Avinash Krishnan
Senior Manager, Physical Design at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolAvinash Krishnan is a seasoned physical design leader with 14 years of experience in VLSI physical design automation and digital integrated circuit design, now serving as Senior Manager, Physical Design at NVIDIA. He brings deep hands-on expertise with Synopsys IC Compiler II and Cadence Innovus, strong scripting skills (Perl, Tcl) and software competence in C/C++, enabling him to bridge tool development and chip implementation. His career trajectory at NVIDIA spans engineer to senior manager across Santa Clara and Bengaluru, reflecting both technical depth and growing people/strategy leadership. Academically grounded with an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M and early research in processors and NoC routers, he combines practical chip tapeout experience with architecture-level insight. Avinash’s profile hints at a preference for open-source work—his codebase permanently moved to GitLab—which suggests a pragmatic, long-term approach to tooling and collaboration. Colleagues would describe him as an engineer-manager who still dives into scripts and flows to unblock teams and optimize complex physical design closure.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech. Instrumentation and Control Engineering, B.Tech. Instrumentation and Control Engineering at National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliM.S. Computer Engineering, M.S. Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (4)
game-development5
game-engine4
opengl4
cross-platform3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
VajraFramework/Vajra
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:656 commits in 6 months
frameworkgame-developmentframework-engineopenglgame-engine-framework
spacetimi/timi_shared_server
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Shared code for the server-side of all SpaceTimi apps
Contributions:67 pushes, 4 branches, 14 tags in 7 months
server-sideshared-code
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