Gokulakrishnan Thanigachalam +(91) 8951143589

Post silicon Validation , Team Lead , Power & Performance krishnangokul.t@gmail.com

Bangalore ,INDIA Gokulakrishnan_Thanigachalam

Profile
• 12+ Years of industry experience in Post Silicon function validation, BIOS testing, Power and
Performance execution, Triage and Team Lead/technical lead.
• ~1 year of experience on Server NXV IO Accelerators.
• 4 Years of experience in leading the Power and Performance team across various programs includes
mentoring and monitoring the team.
• 1 Year of experience in Performance execution of KPI’s and Triage.
• 4 Years of experience in functional validation & triage of BKC ingredients and features.
• 1 Year of experience in BIOS testing of silver BAT and functional testing.
• 1 Year of experience in Platform engineering group at HCL as Apprentice.
• Passion in mentoring and monitoring Power and Performance team of 12 members.
• Tracking & Guiding of all task assigned and experiments performed at PnP.
• Actively participated on enablement of new KPI’s / features for PnP.
• Have leaded the BKC functional validation team on BKC execution cycles.

Skill set
Team Lead Passion in mentoring and monitoring the team of ~15 members and tracking
the revenue.
Power & Performance KPI measurement & enablement, BKC execution & Triage, One voice report &
dashboards.
Post Silicon Validation Functional Validation, Board bring up, Power Management flows (Sleep states
, Device states, Stress and Stability & CPU states).
Ingredients/Subsystems RVP, DSA Coprocessor on Server.
Tools Soc watch, TAT, Python SV and EMON.
Sys-debug HSD tracking and Ingredient mapping, Bug escape analysis.

Education
• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering stream, Mailam Engineering
College, Affiliated to Anna University, Tamilnadu, 74.5%(percentage)
• Diploma in Electrical and Electronics, Elumalai Polytechnic, Tamilnadu, 83%(Percentage)

Professional Experience

Feb’20 onwards Intel Corporation Hardware Engineer

Aug’18 – Jan’20
Jul’14 - Jul’18 ( 4 Years)
Sep’13 - Jan’14 (5 months)
Feb'14 – June'14 (5 months)
Dec’10 – Aug’13 (2.9 Years)
Jun’08 – Nov’10 ( 2.4 Years)
May ’07 – May’08 (1 Year)
Wipro Technologies Project Lead
UST Global, Bangalore Technical Lead
AGILiAD Technologies, Pune Sr.SW.Engineer
Quick Heal Technologies, Pune Senior Engineer
UST Global, Bangalore Senior Validation Engineer
ES college of Engineering Lecturer
HCL Info-systems, Pondicherry Graduate Apprentice
Roles and Responsibilities
• Intel : Hardware Engineer
o Working with iVE NXV PnP team on IO accelerator’s
o Looking into DSA from PnP test cases for BW characterization.
o Collecting required event trace logs for bandwidth short fall and work with cross group to
check expectations /limitations of IP.

• Wipro : Lead for Power and Performance execution team

o Guided a team of 12 members and client interaction on day today task assignment and
follow up on closure.
o Working on optimizing the Power and Performance targets based on industry standard
benchmarks.
o Run Power and Performance KPI’s and own execution /experiments.
o Analyze logs and TDP of silicon and frequencies to achieve targets.
o Interaction with stake holders for status update and to mentor the team.

• UST Global: POST Silicon Validation, BIOS Validation & Platform Validation and Debug
o Good experience in functional testing of SoC validation, BIOS validation and Platform
Validation
o Hands on experience in Debug & Triage for BIOS and Soc Platform issues and to find out
the regression Change list build which causing the issue
o Hands on experience & Specialized in Intel Power Management testing. (System Sleep
States, CPU Sleep States, Device Power states, BUS Link Power states (USB & PCIe BUS))
o Good at sighting life cycle, Sysdebug report and tracking of SLA.
o Good at collection of serial logs for hung issues.

Achievements
Have got Excellence award form client around 3 times for contribution to Functional validation.
Have got People mindset award for lead role.
Our team got excellence award for contribution towards ICL Triage.
Have been appreciated for finding more defects on Skylake silicon bugs.

Personal Details
Date of Birth: 25nd Oct 1982
Languages Known: English, Tamil
Permanent Address: #5/10, Kuyavar St,
Maharajapuram, Villupuram.
Tamil Nadu- 605602