Summary
Sounder Rajendran is a Silicon Design Engineer with eight years of experience bridging CPU emulation, firmware, and embedded systems across industry and academia. Currently at AMD, he develops and optimizes virtual bring-up and emulation infrastructure for EMU-DV flows while collaborating with RTL architects, EDA vendors, and debug teams to deliver silicon-conformant designs. His background spans RTL and firmware design for CPU power management, HMI firmware and IoT testbeds at Bosch, and graduate research in high-performance computer architecture at NC State. Comfortable in Python, C++, Verilog/SystemVerilog and a variety of front-end and automation tools, he combines hands-on verification skills with firmware and test infrastructure expertise. Beyond engineering, he has led technical education initiatives that taught 500 underprivileged graduates and has a track record of innovation awards from student startups to corporate centers of excellence.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University
Higher Secondary Computer Science, Higher Secondary Computer Science at GD Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Bachelor of Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
Tamil, English