Our Team

RK has over 18 years of industry experience in the domain of Telecom, Embedded software and Semiconductors. For the last eight years he was co-founder of two starts ups in the technology domain where he has held various positions in engineering, marketing and management. At Vayavya RK is responsible for overall management and strategic decisions related to engineering and business activities.

Prior to Vayavya he was part of world wide Video Marketing team at Genesis Microchip. He was responsible for finding alternate and adjacent markets for the main line ATV and DTV ASIC solutions of the company and driving the marketing efforts to monetise the same. Prior to Genesis he co-founded Smart Yantra Technologies in 2001 which was acquired by NASDAQ listed Semiconductor firm Genesis Microchip Inc. in 2004. At Smart Yantra he was responsible for setting up Sales and Marketing of its products and services. At Smart Yantra he built the marketing strategies for IP and IP-enabled services for consumer electronics and streaming applications. He was instrumental in establishing the sales and marketing channels and partnerships in USA, Taiwan and Japan.

Prior to Smart Yantra he had a stint with Indian Air Force, Accord Software and Systems and HP in leading different engineering activities/groups. RK holds a degree in computer science from Karnataka University and diploma in Aeronautical engineering. He is also a qualified ISO 9000 series quality initiatives implementor.

Venugopal Kolathur is responsible for product technology road-map and product design strategies. He has over 32 years of industry and academic experience. He finished his graduation and subsequently masters from REC Calicut in Instrumentation & Control Systems and served as professor in Gogte Institute of Technology (Karnataka University) for 13 years (1983-96). He has been in industry (1996-2005)working with companies like Accord Software and Systems, HP, Ishoni Networks and Orbit Software Inc. He has led various engineering teams in multiple domains ranging from embedded systems, operating systems, networking. Venu has contributed technology articles to HPs technical publications. He is an avid reader and loves teaching Advanced C and Unix/Linux concepts.

Uma Bondada is responsible for product engineering and delivery. She began her career as lecturer (1990-94) at Dayanand Sagar College of Engineering prior to moving to software industry. For last 12 years (1994-2005) and has worked in different engineering capacities at XLnet Software, HP, Orbit Software Inc. Uma’s expertise's are in the domain of language parser, terminal firmware and mission critical back-up software. Uma holds a graduate degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Bangalore University. Uma is an excellent team coordinator and specializes in conceptualizing and implementation of software product quality test suites.

Vineet Srivastava, Director Sales & Marketing, heads Vayavya's Embedded Design Services initiative. He is responsible for growth and management of this business unit. Before Vayavya, Vineet has 15 years of industry experience managing large scale multisite projects and software vendors. Most recently he was managing teams in Philips Consumer Electronics division responsible for lifestyle products development. Vineet has extensive exposure to business development in Asia Pacific and Europe. He hold B.Tech from IIT Roorkee.

Sandeep Pendharkar, Director Engineering overlooks product development activities at Vayavya. He leads the ESL verification product development. Sandeep has over 13 years of industry experience mostly focused in the domain of compilers and verification tools. Prior to Vayavya Labs he led the Vera & VCS R&D team in Synopsys in the domain of Functional Coverage and was responsible for several technology advances. He started his career with Tata Infotech (now part of TCS) in the year 1995 working in the area of program transformation tools and optimizing compilers for DSP processors. He filed 1 US Patent for his work in optimizing compilers. Sandeep holds Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Mumbai University.

Karthcik is responsible for product development and requirements in Vayavya Labs. He has over nine years of experience in virtual prototyping technologies and their application. He has led several standardization activities in his previous organization (NXP Semiconductors), which have since been made public as CoReUse standard from IP Extreme (http://www.ip-extreme.com/coreuse.shtml). He represented NXP in standardization body in SystemC (Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) working group) and contributed to TLM2.0 standard. Some of his pioneering work in Virtual Prototyping that he worked while at NXP have been shown on real products to accelerate time-to-market and to enable early system architecture exploration over multiple Business Units of Home, Mobile (now part of ST-Ericsson), Identification and Car entertainment. Karthick hold bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Khargpur.

