About Me

I am a Product Management Professional and Semiconductor Specialist with 6 years of experience in edge AI silicon, ultra-low-power architectures, high-performance GPUs, high-bandwidth memory solutions, and IoT ecosystems. My work bridges edge IoT, AI client compute, and HPC data centers, driving scalable growth and operational efficiency through cutting-edge technology aligned with strategic objectives. I specialize in translating complex business needs into advanced semiconductor solutions by combining technical expertise, market intelligence, and cross-functional leadership. My initiatives have consistently delivered value to stakeholders, fostered innovation, and created sustainable competitive advantages in dynamic industries. Currently pursuing my Master’s in Product Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, I am sharpening my skills in product management, technology strategy, technical product marketing, business leadership, and product innovation. Passionate about intelligent, connected, and energy-efficient systems, I aim to leverage advancements in AI, IoT, and HPC to develop transformative solutions that meet emerging industry needs. Let’s connect to explore opportunities where I can contribute to impactful product strategies and groundbreaking innovations.

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Programming

Languages and tools

Verilog, System Verilog, FPGA protyping
Object Oriented Programming
Python
C, C++, Java, Make, TCL, Shell, System-C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, NodeJS
SQL
Linux
Jenkins
React
JIRA
Confluence
Git
SVN, Perforce, Clearcase
Mural, Canva, Office, Visio
Figma

Expert in Ultra-Low-Power Silicon and Edge AI Ecosystems: • Proven experience in end-to-end silicon development and energy-efficient architecture design, specializing in ultra-low-power systems and AI accelerators for edge computing

Driving Innovation at the Intersection of Hardware, Software, and Ecosystems: • Passionate about integrating edge AI into products to enhance capabilities, scalability, and impact, with expertise in co-designing silicon, software, and scalable ecosystems

Comprehensive Product Management and Marketing Expertise: • Skilled in product discovery, user research, roadmap creation, go-to-market strategies, and building ecosystems aligned with market and user needs • Real-world business development and consulting experience, including market research, product-market fit, SWOT, PESTEL analysis, and launching impactful products

Technical and Business Versatility • Proficient in embedded programming (C/C++, Python), hardware design & verification (Verilog, SystemVerilog), and software development (React, Node.js, SQL). • Hands-on with AI/ML models, sparse DNN accelerators, and power-performance optimization for scalable edge solutions

Passionate About High-Tech Product Leadership • Committed to leading and marketing cutting-edge, energy-efficient technology products, bridging technical innovation with strategic business impact

Proficiency

Technical Product Management

Product Lifecycle Management

Technical Leadership

Engineering Management

Market Research

Product Marketing

Business Development

Project Management

Education

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

MSPM (Product Management)

Jan 2025 - Dec 2025

An elite, STEM-designated, accelerated Tech MBA, precision-engineered for high-tech product management, seamlessly integrating advanced business strategy, AI, design, and leadership. Offered by the world-renowned Tepper School of Business (#9, Bloomberg) in collaboration with the #1-ranked School of Computer Science (US News) and the prestigious Human-Computer Interaction Institute, this ultra-competitive program delivers an unrivaled fusion of business and cutting-edge technology expertise

The Accelerate Leadership
Business Fundamentals for High Technology Product Management
Design of Artificial Intelligent Products
Technology Product Marketing
Data Science for Product Managers
HCI
High Technology Product Strategy
Business Communications and Presentations
Managing People and Teams
Business Schools Electives from Tepper Course Catalog
Capstone Project
Technical Product Skills: DNN, LLM, AI/ML, Computer Vision, Robotics

Jadavpur University

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

2015 - 2019

Participated in undergraduate research in labs, participated in multiple internships and got a taste of technical and operational roles

