Aravind Inumpudi

About Aravind Inumpudi

Product and Engineering cross-functional leader with years of experience successfully aligning solutions to solve core business problems. Passionate about cultivating strong organizations that deliver customer focused solutions while boosting the top line. 10+ years of product management experience at Chief Product Officer (CPO) and director level. 6+ years of experience managing multiple managers/teams. Develop and successfully launch $100M+ product lines by defining strategy with marketing/sales teams and by executing with engineering teams. Years of customer facing experience in understanding customer needs through research and market data. Product Management Leader for Synopsys\'s class leading Synthesis Tool – Design Compiler. Several chips in commercial production have up to 20% reduced power usage and 10% speedup directly based on product innovations. Experience running operations and working with go-to-market teams to take products from idea to MVP to large scale deployments as part of large enterprises & startups Many years of deep technology experience in Software/Hardware Architecture, Design and Development. Raised angel funding, built product, hired high quality teams, and drove to a big exit as co-founder of Trupik. Multiple pending US Patents and leading journal publications • Precise exploration of market needs for a $100M+ offering – as cross-functional leader, worked with marketing leadership to acquire and decode a very large chip manufacturer’s product roadmap for the next technology node • Patented feature development by engineering team – developed roadmap and worked with the process and engineering teams to implement a patented panel manufacturing solution in lockstep with customer requirements. • Grow product awareness and customer traction – worked with customer through education and tracking of KPIs to ensure brand presence and a successful go-to-market of the solution – managed a full product lifecycle responsibility.

Experience

1. Director, Distinguished Member of Staff

   Applied Materials

   Jan 2019 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• University of Maryland

  M.S

• IIT Bombay

  B.Tech

• The Wharton School

  Master of Business Administration - MBA

  2020 — 2022