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title: "Raktim Malakar - Lead Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Raktim Malakar, R&D@Cadence | Ex-Wells Fargo | IIEST, Shibpur based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and codex."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/raktim-malakar/share-image"
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# Raktim Malakar on Tal

## Headline

R&D@Cadence \| Ex\-Wells Fargo \| IIEST, Shibpur

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

gemini

ChatGPT

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Lead Software Engineer at Cadence, Jan 2026 \- Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software engineer II at Cadence, Jul 2024 \- Dec 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, • Designed and implemented multiple features in Protium to achieve QoR, compile time and frequency targets for customers\. • Worked on proprietary core compiler transformation techniques to enhance emulation performance\.

Software Engineer at Cadence, Dec 2022 \- Jul 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, • Worked on feature development and performance improvements in design emulator \(Protium and Palladium\) compiler\. • Re\-modelled ALU synthesis for QoR improvement and compile time by 50% for ALU Full\-vision flow\. • Customer design debug for faster bring\-up\.

Software Engineer at Wells Fargo, Jul 2021 \- Dec 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed a regex based static code analysis tool in python to extract information \(module level dependencies, generating dependency charts, creating clusters and reports\) from a code base having 400\+ scripts Re\-designing and implementing ETL pipelines to optimize process flows, improving runtime and facilitate concurrency\.

Intern at Data Facade, Jan 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Remote, Designed and developed the UI in React from scratch\. Wrote custom components to improve UI experience, used react\-query, implemented lazy\-scrolling to replace pagination and improve the performance, wrote tree\-based dynamic forms\.

Deep Learning Intern at Sears, Aug 2019 \- May 2020 · 10 mos, Task was to understand Generative Adversarial Networks\. Specifically worked on to understand StyleGAN and generate apparel and shoe designs

Non Instrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit \(NILMTK\) and Energy Disaggregation at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, May 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Worked on Non Intrusive Load Monitoring Toolkit\(NILMTK\) and Energy Disaggregation\. Developed a high\-level Experimentation API to provide a user\-friendly interface for research in energy disaggregation\. Implemented Mean, Zero algorithms for benchmarking and OnlineGRU and RNN for API testing\. Built a cross\-platform conda\-package to simplify NILMTK installation for end users and fix dependency issues\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Information Technology, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology \(IIEST\), Shibpur

Senior Secondary, Julien Day School \- India

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