Mihir Sherlekar
R&D Staff Engineer at Synopsys Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMihir Sherlekar is an R&D Staff Engineer at Synopsys with a decade of experience building test-coverage and functional-safety tools for semiconductor and automotive customers. He leads PrimeSim Custom Fault development, contributing directly to industry standards like P2427 and ISO 26262 that shape automotive testability. Mihir combines software engineering with applied ML and meta-heuristic optimization, bringing research-driven approaches to production EDA tooling. He has collaborated with major customers including Infineon, MediaTek, Samsung, and Sony, and holds several patents reflecting practical innovation. Based in San Francisco and trained at UIUC, he’s interested in high-tech automotive, AI chip design, AI infrastructure, robotics, and foundation models—areas where his standards-focused, safety-first perspective is especially valuable. An engineer who moves fluently between algorithms and shipping robust commercial software, he often uncovers efficiency gains that aren’t obvious from end-user features alone.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Monta Vista High School
English, Marathi, Spanish
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mihirsherlekar/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:63 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
mihirsherlekar/cupertino-light-syntax
Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 4 tags in 5 months
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