About Us

Yaseen Ahamed is a young founder and the CEO of LeadSoc Technologies. He has more than a decade of technical experience in physical design and verification of aggressive SoCs in advanced nodes like 14nm, 10nm and 7nm (including some of the most successful mobile chipsets). He is a serial entrepreneur with a vision to provide top notch end-to-end Design services covering VLSI/SoC, Software and Systems. He has a passion for building teams with exceptional talent. He strongly believes in delivering value to client by providing exceptionally innovative design services. He is a diligent planner and works hard on developing customized business strategies for various segments. His holistic approach ensures in creating a mutually beneficial business environment for customers, partners, employees, and all stakeholders.

He started his career at L&T Technological Services (LTTS) and later worked at few startups. The stint at startups gave him valuable insights in creating & sustaining a viable business venture. He then moved out to start his own venture – LeadSoc in 2017!! He has a Masters in VLSI Design from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

M.N. Kumar, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) and Head of Engineering, comes with more than 3 decades of experience in multiple successful product startups and MNCs. He has nurtured and built teams to successfully design, deliver and support SoCs and SoC based systems to Tier-1 customers world wide.

He has worked at Microelectronics Group at ITI, Bangalore and ST Microelectronics, in Agrate, Italy before joining Arcus Technology, possibly India’s first fabless Chip Company, which was acquired by Cypress Semiconductors. In 2000, he left Cypress Semiconductor to co-found vEngines, an early innovator of packet voice processors for use in VoIP etc. vEngines was acquired by Centillium Communications where he lead engineering at for various product lines like Voice Processors, xDSL, EPON, Home Gateway etc.After Centillium merged withTranswitch, he was the head of the Bangalore Technology Center. In 2012, he started and led the India Operations of Aquantia Inc. Aquantia had its IPO in 2017 and was acquired by Marvell Semiconductors in 2019, where he was Sr. Director, before joining LeadSoC.

He holds a Masters degree in Microelectronics from IIT-Bombay. He is a Sr. Member of IEEE and past chairperson of the Nano Technology Council- IEEE Bangalore.

A seasoned professional with nearly three decades of experience primarily in Software Design services, in his current role he focusses on growing the business in VLSI & Embedded SW design services by enabling meaningful engagement with key players in the Telecom, Automotive, IOT & Healthcare. He has a rich experience of nurturing large Engineering engagements with annual revenues of 80+ M USD spanning a team of 1500+ spread across multiple offshore locations with clients across Americas, Europe & APAC. These engagements have been a mix of SLA based Managed services and Outcome based projects in Revenue Share. These engagements span Product SW development for CPE, Access, Edge & Core devices across Wireless, Wireline and IOT segments. He has also enabled business development by taking join value proposition with partners to address client projects which may require integration of specific 3rd party IP’s.

Prior to joining LeadSoc, he was the Senior Delivery Head for Telecom Product Engineering @ Tech Mahindra. Prior to this he has managed Delivery Head roles @ Wipro & Infosys Engineering Services for Telecom & ISV segments. He has good understanding of Telecom & IOT business and the Product Engineering Life Cycle. He believes in creating strong identity for LeadSoc through in-house Labs ( powered by open source ) for VLSI & Embedded Software which will enable to nurture a vibrant talent pool, foster innovation. He also believes that delivering value is key to creating customer loyalty, hence enabling business growth. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Engg ( Telecom ) from Bangalore University.

Long and deep experience in building, nurturing, leading & influencing teams in different cultures across India & US. He has worked in prestigious companies like Sasken, Ikanos, and Qualcomm in the area of Telecom, DSL, and Gateway products.

Senior Architect with over two decades of experience in designing & developing products for edge communication products.

He has extensive experience in HW & OS bring up, Drivers, Secure Boot ( TE), HAL / OSAL design, Performance & Stability analysis on Real time Systems. He also has extensively worked on RTL validation process, designing & developing build / debug tools for DSP architectures. He is familiar with FPGAs, x86, Freescale, ARM, Proprietary architectures. He has experience in designing Diagnostics frameworks for products and Diagnostic solutions for increasing yield in manufacturing. Debugging is his forte, He has a strong background in design tools & complex build systems. Strong leadership skills & passion for mentoring juniors in the team.

He has a wealth of experience working with Overseas Product Development groups of customers. Notable ones include the groups at Ericsson (Santa Clara, USA), Acton (Taiwan), Silicon Space Technology (USA), Airvana (MA, USA), Centillium Communications Inc. Fremont, California, USA, ZTE (China) and Alcatel Lucent, China

Satishbabu is Senior SME and has well over a decade of Experience in the Semiconductor Industry. He has extensive experience in various aspects of Digital Backend Design like Physical Design, STA, Synthesis, Formal Verification, Low Power Verification to name a few. He has managed end-to-end Backend Design implementation for ASIC/SOC based platforms. He has been involved in successful tape-out of multiple SOC’s for leading Semicon OEM’s, including several RTL to GDS. He has a passion for mentoring juniors and the is driving force behind the VLSI in-house Lab @ LeadSoc. He holds a Master’s degree ( M Tech ) in VLSI Design from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

Senior Architect with over two decades of experience in designing & developing products for core & edge communication products, wireline and wireless products. He has extensive experience in HW & Firmware bring up, OSAL design, Performance & Stability analysis on Real time Systems. He also has extensively worked on VoIP, GSM, Routing & Switching, RTL validation, designing, Firmware & DSP , Deep Learning (QCOM) architectures. He is familiar with FPGAs, x86, ARM. Debugging on complex field issues and crash resolutions is his forte. He has a strong background in design tools. He has a wealth of experience working with Overseas Product Development groups of customers. Notable ones include the groups at Lucent, Alcatel, Ikanos (Freemont), NTT Japan.

He holds a Master’s degree in Digital Communication from NIT, Calicut.

He has extensive experience in end-to-end product design involving various aspects like Hardware/ RF design with multilayer PCB, complex FPGA based designs, Semiconductor design including several ASIC/SoC, Verification and validation of silicon / hardware design , enclosure design, rapid prototyping, and compliance testing for various standards and reliability.

He has a wealth of experience working in USA and Europe and has worked with global customers like Nokia, Lucent, Intel, HP, Broadcom, ARM, NXP, Thales, Delphi