About
The engineer behind the silicon
I spend my working hours thinking about clock trees, timing exceptions, and NoC topology. The rest of the time I'm chasing national parks across the US, diving reefs, running through the city, or working through a good book.
Design Philosophy
Precision over complexity
A tight RTL block with explicit state machines and well-named signals is worth more than a clever parameterized macro nobody can debug at 2am before tapeout.
Constraints are the spec
Timing constraints are not a post-synthesis afterthought. SDC is documentation. If the constraint is not written, the behavior is not defined.
Verification is design
Writing a testplan before RTL forces clarity about what the block actually needs to do. The testbench is the second opinion on the architecture.
Measure everything
PPA numbers without context are trivia. Area at what utilization? Power at what voltage and frequency corner? Timing at what temperature? Report the methodology.
Research
Implementation of a Novel Fault Tolerant Routing Technique for Mesh Network on Chip
22nd International Symposium on VLSI Design and Test (VDAT-2018) · IIT Guwahati
Developed a fault-tolerant routing algorithm built over the standard XY algorithm for Mesh Network-on-Chip. The work was my undergraduate final-year project and was selected for publication at VDAT-2018.
Out of Office
Travelling & National Parks
Visited around 25 states across the US and explored roughly 20 national parks. Nature travel is the reset button — the kind of perspective shift that a long drive through canyon country or a hike above the treeline reliably delivers.
Scuba Diving
Internationally certified open-water diver. Underwater environments reward calm, methodical thinking — exactly the mindset you need when a timing violation shows up 48 hours before tapeout.
Running
Completed the SF Half Marathon, crossing the finish line via the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. Running in the Bay Area hills is the closest thing to a mandatory thinking session I've found.
Skydiving
Five jumps and counting. The pre-jump checklist is the closest non-engineering process to an RTL sign-off checklist I've found outside of work — every step exists because someone skipped it once.
Reading
Recent reads: The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey and The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. Both are about how invisible structures — trust, routine — shape outcomes in ways that are hard to see until you're looking for them.