Dhruba is responsible for all our services engagements. His wealth of experience with techno-managerial skills helps Vayavya to engage customers in domains of Consumer Electronics and Communications. As a Delivery Manager he closely interacts with the customers in scoping, defining the engagement models and also overseeing we meet the customer expectation all time. Dhruba has over 13 years of industry experience mainly in the Consumer Electronics domain. He has been part of teams, in various capacities ranging from technical lead to over all management, in the domain of TV, DVD, STB. He has extensively front ended the OEMs and ODMs designs in EU and Japan. Prior to Vayavya Dhruba spent 6 years at Philips Innovation center,India and also worked at CDAC Pune and with Reliance Innomedia. Dhruba holds bachelors degree in Engineering from Amravati University. He also has certifications in the area of project management (from XLRI) and training in Software Quality Assurance

Tanmaya is responsible for  defining the product and services architecture across various customer engagements. He leads a team of core engineers across projects helping them to bring in better design practices, deploying the relevant technologies in customer projects. As a lead architect he is also engaged in pre-sales activities where he works with customer engineering teams to define the product features, feasibility studies and adoption of emerging standards, tools and development methodologies.  Tanmaya  has close to 10 year of industry experience in Consumer Electronics in the technologies like UPnP, Wi-Fi, DLNA,SQLite, Web services, encryption standards. He has lead teams in implementing these technologies on various hardware platforms (like Trimedia, ST Micro).  A leading brands of DVD Players, Music Players, DTV, Audio and Video streaming gadgets, web enabled portable gadgets are  some of the end products which are in the market where Tanmay's architectural contributions were made.    Before joining Vayavya Tanmaya spent 6 years at Philips Innovation Center and R&D centers and Aditi Technologies  where he was an architect for Consumer Electronics devices. Tanamya graduated with B.Tech(Hons) from IIT Khargpur in 2000.

RK has over 18 years of industry experience in the domain of Telecom, Embedded software and Semiconductors. For the last eight years he was co-founder of two starts ups in the technology domain where he has held various positions in engineering, marketing and management. At Vayavya RK is responsible for overall management and strategic decisions related to engineering and business activities.

Prior to Vayavya he was part of world wide Video Marketing team at Genesis Microchip. He was responsible for finding alternate and adjacent markets for the main line ATV and DTV ASIC solutions of the company and driving the marketing efforts to monetise the same. Prior to Genesis he co-founded Smart Yantra Technologies in 2001 which was acquired by NASDAQ listed Semiconductor firm Genesis Microchip Inc. in 2004. At Smart Yantra he was responsible for setting up Sales and Marketing of its products and services. At Smart Yantra he built the marketing strategies for IP and IP-enabled services for consumer electronics and streaming applications. He was instrumental in establishing the sales and marketing channels and partnerships in USA, Taiwan and Japan.

Prior to Smart Yantra he had a stint with Indian Air Force, Accord Software and Systems and HP in leading different engineering activities/groups. RK holds a degree in computer science from Karnataka University and diploma in Aeronautical engineering. He is also a qualified ISO 9000 series quality initiatives implementor.

Parag is a serial entrepreneur with over 18 years of industry experience, out of which 9 years have been in high technology startups. At Saankhya he is the CTO and one of key contributors to the Saankhya SDR concept architecture. He drives the overall technology and strategic roadmaps of the company and is directly responsible for the Wireless DSP, DSP firmware, DSP tool and Systems groups. He is also responsible for Product Marketing and Business Development. He is one of the co-founders of the company and is a member of the Board of Directors.

Prior to Saankhya he co-founded Smart Yantra technologies one of India’s first Video IP streaming companies in 2001 and Vayavya Labs India’s first Electronic Design Automation Company in 2006. Both companies are high technology product companies. Smart Yantra was acquired by Genesis Microchip in 2004.

His work experience includes product conception and development, system/software architecture, building and binding strong technical teams and product marketing. He has built strongly motivated technology teams in Saankhya, Vayavya and Smart Yantra .At Vayavya, he is one of key contributors in the definition of a patented Device Driver generator product. This product is first of its kind in the industry and the company’s flagship product. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors and advises Vayavya on technology aspects.

