems

Oct 2017 – Dec 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Lead 5 Mobile SOC projects and 2 IoT projects from architecture definition to customer enablement
Awarded 6 times as a Qualstar for excellent project leadership and resolving critical debugs
Looking after Planning, Scheduling, Resource allocation, Tracking and Reporting for all the products.
Leading IoT chipset performance for camera segment as a technical interface to customer.
Team development - Hiring, identifying Training needs, Career planning / Goal Settings, Coaching/Mentoring,and Performance Appraisal.
Automation: identifying automation needs, conceive / architect automation framework and get it developed. Got high severity performance issues detected /fixed with the help of automation.

Senior System Validation Engineer

Jun 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Project management for Mobile IP Validation, including Camera, Video, Graphics ,Display.
Development of System C programs for Bandwidth (throughput)and Latency counter profiling.
System architecture level analysis of multimedia data flow issues and bandwidth projections.
Mentoring the team in Technical issues and Improving process tracking with JIRA based approach.
Resolved major customers blocking issues for Samsung, LG, MI, Motorola, GoPro for customer.
Tools : C programming , T32 JTAG Debugger , Hardware Performance Counters, ELF debugging

Nvidia

2 roles

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Jul 2011 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Lead and supervise project plans by defining best practices in Display Driver Validation for Workstation professional graphics Processor.
Test Plan owner and Planning of Graphics driver software releases to validate new features release.
Functional test plan owner for workstation graphics driver Installation features to accomplish IEEE Test plans review from stack holder.
Expert in GPU architecture, Graphics data flow pipeline and Performance Benchmarking.
Debugging device driver level bugs and isolating the complex issues with close interaction with global development teams.
Resolved quality related problems associated with Graphics processor and device driver.
Driven Code Coverage Analysis activity to validate uncovered area by adding 5% new use cases.
Hands on experience of Graphics Tools, GPU specific Benchmarks, winDBG debugger, GPU Performance Tools, Graphics control Panel, BullsEye coverage tracker.

Software Automation and Tools Engineer

Jun 2009 – Jul 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Automation and Tools Validation and Deployment for identifying Device Driver Software bugs.
UI Automation Scripting and Validation for device driver feature validation.
QA lead for Test Case management Tool validation used to track coverage and report generation
Development and Testing of of C# form based tools for Device driver Installation features.