I help teams validate and qualify complex multi-billion gate chips to withstand the rigours of the real world. Together with my crew, we play our part towards making the connectivity of tomorrow dizzyingly fast, glitch-free and all-pervasive. In fact, the bits and bytes of information that led to this LinkedIn web page being rendered on your screen, more likely than not, made it through one or more of these chips. And this thought makes me giddy with excitement and lends purpose to my work.My personal endeavour has been to make work a joyful and invigorating experience for my crew. To imbibe a strong collective sense of purpose, meaning and passion to the "daily grind".I am an aspiring student of leadership, on an unending quest to better myself at the craft.Ideas of building something new, or making something faster, easier or better, excite me.An unapologetic code-junkie at heart, I get an adrenaline rush out of converting the mundane and laborious to machine language. So much so, I once ended up inadvertently getting locked in at school, cooking up code late into the evening, on the only computer my school (and my neighbourhood) could afford. I can unabashedly admit to being the self-appointed "Chief Automation Evangelist" at work.Here are those obligatory buzzwords for the frenzied engines of LinkedIn and Google to munch on:Leadership and management experience in tackling design validation and product qualification challenges on emulation and silicon platforms for next-generation ASIC and SOC solutions across the full gamut of networking market segments covering Home/ SOHO Gateway, Enterprise, Core and Service Provider, Mobile Front-Haul and Back-haul, Campus, Enterprise and Mega-Scale Data Center.
Listed skills include Ethernet, Asic, Debugging, Soc, and 16 others.