Kartik Mankad is a Senior Engineering Manager at NVIDIA with 14 years of experience building verification infrastructure and methodology for Tegra SoCs. He now leads the SoC Verification Infrastructure and Methodology group from San Bruno, focusing on scalable, multi-processor verification flows and reuse of architectural models across testbenches. Earlier roles span hands-on system and unit-level verification, emulation, post-silicon validation, and testbench architecture where he led teams to deploy C++/UVM and SystemC-based solutions. Kartik’s work improved build and test runtimes and earned a Best Paper award for integrating SystemC models into verification environments, reflecting a mix of deep technical craft and process-level impact. He pairs academic research on parallelizing irregular GPU workloads with practical experience shipping next-generation chips, making him adept at bridging research, tooling, and large-scale delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
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Kartik Mankad - Senior Engineering Manager at NVIDIA