Alok Kuchlous
CEO and Founder

Alok has extensive experience in developing and deploying verification technologies. He has architected verification tools as well as used state of the art technologies to verify complex chips. Before starting Mirafra, he was the Director of Engineering at Synopsys, responsible for the VCS-MX and SystemVerilog solutions. Alok joined VCS when it was a 10 person team, and his contributions were instrumental in the VCS revenue growth from 10 million dollars to 120 million dollars. Alok has a MS in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Delhi.

Shyam Sunder Rao Padala
COO and Founder

Shyam has more than a decade of experience creating and delivering complex verification technologies. Having led many verification projects, he has a deep understanding of verification challenges faced by the leading design teams today. Before starting Mirafra, Shyam was one of the technical leaders in the Synopsys verification group. His technical leadership helped VCS in creating a differentiation against competition and led to multiple wins at customers. Shyam has a MS and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from University College of Eng. Osmania University , Hyderabad.

Sudipto Das
Vice President, Design Services Group

Sudipto has more than 12 years of experience in Physical Design. He has worked in Magma, Intel and Synopsys. He has been involved in multiple tapeouts ranging from 0.18u to 45nm technologies. At Magma he has worked on achieving signoff certification for Magma's Analysis (extraction & timing) tools - Quartz RC & Quartz Time. In Intel apart from driving various aspects of RTL2GDS he was responsible for implementing the clock tree synthesis of the entire digital portion of Whitefield - Intel India 's first indigenous effort to create the next generation 32 bit multi-core processor. In Synopsys, Sudipto played a key role in the success of Synopsys' Physical Synthesis solution. He holds a B.Tech. in ECE from IIT Kharagpur.