Several publications in neuromorphic chip development, applied computational neuroscience, application development for cryptography
Undergraduate researcher under prof Dr. Amitava Mukherjee and Dr. Janet L. Paluh in embedded systems laboratory JU and SUNY Polytechnic Institute, USA
Undegraduate researcher in CMATER Lab JU on medical image processing
Undergraduate researcher in DSP Lab JU on cryptography
Marketing expansion strategist at Mentored Research (2017)- increased customer base by 20% to new colleges
Marketing Analyst at Qrius (2018)-Conducted a consulting thesis on Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) and devise competitive and conclusive strategies to increase sales of E-commerce
Equity researcher at Money Roller (2017)-global financial market research on Gold price valuation and financial modeling
Network Management intern at ONGC (2018) and Nettech pvt ltd (2016) – systems programming, computer networks, network and information security, firewall, DoS and cyber attacks setted up realtime startopology LAN network of 25+ workstations and a HTTP application server
Undertook courses in STL, Embedded C++ and Bash scripting from LinkedIn
Instructor for Physics, Mathematics for 20+ JEE and NEET aspirants (2016-2019)
Assistant-VP JU Science Club; Organized annual techfest Srijan; increased footfall from 400 to 700+; Mentored a team of 7+ (1st runners up prize in 1 competition)
Marketing management certificate under Professor Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow | Trained in marketing strategy and business case studies (HBS) (2017)
Acted as student partner for Internshala (2016), for Jadavpur University and conducted marketing campaigns, social media marketing, social outreach programs to increase members by 125+
Moderated general assembly debate and won 2nd prize in Jadavpur University Model United Nations(JUMUN’ 2016) with 200+ delegates and Chief Secretary of State (West Bengal) Mr. Alapan Bandyopadhyay, as chief guest
Assistant Product Management consultant - Cogno AI (acquired by Exotel) based in Dubai & India - UX mockup and wireframe, alignment with stakeholders, product roadmap enhancement, increased new customer satisfaction by ~15%
Assistant Engineer - Samsung Semiconductor India R&D (Bangalore) - Researched and performed 10-15 A/B tests of resource and run-time heavy march algorithms of proprietary MBIST (DDR4 controller). Made recommendations to senior management a hardware-centric algorithm to enhance testing time by 35%. Engineered and prototyped the solution in a FPGA platform.
Graduated with First Class – CGPA (8.13/10) - Class rank 13

South Point High School

School and High School

2001 - 2015

Consistent performer; ranked within top 1%ile in class from classes 1 to 12

W.B.S.E (10th)- 90.28%
W.B.C.H.S.E (12th)- 85%
3rd prize in fine arts inter-school competition (25 schools @ Kolkata) in the state of West Bengal (2007)
NTSE (2011)

Experiences

Lead Product Engineer - IC Design

Apr 2024 – Dec 2024

Hyderabad, India - Central R&D (Wireless)

Ultra-Low-Power Solutions: Managed 3-engineer team creating edge IoT solutions; created technical modules reducing ramp-up time 90% and increasing productivity 80%, accelerating product development
Power Integration Infrastructure: Established cross-site chip power integration design and verification infrastructure; curtailed Turn-Around Time for key power features by 50% and debug/validation by 98%
Revenue Generation: Incorporated legacy chip improvements, contributing $100M Lifetime Revenue from major clients; reduced product engineering TAT 70% through roadmap planning
Market Expansion: Delivered 85% chip power reduction through iterative prototyping; optimized architectural features doubling addressable market from to $160M, positioning products for IoT needs

Senior GPU Product Engineer

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024

Cork, Ireland - GPU ASIC engineering

Leadership and Training Development: Established and led a team of 7+, including senior engineers, to develop GPU product engineering capabilities in Ireland; built training modules that reduced new hire ramp-up time by 60% and increased team productivity by 40%, with these modules later adopted globally
Innovative Product Development: Implemented a custom API using UPF to automate power management verification, significantly reducing turnaround time by 45%; developed a scalable tool across 4 GPU versions, enhancing product adaptability in compute, mobile, auto, and HPC markets
Cost Reduction and IP Management: Achieved a $5M reduction in ARM IP licensing costs by integrating efficient in-house IPs into the architecture; spearheaded the redesign of GPU interfaces, saving $1M annually and strengthening Qualcomm’s market competitiveness
Cross-functional Team Coordination: Facilitated collaboration across application engineering, software, architecture, and platform teams in the USA, Canada, and India; managed product requirements and updates, contributing to a fourfold increase in the product’s total addressable market from $190B to $300B
Strategic Feature Management: Owned the end-to-end management of product features and functional verification, improving key performance indicators such as power efficiency and throughput; this strategic focus supported the launch of Snapdragon-X-Elite with advanced on-device AI capabilities

Associate Staff Product Engineer

Oct 2021 – Jun 2023

Bangalore, India & Seoul, Korea - Memory Solutions Design Platform Team

Engineering Leadership and Problem Solving: Defined SoC product requirements and established system KPIs including latency and secure access for SSD and UFS memory solutions; led a team of four advanced degree holders in R&D to optimize $1B silicon products for GPU, edge, and HPC markets, resulting in a 4.5% revenue increase within 12 months
Strategic Product Development: Conducted a competitive analysis of in-house power verification methodologies, identified efficiency improvements, and developed a scalable software product roadmap for memory controller designs; this reduced product engineering turnaround time by 68% and achieved an estimated annual saving of $220K in engineering costs, contributing to a 7% Y-o-Y revenue improvement
Innovation and Industry Contribution: Authored a paper on novel verification methodologies presented at a prestigious in-house technical conference, enhancing the company knowledge base

Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer (Grade 6)

May 2021 – Oct 2021

Bangalore, India - IPU: Emerging Growth Incubation

Process Automation and Efficiency: Developed a software tool to automatically triage weekly regressions and simulation failures, processing approximately 50 gigabytes of data per week; this resulted in a 25% improvement in engineering productivity and a 30% reduction in debug time, shortening the product development lifecycle by 15%; also enhanced user experience by refining user flows based on feedback from over 50 user interviews and market analysis, expanding the user base from 12 to 110 in four months
Advanced Data Analysis and Cost Saving: Identified and addressed technical debt by automating the analysis of waveform metadata from 3-4 terabytes of design data, which doubled testing efficiency and increased feature coverage by 28%, saving $130K per development cycle; led a team of nine to oversee coverage closure activities across IP, SS, and SoC scales, meeting over 10 functional safety standards for automotive silicon products and achieving 100% reliability

Senior Product Engineer

Jun 2019 – May 2021

Bangalore, India & Seoul, Korea - Memory Solutions Team

Strategic Product Development and Cost Reduction: Identified critical inefficiencies leading to a $1.7M excess expense in product engineering; led the development and global deployment of a novel software for automatic verification infrastructure creation, reducing integration and testing cycle times by over 70 man-hours and accelerating time-to-first-test by 60%, resulting in $4.5M annual savings and eliminating error counts entirely. Facilitated a 4-member cross-cultural team in Seoul for comprehensive end-to-end testing and lifecycle management, enhancing product adoption and prototype testing
User-Centric Design and Market Analysis: Conducted over 120 user interviews and comprehensive market analysis to pinpoint essential product features, achieving 100% user adoption and an 80% increase in user satisfaction; recognized with an appreciation award from the VP of Engineering
Innovation and Recognition: Authored and presented a white paper at the Samsung Global Engineering Conference, which significantly raised the technical profile and influence of the group; received the 3rd prize among 150+ entries, highlighting the innovative approach to semiconductor engineering

Assistant Engineer

May 2018 – Jul 2018 (Internship)

Bangalore, India - DRAM IP Design Team

Problem Solving and Engineering: Researched and performed 10-15 A/B tests of resource and run-time heavy march algorithms of proprietary memory built-in self-test IP of Samsung. Made recommendations to senior management a hardware-centric algorithm to enhance testing time by 35%. Engineered and prototyped the solution and validated the same in a FPGA platform

Assistant Product Management Consultant

Aug 2018 – Jan 2019 (Internship)

Product Development and Management team - Cogno Chatbot

UX mock-up and design, wire-framing, alignment with product roadmap catering to financial markets- bluechip mutual funds, private and public banks, PSUs and Unicorn Startups
Came up with improved features and success metrics for the flagship product Cogno Chatbot - AI & NLP Bots for Automated Support Automatically answer most common support queries using AI & NLP Bots
Defined user stories for new features resulting in 30% increase in customer satisfaction and 20% decrease in customer churn

Open Source Projects

search_engine

Java

20844 KB

ecc_vs_rsa

A Comparative Analysis of Public Key Cryptography

MATLAB

40953 KB

Presync

SystemVerilog

12281 KB

ROCC_based_neurosynapse

ROCC accelerator ISA based neuroSynapse

SystemVerilog

1747 KB

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Jupyter Notebook

20524 KB

Raspberry_pi_edge_ML

Python

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More Projects

Others

Some presentations, old portfolios and website

Business Development Consulting for a SME, Sawaya for Africulture & Trading (SARL), Lebanon as part of a local NGO initiative

A Strategic case study on Red Bull, one of the most popular energy drinks worldwide- its marketing srategy and techniques, 4 Ps analysis, product lifecycle management

A Strategic case study on the consumer goods manufacturing company P&G, its history, unique marketing and branding strategies, competitor analysis, SWOT analysis, customer segment, product positioning and branding

A strategic business case study and recommendations for a World War 3 Android Gaming Application - starting with executive summary, market research, product strategy, hypothesis and validation, MVP features, user journey, wireframes, product market fit, market segments, competitor analysis, pricing strategy, budgeting analysis, product pricing, go-to-market and launch strategy

A short Canva based introduction template about me briefly specifying my journey till date, my interests, hobbies and my future aspirations

Some IoT DIY fun projects I did during early days of my college. Technologies used API programming, embedded C, Arduino microcontroller, ESP8266 Microcontroller

One of the machine learning practice projects done during my days in college. Technologies used are Keras, Numpy, Flask etc., You can find other similar projects in my open source section

