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Manjunath Chandrashekaraiah

Senior Principal Firmware Engineer at Astera Labs

Manjunath Chandrashekaraiah

Mr. Manjunath Chandrashekaraiah have been working in the technology space across various industry verticals primarily focusing on Semiconductor, Automotive, Industrial, IoT, Big Data Computing, Automotive safety/cybersecurity (ISO 21434), Real Time Embedded Systems/SoC design, Gen AI/LLMs and AI-ML/Deep Neural networks for hyperscale cloud segment being my area of expertise with 20+ years of solid industry experience. Mr. Manjunath have Won several accolades for his accomplishments from the company leadership and have consistently impacted the customers through his technical business contributions. Mr. Manjunath is an innovator with 5 patents to date from USPTO and hone sustained acclaim in the field of my endeavor and always on top of my field. Has published several technology papers in the company conferences and has gained experience in peer reviewing papers, presentations and supervising the work of others through my mentorship and delivered successful products, solutions and services to global customers. Mr. Manjunath's passion is to deliver innovation and be an active volunteer in various reviews and judging activities which he thoroughly enjoy by positively impacting people’s lives thus contributing to the professional development and learning.



Throughout Mr. Manjunath's career he have been setting an example through avid learning, entrepreneurship enablement, collaborating and growing with the team. Mr. Manjunath always enjoyed taking on challenges and turning them into opportunities; In many companies he took the initiative of developing products and services by directly working with customers and understanding their real needs and researched himself and came up with alternative solutions with a comprehensive trade-offs info that helps


After graduating in Electronics and Communication engineering from a premier institution -SIT in India, Mr. Manjunath's professional, journey started with a startup company -Buildmet technologies where he worked as a system design engineer, developer and a lead customer interface advisor, developed a world class automotive car immobilizer product impacting the automotive community positively and generated significant business opportunities. Played diverse role wearing multiple hats by working as a firmware/software developer, hardware design engineer, customer trusted advisor, mentor, tech/people leader and innovator. Delivered world class products and services and enabled monetizable solutions for the company. This has generated increased revenue and profit margin for the company and its growth. Since those days Mr. Manjunath have been practicing the art of innovation, mentorship, providing constructive feedback through product/design/architecture/paper- reviews leading to innovation in design, architecture, coding, test planning, validation and customer delivery.


With the strong technical foundation and passion for disruptive technology development Mr. Manjunath have built my skills through hands on learning, collaboration with teams, and kept myself up to date and continued to contribute to the technology industry in various capacities. Mr. Manjunath have had the privilege to work with prominent companies like Bosch, Larsen & Toubro, Hewlett Packard, Mindteck, Collabera, SanDisk/Western digital, Ford (consulting through company DMI), Micron, Aptiv and currently working as a Senior Principal firmware engineer in the systems and software group at Astera Labs.


Mr. Manjunath have impacted the industry and customer community through delivering the 15 full scale commercial products/solutions and some key notables are:


- Car Immobilizer for automotive safety – at Buildment Technologies


- Adaptive Cruise Control/Parktronic system – at Bosch India/Germany


- CAN/LIN network design – at Larsen & Toubro


- IoT, Innovative Home automation with Zigbee, WiFi – at Mindteck


- Operating system/PCIe product design – at Hewlett Packard


- Innovative cloud storage systems and solutions – at Collabera


- Semiconductor innovation through SD/micro-SD, eMMC, UFS products commercialization – at SanDisk- Western Digital (India, USA, Israel)


- Autonomous vehicle tech and IoT innovation – at DMI (Consulting Architect to Ford)


- World’s first Automotive/Industrial SSD (2 generations of products) commercialization – at Micron


- Novel Enterprise SSD design for AI/ML applications – at Synapse


- Software defined car (AI-ML neural network based) solution and Middleware/Functional safety and cybersecurity innovation – at Aptiv


- Purpose built connectivity solution for hyperscale AI-ML infrastructure for Gen AI applications (LLMs, CNN contribution)


Throughout his career Mr. Manjunath have been significantly contributing to the embedded systems design, architecture and implementation. Mr. Manjunath's industry expertise is into novel product development in semiconductor/Industrial/Automotive - Sd/micro-SD, SSD, eMMC, DDR/LPDDR memory, NAND memory, HBM memory, Automotive/industrial SSD, Functional safety and cyber security (ISO 21434), AI-ML Deep neural networks and algorithms, LLMs and Generative AI.


Mr. Manjunath have been part of the product specification/use case reviews with customers since 2001, contributed to the industry standards body stakeholders/consortiums, internal product reviews including design, architecture, code, validation strategies and customer interface. Have delivered 15 full scale commercialized products and 9 first generation products, services and solutions to global customers/Tier1s.

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