Tamal Das

About Tamal Das

My career has been a steady reminder that complex silicon keeps you humble—because the moment you start feeling confident, reality shows up with a brand-new failure mode and a deadline.By trade, I’m an analog/mixed-signal design leader with 15+ years building and validating 50+ SerDes test vehicles, delivering IP across storage, display, and networking—up to 224Gbps. I’ve spent a lot of time in post-silicon debug, customer escalations, and cross-functional global execution—where the real learning happens.I’ve learned that leadership isn’t about having all the answers—it’s about creating clarity when nobody does. I focus on teams that execute under uncertainty: crisp ownership, tight learning loops, honest risk burn-down, and calm escalation when things inevitably break.I started at Cosmic Circuits (later acquired by Cadence), where I learned strong fundamentals and the joy of building things that should work.At Samsung, I learned what “production reality” really means. I used to believe bench validation was the biggest proof—until I learned ATE matters even more for manufacturing. When ATE goes sideways, it’s a different kind of nightmare: limited analog visibility, fewer knobs, harder debug. And silicon validation teaches you something very specific: all the different ways things can go wrong.Somewhere in that environment, I learned how to sleep under immense pressure… and eventually how to thrive in it.Over the last two years, through multiple concurrent transitions, I’ve internalized a broader rule: whatever can go wrong, will go wrong—especially in roadmaps, dependencies, and org execution. So I plan for resilience: clearer ownership, earlier risk burn-down, fewer late surprises.Now at Krutrim, I work on high-speed interconnect / SerDes and increasingly AI datacenter connectivity, where silicon, package, test, and system constraints all collide in the real world.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Intel

   Feb 2026 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Kalyani Govt. Engg. College, West Bengal University of Technology

  BTECH, Electronics & Communication Engg.

  2003 — 2007

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  MS(R), Micro-Electronics and VLSI

  2007 — 2010

• Kanchrapara Harnett High School

  HS (10+2), Sceince

  2001 — 2003

• Kanchrapara Harnett High School

  Madhyamik

  1995 — 2001

Skills

• Cadence
• Ic
• Spectre
• C
• Vlsi
• Analog and Mixed Signal Design
• Spectremdl
• Analog Circuit Design
• Analog Vlsi Design
• Asic
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Semiconductors
• Verilog-a
• Very-Large-Scale Integration (Vlsi)
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Cmos
• Integrated Circuits (Ic)
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
• Verilog
• Latex
• Cadence Skill
• Matlab
• Low-Power Design
• Analog