A brief practice in GUI development using a very basic and easy framework of python called Tkinter. This excercise was done in order to understand the drawbacks of python based GUI development which is very slow and takes lot of resources and run time

My first created old portfolio mentioning my experiences in the beginning of my career. Technologies used React, NodeJS, HTML, CSS

An old portfolio based on conversational chatbots, where one can pings and get outputs. The outputs are hardcoded off-course and is not supoorted by conversational AI

An experimental old portfolio based on unix terminal, where one gives input prompts and get outputs. It is a old portfolio so the contents are mostly not updated

A software prototype of a text based search engine which will work on millions of wikipedia pages retrived in xml format and automatically bring-up and analyse the top 10 relevant Wikipedia documents that matches the input query of user. This takes Wikipedia corpus in XML format which is available at Wikipedia.org as input. Then it indices millions of Wikipedia pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. Given a query, it retrieves relevant ranked documents and their titles using index. It uses OOPs application, ranking algorithms and indexation techniques used in modern search engines. It also showcases high level system design, software architecture modelling and development sprints/implementations

Some Certifications & Co/Extra-Curriculars

Product Management Certification @ Product School

Product strategy, user research, product requirement gathering, product roadmap and prototyping, A/B testing and go-to-market strategy along with a final project submission specifying product management, roadmap and strategy for a software product

Credential

MasterCamp in Product Management @ Masters Union

Product discovery, product analytics, agile and waterfall methodologies

Diploma

Professional Certification in Product Management and other certification @ LinkedIn

Product Management, Product Road Mapping, Product Strategy, Technical Product Management

CertificateCertificate

Marketing Management Certificate @ IIM Lucknow

Product Road Mapping, Product Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Brand Positioning

Certificate

Business Development and Product Strategy for a SME named SARL based in Lebanon as part of a local NGO (Zahle Casa) initiative - Certificate

Go-to-market strategy, Business Development, Product Marketing, Product Strategy

Acknowledgement

Silicon Engineering Professional Certifications

Low power silicon product development, architecture, design, verification, scalable testbench infrsatructure creation, and simulation infrastructure programming

Low-Power Simulation with IEEE Std 1801 UPF v18.09 ExamSystemVerilog Accelerated Verification with UVM v1.2.5 ExamXcelium Simulator v19.03 Exam

Low power performance efficient high-quality silicon design

Low power architecture and design concepts and applications in ultra-low power silicon product development

UPF aware design and verificationSV assertion for design and verificationTiming constraints and STA

Student Partner for Internshala (2016)

Acted as student partner for Internshala in 2016, for Jadavpur University and conducted marketing campaigns, social media marketing, social outreach programs to increase members by 125+, increase product reach by 15% (new market) and customer satisfaction by 70%

Acknowledgement

Marketing Expansion Strategist at Mentored Research (2017)

Increased customer base by 20% of new products of Mentored Research to new colleges, increased revenue by 6% and helped in business development

Acknowledgement

Marketing Analyst at Qrius (formerly the Indian Economist) (2018)

Conducted a consulting thesis on Psychology of Persuasion (Robert Cialdini) and devise competitive and conclusive strategies to increase sales of E-commerce. Got exposure to sales management of brick and mortar business and risk management

Acknowledgement

Fine Arts 🎨

3rd prize in fine arts inter-school competition UDAAN (25 schools participated in Kolkata) in the state of West Bengal by the Government of India (2007)

South Point High School

Student Mentor at Jadavpur University Science Club

Assistant-VP JU Science Club; Organized annual techno-management fest Srijan; increased footfall from 400 to 700+; Mentored a junior team of 7+ (1st runners up prize in 1 competition)

Jadavpur University Science ClubTechno-Management fest Srijan

Moderator of Jadavpur University Model United Nations (2016)

Moderated general assembly debate and won 2nd prize in Jadavpur University Model United Nations(JUMUN’2016) with 200+ delegates and Chief Secretary of State (West Bengal) Mr. Alapan Bandyopadhyay, as chief guest

Jadavpur University Model United Nations

Toastmaster

Involved in debate, discussions, delivering speeches and organising the events. Acted as toasmaster (3+ months) in spiritual talk speaker series in Toastmaster International Intel Corporation Chapter (2021-2022);

Toastmaster International

Community Services

Donated educational resources and stationery items for sensitization of 70 underprivileged students in an NGO under the aegis of Bharat Sevasram Trust (2021). Instructor for Physics, Mathematics for 20+ JEE and NEET aspirants (2016-2019); Volunteer in Doddanakundi (largest natural lake in Bangalore India) cleaning drive as part of ESG initiative and CSR activities

Blogs

I previously maintained a blog on ultra-low-power silicon development, offering insights on VLSI architecture design and testbench concepts that supported engineers and product developers in their careers.

