Kamakshaiah Nelatur

With over 22 years of experience in hardware system design across various domains such as mobile, IoT, compute, industrial, and telecom, currently working with Qualcomm India in Hyderabad.

Involved in the design of reference and test platforms for Qualcomm Snapdragon application processors, power management ICs, audio codecs, and associated chipsets. Expertise lies in digital interfaces including eMMC, MIPI, PCIe, HDMI, USB, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, I2S, and SLIMBus. Extensive experience in memory interfaces such as DDR3/DDR4, LP4x/LP5x, PCIe, NAND, eMMC, and uSD. Strong background in low power supply designs, ASIC signal fan-out optimization, GPIO optimization, and system power tree analysis. Involved in all phases of product development from conceptual stages to high volume production release. Independent thinker and innovator, excelling at generating innovative design ideas and prototyping them. Expertise extends to analog, digital, and mixed-signal board design as well as power supply design and requirements. Proven leadership abilities in planning and leading projects by coordinating with cross-functional teams including marketing, CAD, vendors, mechanical engineers, software developers, ASIC/FPGA engineers, and factory production teams.

Experienced in mentoring teams to solve complex design issues and delivering projects on time with high quality. Skilled at requirement gathering from stakeholders and developing architecture. Proficient in preparing FDD (Functional Design Document) and HLDR (High-Level Design Review) documents while identifying risks early on. Extensive experience in hardware system design coupled with leadership abilities make a valuable asset in delivering successful designs on time with exceptional quality.

Design Manager skilled in building relationships and communicating complex concepts. Leads design team strategy to develop and accomplish team goals. Drives initiative and demonstrates excellent organization and communication in fast-paced dynamic environment and collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders for greatest potential impact.

Qualcomm India, Engineer Senior Staff/Manager, Design of internal platforms for Qualcomm chipsets., Lead multi-member cross functional teams to create & deliver support platforms for IoT and mobile chipsets., Executed multiple platform development projects with zero errors., Supported bring up activities and helped SW teams in debugging issues. 

Wipro Technologies, Complete development of 14-layer mother board for ATM termination functionality., Design of 32XE1 board for inter-working between ISDN PRI and Ethernet., Developed 16 layers board for circuit termination functionality. 

C-DoT, Developed a 6-layer Enhanced Terminal controller card., Designed 6 layers card using ADSP2184 DSP processor., Designed 4 layers card using ALTERA FPGA for time switch functionality.

22, Qualcomm India, Hyderabad, Telangana, Hardware Design Manager, 07/01/12, Present, Reference & Test platform design for Mobile & IoT based Qualcomm Snapdragon application processors., Power Management IC, Audio Codecs and associated chipset design., Experience with Digital interfaces of I2C, SPI, I2S, SLIMBus, eMMC, MIPI, HDMI, USB and Ethernet., Experience in Memory Interfaces – DDR3 / DDR4, LP4x/LP5, PCIe, NAND, eMMC and uSD., Experience in Low Power Supply designs, ASIC signal fan-out, GPIO optimization, System Power tree analysis., Experienced on digital hardware solutions including design, development, testing, debugging and documentation., Independent in generating innovative design ideas, conceptualizing and prototyping., Expertise in analog, digital and mixed-signal board design, Power supply design and requirements., Plan & Lead project by coordinating with cross functional teams., Experience in leading and mentoring teams to solve complex design issues.,

Wipro Technologies, Hyderabad, Telangana, 05/01/04, 07/01/12, Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), Bangalore, Karnataka, 01/01/01, 05/01/04