Praveen Kolli

About Praveen Kolli

Accomplished Silicon Engineering Leader with a career-long record of scaling high-performing cross-functional teams and delivering complex IP and SoCs from concept to volume production. Experienced in the end-to-end ASIC lifecycle with \"hands on contributions\" —including Architecture, RTL/DV, and Physical Implementation through sign-off, tape out, and post-silicon validation.

Experience

1. Chief Engineer

   Ericsson

   Sep 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Key Responsibilities & Achievements• Strategic Debug Management : Root-cause analysis and resolution of functional, electrical, and performance anomalies.• Cross-Functional Quality Oversight : Lead collaboration between Design, Architecture, Firmware, ASIC vendors and Factory teams to minimize Return Rates• Design-for-Debug Enhancement : Partner with Architecture and Software teams to define and integrate advanced in-field debug capabilities

Education

• Manipal Institute of Technology

  Bachelors, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  1987 — 1991

• Wayne State University

  Masters, Computer Engineering

  1992 — 1995

Skills

• Low-Power Design
• Arm
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Cadence
• Ic
• Rtl Coding
• Spice
• Timing
• Physical Design
• Mixed Signal
• Circuit Design
• Modelsim
• Timing Closure
• Semiconductors
• Verilog
• Vhdl
• Soc
• Tcl
• Vlsi
• Asic
• Digital Signal Processors
• Static Timing Analysis