At Smart Yantra he was the CTO and was responsible for the overall technology and product roadmap of the company. He conceived and architected the world’s first Video over Wi-Fi system solution that won several awards. Post acquisition in Genesis ( 2004-2006), he built the DTV demodulation technology team at Bangalore, as part of the CTO office. At Ishoni Networks a Telecom Networking startup he was one of the early members and one of the key architects of the world’s first Gateway on Chip solution. At Philips Research and Consumer Electronics he was instrumental in defining software and system architectures for a range of Analog and Digital TV ICs. He was also one of the founding members of Philips India Design Centre in 1995. From 1992 to 1995 Parag worked as a private contractor to a reputed Indian Defence Organization. Here he designed and developed embedded hardware and software for the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft project. He has 9 (3 issued, 6 pending) US and India patents in the areas of CPU/SDR architecture, Digital Communications, Signal Processing and Hardware-Software Co-design/ Code generators.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Karnatak University, India.

Muthu has over 21 years of Semiconductor, VLSI design industry experience starting with Texas Instruments India, Sage Design Systems India, Genesis Microchip India and KarMic, India. Muthu serves on the board of Vayavya Labs to define it’s strategies and creating business networks.

Currently he is the senior executive of Bangalore based Sonic Chips India Pvt Ltd and Coimbatore based TanMic Pvt Ltd. Both these companies are engaged in building Analog VLSI design IC products for Audio Systems to build world class products for Indian and worldwide Consumer Electronic(CE) markets. At TI India, Muthu had pioneered the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) product revolution through custom DSP (cDSP) product development efforts for many customers by combining standard ASIC design flows and full custom VLSI design flows and product development efforts. This paved the way for huge business options for TI’s standard DSP chips. Prior to that, he initiated all TI-India ASIC activities in India after having a 5 year stint in their Design Automation Division. He left TI to start Sage Design Systems India along with it’s founders and promoters in US(Sage, Inc) to build world’s first LCD controller IC products, which finally lead to Sage, Inc listing in NASDAQ with an eventual MKT CAP valuation of over 350M$(Nov 11 1999). In 2000-01, US based Genesis Microchip acquired Sage world wide operations. Muthu headed all of the Indian operation and groups of the combined company (MKT CAP of close to 1B$) and grew the team in all areas – R&D, ENGINEERING, MARKETING, FIELD SUPPORT and even SALES. His team had put more than 20 IC products in customer hands and products, some of them had yielded individual lifetime revenue of 150-200M$. In Genesis, Muthu also played a major role in acquiring Smart Yantra Technologies and integrating it inside. He left Genesis and helped many startup companies like Saankhya Labs, Vayavya Labs, KarMic, TanMic and recently Sonic Chips India Pvt Ltd, all of them either in Semiconductor or related areas. In TI, Muthu was elected to its Technical council as Member Group Technical Staff (MGTS), an elected and only a proven few are given this honor. He has co-authored many papers in VLSI domains and is a co-inventor of 1 US patent in CMOS Gate Array technology. Muthu has a bachelors engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Madras University(’85) and a Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University(’87).

Sharad Sharma is an EIR with Canaan Partners and an active angel investor. Most recently he was the CEO of Yahoo! India R&D. He has over 23+ years of experience in the internet, enterprise software and wireless infrastructure sectors. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he was involved in buyout activities focused on taking mid-sized software product companies private. Previously, he was the India General Manager and corporate Vice President of Product Operations at Symantec (formerly VERITAS) and was responsible for the turnaround of the VERITAS operations in India. He was earlier a co-founder and CEO of Teltier Technologies, a New Jersey based wireless infrastructure start-up that became the leader in the Presence and Availability Management space and is now part of Cisco. Sharad has managed product development teams at Lucent Technologies both in US and in India. He also setup AT&T’s, and later Lucent’s, R&D operations in India in mid-90s. Sharad examines the transformation challenges facing the industry in his blog Orbit Change Conversations.

Vivek is an active angel investor and a serial entrepreneur starting Performance Signal Integrity (PSI) in 1993 which eventually became part of Synopsys through a series of acquisitions. Vivek then founded Mojave Inc. in 2002 which was acquired by Magma Design Automation for upto $140 million returning more than 10x to investors within a period of two years.
Vivek has lead the development of three major products in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) space each of the which has achieved #1 or #2 market share in their space and exceeded a total of $500 million in sales. Vivek is currently a volunteer at AADHAR ( UIDAI, Unique Identification Authority of India) heading the Biometrics.
Vivek received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi in 1989 and Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1993.