Srivi Dhruvanarayan, M.S.
Vice President, Hardware Engineering, SiMa.ai
Srivi is Vice President of Hardware Engineering at SiMa.ai, a machine learning company delivering software-centric, purpose-built MLSoC™ platforms for the embedded edge market. These platforms are utilized across various applications, including robotics, healthcare, industrial drones, agriculture, fintech, and the automotive industry, as well as other use cases in the embedded edge market. He is also a founding member of SiMa.ai.
In this role, Srivi is responsible for the architecture, design, verification, validation, and production of System-on-a-Chip (SoC) chips. He also oversees the design and productization of the various platforms that utilize these chips. He has teams in multiple geographical locations, and he leads the cross-functional development across these centers. Along with many years of senior management experience, Srivi possesses a strong background in hardware architecture, design, microarchitecture, and all aspects of chip design, validation, and eventual productization.
Prior to SiMa.ai, Srivi was one of the architect and design leads at Groq.com. Founded by ex-Google employees, Groq specializes in producing AI inference chips—a type of semiconductor that optimizes speed and executes commands of pre-trained ML models. Srivi played a key role in developing the first version of the chip, which is currently in successful use.
As a tech lead at Barefoot Networks, Srivi was responsible for architecting and overseeing the implementation of significant clusters within a 12.8 Tbps programmable chip. Srivi also spent ten years at Ericsson, where he worked as a leading architect. He played an integral role in the latest generation of Ericsson NPU. Earlier in his career, Srivi was a senior development engineer at Alcatel USA, where he worked on a 10-gigabit switch/router product, and at National Semiconductor, he led a team working on a networking chip for Wireless LAN.
Srivi has driven multiple concepts to final products that have been first-time successes and generated millions of dollars of revenue.
Srivi holds 16 patents in machine learning, networking, and various other chip features and has also presented at numerous conferences and symposiums. He earned a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications from B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bangalore University.