Sivachandaran Sakthivel

• ILead the Hardware Design & Development team for high-speed, HDI, and complex PCB designs across domains such as Server, IoT, Industrial, and Power electronics.
• Drive the end-to-end PCB development lifecycle, including schematic design reviews, PCB layout reviews, CAM reviews, fabrication, and PCBA query resolution.
• Partner with clients during initial proposals, effort estimations, and Statement of Work (SOW) creation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility.
• Oversee vendor selection and management for PCB fabrication and assembly, ensuring quality, delivery, and cost optimization.
• Responsible for team leadership and people management: hiring, onboarding, mentoring, task allocation, KPI tracking, and performance reviews.
• Facilitate professional development workshops and technical training sessions to upskill junior engineers and foster a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, Thermal, Mechanical, Testing, and Validation) to ensure compliance with DFx (Design for Manufacturability, Assembly, Test, and Reliability) requirements.
• Champion process standardization and automation initiatives, creating tools, checklists, and workflows that improved efficiency, consistency, and accuracy.
• Lead client meetings and technical discussions, providing solutions to complex design challenges and maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Drive risk identification and mitigation strategies during design and development phases to ensure first-pass success.
• Contribute hands-on to PCB design tasks where required, providing technical expertise in high-speed routing, stack-up planning, and constraint management.
• Act as the engineering point of contact for escalations, resolving technical roadblocks and coordinating solutions with global teams.

• Deputed to client site (Wipro, Bangalore, India) to lead and support PCB design activities.
• Led a design team with end-to-end responsibility for PCB design delivery, ensuring quality and timely execution.
• Collaborated closely with MCAD, Signal Integrity (SI), and Power Integrity (PI) engineers to meet design and performance requirements.
• Performed CAM validation and coordinated with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors to resolve engineering queries and ensure manufacturability.

• Led the design team with full responsibility for delivering complex PCB designs, including Google SBC (Single Board Computer) and Raspberry Pi SBC board projects.
• Conducted CAM validation to ensure manufacturability and compliance with design rules.
• Coordinated with PCB fabrication and assembly vendors to address engineering queries and ensure successful board builds.

• Designed and delivered DC-DC converter modules and high-power, high-voltage (600V) backplane PCBs, ensuring reliability and safety compliance.
• Collaborated with MCAD and ECAD teams to optimize mechanical–electrical integration and layout efficiency.
• Performed CAM validation and coordinated with fabrication and assembly vendors to ensure manufacturability and resolve engineering queries.
• Planned and executed cable routing strategies and supported board bring-up activities for successful validation.

• Led a team and managed multiple PCB design projects across Industrial, Aerospace, and Consumer Electronics domains.
• Provided end-to-end PCB design support, including CAM validation, and coordinated with fabrication and assembly vendors to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.

Contributed to Industrial, Consumer Electronics, and Automated Test Equipment (ATE) board projects, providing PCB design support, conducting CAM validation, and coordinating with fabrication and assembly vendors to ensure successful board builds.