Vikas Kumar — CTO

Seasoned Hardware Technical Leader with 21+ years of extensive experience in end-to-end hardware product development, spanning the complete product lifecycle from concept, architecture, design, validation, deployment, to product sustenance. Strong capabilities in High Speed Digital Design, Team Management & Collaboration. Proven expertise in leading cross-functional engineering efforts for complex hardware platforms while driving technical excellence and business outcomes. Core competitive Skills: • As Hardware Engineering Manager, experience in leading the Hardware design/development activity with a small team • Experience in dealing various cross-functional teams spread across multiple geographical locations. • Mentoring Interns/Junior team members. • Datacenter server System Architecture Design (Interfaces, Testability, PCB material selection, SI consideration). • High Speed board design/PCB from conceptual phase to schematic entry till pilot production. • Board bring-up Validation of various interfaces on the board. • Failure Analysis of field failures, driving root cause and mitigation. • Development experience in outdoor networking product. Hardware Engineering Tools, interfaces knowledge: • Memory interfaces: DDR3, DDR4, DDR5, SATA M.2, NAND Flash and NOR Flash, eUSB, MMC/SD card, CXL • High speed interfaces: MII, SGMII, RGMII, QSGMII, 1G/10G/25G/40G/100G Ethernet interfaces, Interlaken, PCIe Gen3, Gen4, Gen5, • Peripheral interfaces/Standards: UART, RS-232, RS-485, I2C, I3C, PCI, JTAG, USB, TV Encoder/Decoder, POE • Timing Standards: Design and characterization of Frequency Sync G.8261, G.8263,G.8261.1; Time Sync G.8273.2, G.8271, Network Layer 1588V2 protocol on various Cisco Line cards. • Debug Equipments: Digital storage oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzer, TDR, ONT-506, Calnex synchronous timing tester. • Aware of Compliances: - NEBS: GR-63, GR-1089 and GR-3108, Safety Compliance: UL 62368-1, EMI/EMC and design challenges to meet them. • Defect Management Tools: JIRA, CDET, Confluence. Awards and Recognitions: • Cadence Design Systems, Inc. awarded three times with the Special recognition award for outstanding accomplishments. • Multiple recognition awards in Cisco for various hardware design & Sustenance activities. • Awarded with DELL Champion award for on-time product release with 0 slices efforts (Hardware) • Published an article in Electronics For You magazine on Signal Integrity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Hardware Engineering Leader with expertise in Networking and High-Speed Digital Design.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 21 yrs 3 mos