Saurabh Kasat

Director Design Verification @ Microsoft

About

I am passionate about building great products. I possess strong technical experience working both at startups and large corporations. Having worked on consumer products like Hololens and XBOX has taught me in great depth what level of collaboration takes to release the product on time and with highest quality.

Country

India

City

Hyderabad

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Verilog, RTL design, FPGA, TCL, Perl, VHDL, Timing Closure, ASIC, SystemVerilog, Debugging, VLSI, SoC, Embedded Systems, Functional Verification, Firmware, Computer Architecture, VMM, C, PCIe, Logic Synthesis

Experience

Director Design Verification

Microsoft

2023-8 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

SoC Verification Lead

Amazon

2022-7 - 2023-7 · 1 yr 1 mo

Principal Product Development Lead and Engineering Manager (Director)

Microsoft

2019-3 - 2023-1 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Ownership of full verification of next generation of compute chips going into Hololens.

Senior Product Development Lead

Microsoft

2015-9 - 2019-3 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Mountain View

Hololens - XBOX - Bing Accelerator

Technical Lead

Microsoft

2013-9 - 2015-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mountain view CA

Working on verification and validation of Hololens and XBOX one ASIC.

Design Verification Engineer

Microsoft

2011-11 - 2013-9 · 1 yr 11 mos

Mountain view

Verification of XBOX one security module.

Hardware Engineer IV

Cisco

2010-7 - 2011-11 · 1 yr 5 mos

San Jose CA

Worked on Link List Controller design for Packet parser ASIC and MAC Transmitter design for 10/40/100G MAC PCS combo IP.

ASIC Design Engineer

ServerEngines

2004-12 - 2010-7 · 5 yrs 8 mos

Acquired by Emulex. Worked on 4 versions of commercially available Server Management controller ASICs. Involved in RTL design and verification, Lab bring up of design on emulation board, verification on emulation and ASIC boards, ATPG vector generation.

Research Assistant

MSVLSI lab - Oklahoma State University

2003-5 - 2004-12 · 1 yr 8 mos

Worked on Analysis and modeling of DC-DC converter using matlab simulink. Voltage-Voltage feedback scheme was used in step down buck converter and matlab modeling results showed greater efficiency as compared to other feedback schemes. Also, worked on high temperature cell library development and characterization and transistor modeling.