Tharak Krishnan
Director Of Technical Product Management at BrainChip
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolTharak Krishnan is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 17+ years of experience shipping over a dozen cloud, telecom and embedded products across broadcast, automotive and cloud analytics markets. He blends deep systems-level technical expertise—from FPGA and Linux bring-up to C/C++ firmware and distributed cloud services—with strategic business acumen earned from an MBA at Haas. As a director at Qualcomm and BrainChip he’s driven AI/ML solutions for automotive, industrial IoT and machine vision, and has hands-on MLOps and on-device deployment experience across GCP/AWS and multiple chipset platforms. Known for applying lean discovery and rigorous financial analysis (CFA Level II candidate) to product strategy, he translates complex technical tradeoffs into commercial outcomes. A practitioner of both embedded real-time optimization and modern ML stacks (TensorFlow/Keras, NLP/voice interfaces), he moves models from prototype to high-reliability production. Based in San Diego, he combines a rare cross-domain fluency that lets him rapidly bridge hardware, algorithms and cloud to accelerate product velocity.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing at CourseraSelf-driving car nanodegree, Self-driving car nanodegree at UdacityMBA, Finance, Marketing and Strategy, MBA, Finance, Marketing and Strategy at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessB.E, Electronics and Communications, B.E, Electronics and Communications at University of MadrasM.S, Electrical Engineering, M.S, Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
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Github contributions (5)
tharakkrishnan/SelfDrivingCar
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:114 commits, 90 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
tharakkrishnan/webcrawler
Aug 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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