Vikas Chauhan is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft | IIT Madras(CSE) at Microsoft. He possess expertise in c, windows, java, public speaking, core java and 21 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I have worked with Vikas on his research topic at IIT Madras. Inspite of little to no-background in compilers and HW, Vikas showed promising effort to not only identify a challenging problem but also provide solutions to tackle some of the limitations of Chisel HLS back then. Through interactions with Prof. Jonathan Bachrach (from UCB), Vikas proposed a new intermediate representation for the Chisel compiler tackling the issue of "syntactic invariance" and thereby reducing resource utilization inconsistency present in the default compiler. He was also able to demonstrate the solution on a risc-v core (SHAKTI) which required extensive Chisel coding and was successful in publishing a paper on the same in VLSID 2016. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Vikas, would give him my highest recommendation and look forward to working with him again in the future. " and "As a teammate-turned-friend, I had the pleasure of working with Vikas for about 2 years. I was constantly impressed by his diligent and comprehensive nature. He made sure that whatever projects he worked on meet the highest standards. His research background and strong programming skills make him an excellent software engineer. Hard working, sincere and given his friendly demeanor, he has the ability to easily become one of top performers in any workplace."