Satish Kumar Narayanaswamy

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India28 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

28+ years of software engineering leadership.
Expertise in CPU software innovation and performance optimization.
Proven track record in mentoring and team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in CPU software engineering with a focus on performance optimization and DevOps.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringPeople DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentQuality EngineeringTest AutomationProject ManagementSoftware DevelopmentQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Performance AppraisalStrategic PlanningMentoringHiringTalent ManagementCapital BudgetingEngaging PeopleCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware Project ManagementDevOpsSystem TestingRegression TestingRequirements GatheringTest StrategyTest Planning

About

"Innovating CPU Software & Engineering Leadership at Scale" With 28+ years in software engineering, I have led high-impact, cross-functional teams delivering mission-critical CPU software solutions at AMD. My expertise spans product development, DevOps, quality engineering, UI, and debugging tools—driving cutting-edge performance optimization for consumer and enterprise clients. As Senior Director of Software Engineering, I lead strategic initiatives across: ✅ CPU Software & Debug Tools – Enabling seamless platform bring-ups and high-efficiency libraries. ✅ Overclocking & Performance Optimization – Pioneering Ryzen Master to push hardware boundaries. ✅ Quality & DevOps Excellence – Implementing automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for scalable releases. ✅ Cross-Team & Vendor Collaboration – Partnering with engineering teams, customer support, and vendors to accelerate delivery. I thrive in building high-performing teams, mentoring future leaders, and fostering innovation in software engineering. My mission? Empowering engineers to create industry-leading solutions while aligning business objectives with cutting-edge technology. 📩 Always open to meaningful conversations about tech leadership, performance engineering, and CPU software innovation. Let’s connect! All opinions are my own and do not reflect that of my employer.

Experience

28 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

7 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

17 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Amd

4 roles

Senior Director of Software Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Leading high-impact software engineering teams to drive performance, scalability, and innovation.
Mentored and scaled a high-performance team of 200+ engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Software EngineeringPeople DevelopmentPerformance AppraisalStrategic PlanningMentoringHiring+5

Director Software Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Software EngineeringProduct DevelopmentPeople DevelopmentSoftware Project ManagementMentoringTest Automation+8

Senior Manager Software Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2013 – Jun 2018 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Own and drive the Development, Solutions team, Quality Engineering, UI, DevOps for CPU software organization.
On the Development, we are responsible for delivering manageability solution for consumer client, Performance libraries optimized for AMD platforms, Designing and Developing Ryzen Master application (tool to overclock, ovevoltage, memory tuning the CPU).
As part of Solutions team, we work with engineering teams, Vendor management, Customer support teams to help the OEM/Customers to provide solutions so that the engineering teams can focus on feature development and next roadmap items.
My teams support UI and Installer for various tools being developed, closely working with the development teams
We handle the DevOps for CPU software org, by providing support on Build, Configuration Management, Release management work flow system, Continuous Integration system (Jenkins, Hudson)
A big part of my organization is responsible for quality engineering of various functions across AMD. We partner closely with the development teams across geo to provide CQE (component level testing) support, the functions vary from system to application level (Compilers, Manageability, Tools, Libraries, Profilers etc).

Software EngineeringRequirements GatheringPeople DevelopmentProject ManagementQuality EngineeringTest Strategy+2

Manager, Software Engineering

Mar 2008 – Jun 2013 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Responsible for managing the Quality Engineering and Automation team.
I introduced many initiatives to showcase the work done by the team. Health report - that provided a comprehensive take on the quality health of a feature, this helped in getting the right traction and attention of the product teams.
Introduced several metrics to measure the test efficiency. Some of the metrics are Duplicate issues filed, Reduce the not reproducible issues to a great extent by following the template, Finding issues early in the cycle to reduce regressions late in the release cycle.
Increased automation by 20% thus helping engineers to do more with less.

Quality EngineeringTest StrategyProject ManagementTest AutomationTest PlanningRegression Testing+3

Impelsys

Senior Manager, Product Development

May 2006 – Mar 2008 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I was leading the product development effort for the iPlatform product suite that enables the publishers to put the content online, it also included the ecommerce solution integrated as part of the solution.
This solution helped publishers put their content in short span of time, improving TAT by more than 70%. It also saved lot of development efforts, to the tune of 50%, thus increasing efficiency.

People ManagementCoachingSystem TestingProject ManagementPeople DevelopmentPerformance Appraisal+5

Oracle

Development Manager

Feb 2000 – May 2006 · 6 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I was managing the Oracle Application Server upgrade and Oracle Designer validation team. Before that I was involved in validation of Oracle tools like Forms, Reports, Jdeveloper

People ManagementDebuggingTest AutomationUsability TestingTestingProject Management+9

Churchill software solution india pvt ltd

Project Lead

Sep 1997 – Feb 2000 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

The work mostly involved re-engineering of the legacy application system,which were of 2-tier architecture and migrating them to new version of Oracle tools into the web enabled 3-tier architecture.I was also involved in day to day administration(installation, performance tuning etc) of the Oracle databases we used.

DebuggingSoftware DevelopmentOracleSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Oracle Application ServerDatabase Design+3