Siddharth Ravikumar
Technical Product Manager at Siemens EDA (Siemens Digital Industries Software)
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolSiddharth Ravikumar is a Technical Product Manager in Toronto with 12 years of experience building and commercializing verification and simulation solutions for the semiconductor industry. He combines hands-on hardware and RTL verification expertise—from UVM-based silicon validation and mixed-signal modeling to automation scripting—with product strategy and customer-facing roles at Siemens EDA and Synopsys. Known for driving tool adoption and bridging R&D, sales, and strategic accounts, he has led cross-functional teams and owned gate-level simulation methodologies used at Intel. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he has made substantive back-end improvements to the widely used certbot project, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and user experience. His background in both academic research and production silicon verification lets him translate deep technical constraints into practical product requirements and measurable customer outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, ChennaiMS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University
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Github Skills (12)
certbot10
python10
letsencrypt9
api-client9
acme9
error-handling8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
testing8
cli8
pytest8
git5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
certbot/certbot
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 16 PRs, 45 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Siddharth primarily contributed to the Certbot project by modifying the back-end code, specifically focusing on storage, renewal, and command-line interface aspects. Their work involved fixing bugs related to symlink targets, improving error messages within the renewal process, and refactoring code to remove print statements. Additionally, the user implemented changes to enhance the renew subcommand, like adding an autorenew option and updating the output in quiet mode. These changes suggest a focus on improving the tool's functionality, error handling, and user experience.
actletsencryptpythonsslcertbot
r5d/acmens
Jun 2019 - Jul 2022
An ACMEv2 client. Fork of acme-nosudo
Contributions:5 reviews, 115 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 2 months
acmeacme-clientacme-v2certificatedns
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