Blog

APB Bus Interface Testbench Infrastructure Prototype

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Publications

TO INVENT, YOU NEED A GOOD IMAGINATION AND A PILE OF JUNK. — THOMAS A. EDISON

PreSyNC: Hardware realization of the Presynaptic Region of a Biologically Extensive Neuronal Circuitry

A computationally extensive application-specific neuromorphic silicon to mimic synaptic functions in floating point and posit number system

Paper Code

SyNC, a Computationally Extensive and Realistic Neural Net to Identify Relative Impacts of Synaptopathy Mechanisms on Glutamatergic Neurons and Their Networks in Autism and Complex Neurological Disorders

Improved hardware with incorporation of complete end-to-end features of post-synaptic pathways and defective scenarios in glutamatergic neurons

Paper Code

Leveraging UPF-Extracted Checkers using UPF Query Functions for Verifying Power Intent of Memory Controller

A novel performance efficient software EDA product for automation of low power silicon product engineering and auto verification of critical power and performance KPIs and associated bug discovery, resolution and low-power coverage closure making use of advanced query APIs of UPF 3.0 and RTL and low power design information extraction through simulation database

Paper Code

Meta-Data based Simulation Automation to overcome Verification Challenges of SoC Interconnect Bus Matrix

A custom novel performance efficient software EDA product for auto-generation of error-free verification infrastructure for a customizable Network-interconnect with key features for specific interconnect architecture, performance characterization, security testing, injection of error scenarios etc

Paper Code

Novel encryption algorithm and software development

Improved performance ECC algorithm implementation and application and comprative benefits with RSA

Paper Code

Comparative analysis of low power full adders (UG Thesis)

Comparative analysis of low power CMOS architectures of adder circuits which is a basic cell which is widely used across in any silicon products. Novel architecture modelling in silicon level of an ultra-low power and performance efficient adder and strategic analysis of comparative advantages gained on existing adder circuits commercially used

Paper Code

Hobbies and Passion

❤️‍🔥 Passionate about creation and delivery of impactful and user-centric products & solutions that resonate with both stakeholders and end-users, together as a team and utilising our own unique strengths, fostering inclusivity and properity

❤️‍🔥 Passionate about technical product management (software & hardware), power, performance and security efficient silicon and systems, high-technology products and services, AI & GenAI

🧘 Hobbies - Karate, Yoga, Cycling, Travelling, Blogging, Reading Books and watching global news about economics and current affairs! 💡 Interest in socio-economic micro/macro factors impacting the world, spiritual discussions. Outside work love to take part in constructive debates and discussions

Reach Out to me!

☎️ +1 412 284 8952

"Email: sohammon@andrew.cmu.edu"

USA

Open for opportunities: Yes

About Me

Programming

Proficiency

Education

Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business

MSPM (Product Management)

Jadavpur University

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

South Point High School

School and High School

Experiences

Silicon Laboratories

Lead Product Engineer - IC Design

Apr 2024 – Dec 2024

Qualcomm

Senior GPU Product Engineer

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024

Samsung Semiconductor

Associate Staff Product Engineer

Oct 2021 – Jun 2023

Intel Corporation

Pre-Silicon Verification Engineer (Grade 6)

May 2021 – Oct 2021

Samsung Semiconductor

Senior Product Engineer

Jun 2019 – May 2021

Samsung Semiconductor

Assistant Engineer

May 2018 – Jul 2018 (Internship)

Cogno AI - now part of Exotel

Assistant Product Management Consultant

Aug 2018 – Jan 2019 (Internship)

Open Source Projects

Others

Some Certifications & Co/Extra-Curriculars

Product Management Certification @ Product School

MasterCamp in Product Management @ Masters Union

Professional Certification in Product Management and other certification @ LinkedIn

Marketing Management Certificate @ IIM Lucknow

Business Development and Product Strategy for a SME named SARL based in Lebanon as part of a local NGO (Zahle Casa) initiative - Certificate

Silicon Engineering Professional Certifications

Low power performance efficient high-quality silicon design

Student Partner for Internshala (2016)

Marketing Expansion Strategist at Mentored Research (2017)

Marketing Analyst at Qrius (formerly the Indian Economist) (2018)

Fine Arts 🎨

Student Mentor at Jadavpur University Science Club

Moderator of Jadavpur University Model United Nations (2016)

Toastmaster

Community Services

Blogs

Blog

Publications

Hobbies and Passion

Reach Out to me!

"Email: sohammon@andrew.cmu.edu"