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What are your main responsibilities in your current role?
A typical day at work, for me, is laying out a chip design, as an Implementation Engineer. My main roles include, but not limiting to:

• Implementing a design in a hardware environment (but this is done by software visualisations)
•  Floorplanning what goes where on the chip (starting from logic gates, flops, memories and to every bit of wire connections)
• While keeping in mind that the design has to meet target area, power and frequency, in the real world
• Liaising with engineers from other departments, as every project requires multidisciplinary engineering.

Apart from the direct roles, I also aid and solve issues my colleagues are faced with. I also help in bringing new graduates upto speed with the work we do and also provide continual support to them. As an add on I am the Team Arm Champion for the 91Ö±²¥ Arm Office. In this role, I head and manage all our volunteering/ community engagement/ educational outreach and fundraising initiatives, per year.

Please outline your career history/how did you get to where you are today?
I completed my Bachelors in Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering, in the year 2016, from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India. After my undergraduation, I joined as a Global Software Engineer in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). However, I really wanted to do my Masters, for which I had started the process of in March 2016. As the application processes, both with the university and for visa, were a success, I resigned from my role in HPE and started prepping to catch a flight to 91Ö±²¥. I joined 91Ö±²¥, in the same year, to start my Masters degree course, on a Student Visa (Tier 4). I then completed my Masters in Science (Eng), Advanced Control and Systems Engineering, in the year 2017 (formal graduation ceremony was in January 2018). And soon after completing my Masters dissertation, I joined Arm as a Graduate Implementation Engineer, in September 2017. This is when I applied, through my company, to convert my existing Student Visa (Tier 4) to a Skilled Worker Visa (Tier 2 General). Following which I have been working at Arm, on a Tier 2 Visa, since February 2018. I have progressed since to an Implementation Engineer and am looking forward to my current role and future progressions.

Why did you want to come to the University of 91Ö±²¥ to study your chosen degree?
It was offering the best course in the UK in the domain I wanted to do my masters in, in terms of the course content and modules on offer.

What were your favourite things about/best memories of the University of 91Ö±²¥?
The friendly atmosphere!

Please explain how has your qualification and/or time at 91Ö±²¥ helped you in your career?
It helped me to get me a job in a core electronics company which I had wanted to work in since starting my undergraduate degree.

What has been your greatest achievement to date?
Being part of a tape-out project, which is coming out in April 2021.