In the first part of the podcast episode, Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Mathan Ramanujam, Product Influencer and Hardware Designer and Director at SiMa.ai , shares his career journey

• Mathan started his journey as a hardware engineer at Atlaz Telecom and identified that creating 
• Mathan’s growth can be traced very similar to Moore’s law - shares experiences on how tools, circuitry and semiconductor industry has exponential world and how he has adapted himself
• System on the chip  or SoC is the trend that’s making hardware 
• Mathan realised his skill in building relationship and ability to deliver in the operational and later strategic roles
• He shares a few stories on being a product influencer and being invited to be part of panels on SoC and verification
• Harnessing the team members strength and learning from them and ensure that the value is being always delivered
• Mathan shares stories on enabling people not different from learning to swim by giving a moving target and in the end people recognizing themselves
• Mathan talks about how he has ability to tell stories and discovered it 
• Mathan shares a crumple zone as a story - End zone in view 
• Story on moving from US to India and shares his experiencing of supporting his family
• Mathan shares India’s cities that are opening up for the embedded and hardware design 

Mathan Ramanujam is the director in SIMa.ai. SiMa.ai™ is a machine learning company delivering the industry’s first software-centric purpose-built MLSoC™ platform. Mathan is a front-runner, growing high performance team ground-up! He’s is using his versatile nature and cross-functional experience to to build CoE for Infrastructure IPs for ML SoC, while Challenging himself to learn ML/AI.

Mathan has over 27 years of total industry experience with 17+ years of Team responsibilities. Mathan has taken multiple Si from concept to production, specialized in Digital design, with FPGA in the semiconductor industry. Mathan started his career in Atlaz Telecom and moved to the bay area for Arasan Chip Systems Inc.in the role of USB Device, Ethernet controller and XGMII IP development - RTL. 

Mathan later moved back to India took up team leadership roles in Nokia, Texas Instruments, QualComm, Western Digital and STMicroelectronics. 

Mathan Ramanujam has done his B.Tech in Bharathidasan University in Electronics and Communication Engineering.  

Mathan can be contacted at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathan-ramanujam-4495082/