# Aruna Unni

> Lead Customer Program Manager - AI Datacenter | Nvidia

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arunaunni

Specialties: Technical Program Management; Product Development & management; Silicon Applications; Silicon Design & Verification;

## Work Experience
### Lead Customer Program Manager - AI Datacenter @ NVIDIA
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
-Engage directly with Tier1 CSPs to design, develop, and deploy accelerated computing platform in the cloud. 
-Provide technical guidance on server system design with the subject matter experts.
-Build schedule, resolve any blocking issues, and keep the project on-track.
-Ensure implementation of customer-required features
-Timely customer acceptance and production deployment
-Collaborate cross-functionally to align customers and internal teams throughout the program.
-Share and report project status, challenges, and insights with senior management.
-Continuous incorporation of valuable insights from learnings

### Principal Technical Program Manager & Mission Control Lead - Xeon Design Engineering Group @ Intel Corporation
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States
• Own Pre & Post Silicon CPU design milestones, post-Si bring-up, power-on to customer production release for $20-30B LTR products, highly visible role in the Xeon Design Engineering Organization
•  Worked on Program cost reduction, resulting in $$M++ savings
•	Proactive Risk Analysis and Status Communication to cross-functional teams and executive management
•	Manage all change control into the next generation Xeon Products 
•	Track and coordinate – Silicon engineering deliverables, key milestones and qualification/validation tasks in the NPI phase
•	Create and fix collaboration, processes, tools between cross functional teams to improve productivity
•	Drive internal and external product demand for NPI and drive forecast

### Senior Technical Program Manager, Product & Platform Marketing @ AMD
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States
•(Xilinx-AMD) World-wide NPI Management, Onboarding of customers & partners into the NPI program
•Defined and Created systems for the customer’s journey towards product adoption resulting in additional sales worth $10M+
•Customer Program Management of Automotive accounts worth $1B
•Drive alignment across Engineering teams, Business Units, Marketing & Sales team
•Proactive Risk Analysis and status updates to all major stake holders using JIRA/Confluence/JAMA/Tableau Dashboards
•High visibility role within the Central and Business Units, across the Engineering/Sales/Marketing organizations
•Mentor and People management of other Program Managers
•Technical Program Management across Silicon, Software and Board product lines of Product planning scope versus market requirements

### Senior Technical Program Manager, Customer Technology Deployment @ AMD
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California, United States
•(Xilinx-AMD) Manage Customer programs from pre-sales to implementation, execution, into production. Customer Programs include - Automotive Applications, Data Center, 5G Wireless, FPGAs-as-a-service, Wired comms/Cable worth $200M+
•High visibility role within the Engineering/Global Sales/Marketing organizations.
•Track customer requirements into specific tasks for internal teams
•Primary Interface for the customer with the Xilinx sales/marketing team, silicon/software team and vice-versa to enable creating the appropriate product solutions for a customer
•Manage project deadlines with inputs from several cross-functional teams within the Engineering, Marketing and Sales teams
•Solution validation focused on current product solution in addition to planning and creating focused solutions for future products

### Program Manager & Lead Applications Engineer, Customer Technology Deployment @ AMD
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, California, United States
•(Xilinx-AMD) Program Management & creation of clear product solutions taking into account customer requirements.
•Program management of hardware and software team deliverables 
•Debug, track and provide resolutions for silicon functionality, software and timing issues for customers
•Report issues, track bugs and communication back to internal Engineering teams
•Drive Customer issues to closure by pulling together tiger teams of technical expert(s) within Engineering teams

### Sr. IC Design Engineer, Silicon Design Team @ AMD
Jan 1998 – Jan 2010 | San Jose, California, United States
•(Xilinx-AMD) Logic Design, Implementation and Verification of high-speed Clocking elements on Xilinx FPGA’s.
•Software and Customer Support, Liaison between the hardware team and the software team to create customer views and usability features for the Clocking elements.
•Resolution of functionality & timing issues for Xilinx customers by Collaborating with hardware and software teams to identify and resolve issues
•Full chip functional verification of Xilinx Virtex products. 
•CAD flows for Verilog Support for VCS, NC-Verilog, Spice library generation

### Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept of Electronics and Telecommunications @ Texas A&M University
Jan 1996 – Jan 1997 | College Station, Texas, United States

### System Design Engineer @ Forbes Marshall
Jan 1995 – Jan 1996
Worked on Distributed Control Systems, building programmable system level solutions


## Education
### M.S in Computer Engg
Texas A&M University
Jan 1996 – Jan 1998

### B.E in Instrumentation & Control
Cummins College of Engineering, Pune, India
Jan 1991 – Jan 1995


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aruna-unni-8661852

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Last updated: 2026-04-07