Pushpal Das
PM, CTO’s office @ Ixana | Silicon & AI | Ex - SLB, ISRO
Bengaluru
4+ years of work experience
Mar 20242 yrs 7 mosPresent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Silicon & systems, AI programs and platforms and the patent program around them, run as one program from the CTO's office. Ixana makes Wi-R silicon for body-area and near-field connectivity.
• Silicon program: Silicon delivery across five functions on two sites: RTL, analog/mixed-signal and physical design in India, hardware and firmware in the US, on one schedule.
• AI programs and platforms: LLM and RAG tools built on one doctrine: deterministic counts, model-written prose, provenance on every claim, refusal where the data runs out. Pilots run with pre-agreed kill gates, so they ship or they stop.
• The operating layer of an R&D company: A patent program, the delivery reporting five teams run on, and workflows instrumented so a silent failure is impossible.
Jan 20244 mosApr 2024
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Owned three embedded hardware products end to end, from requirements to production handoff.
• WishKey electronic key cabinet: replaced a paper key register with an audited cabinet, with per-key accountability by RFID card plus PIN.
• Cost-effective smart watch: cut the bill of materials to a price Indian retail could carry while keeping heart-rate sensing and notifications. Traded the colour screen for battery life, on purpose.
• Condenser microphone: calibrated every unit at test instead of sorting capsules into bins, with passive transformer gain ahead of any active part.
Jan 20231 yrDec 2023
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
Made downhole electronics failures reproducible on a bench, then fed the fixes into the build standard.
• Sensor signal generator: built a bench that plays back downhole sensor faults on demand, so a failure analyst no longer waits for a well to reproduce one. Owned the problem choice and the bench's contract, with a LabVIEW developer and the calibration lab reviewing.
• Reproduced 55 of 56 catalogued fault modes; deployed across 40+ SLB failure-analysis labs.
• Board failure analysis: root-caused five recurring board failures across a resonant converter, its supply and post-regulator, and fed each fix back into the build standard.
Jul 20227 mosJan 2023
Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
Led a student team on a hyperspectral workflow that estimates surface mineral abundance from satellite bands, taking a field-sampling round out of the survey loop.
Pushpal’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and communication engineering.
SRM IST Chennai
20194 yrs2023
6 σ Black Belt, Business Administration and Management, General
Board of Regents of University System of Georgia
20232023
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