# Krishna Priyanka Bhavaraju > Turning sand grains into world's best computing brains! Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/krishnapriyankabhavaraju Experienced Physical Design Verification Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry. Skilled in Tcl-Tk, Layout Verification, Python, Physical Design, and VLSI. Deep Learning ( Computer Vision ) enthusiast. ## Work Experience ### Senior Physical Design Engineer @ NVIDIA Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Physical Design Intern @ NVIDIA Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Minnesota Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States ### Lead Product Validation Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India Responsibility: Pegasus Tool Validation •Worked on Pegasus Physical Verification System Fill batch flow validation. •Worked on Virtuoso iPegasus GUI fill flow integration/validation. •Tested functionality of various Density(DFM) and Fill Pegasus tool commands and options and reported issues to R&D Engineers. •Validated and created test scenarios for enhancement Fill/DFM features as requested by various customers. •Worked for multiple customers and foundries(3nm-28nm) •Knowledge of DRC and Dummy Rule decks written in Physical verification Language(PVL).Can create custom rule decks. •Carried out Performance and Regression testing. •Was part of global team collaborating across US, Ireland, Taiwan, India and Shanghai. ### Physical Design Verification Engineer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Bangalore Physical Verification Engineer of 10nm SOCs and IPs in Intel's XPG. • Worked on DRC, LVS, Density, Antenna violations and other physical verification flows in several complex partitions with multi-million gate count until signoff closure. • Implemented Timing Closure ECOs (set up, hold, max trans, max cap), Functional ECOs such as Buffer Insertions ,Logic Gate Insertions, Complex logical ECOs, RV,EM,IR and crosstalk violation fixes ,Net improvements, upsize/downsize cells,etc. • Was part of a 5 member team from Intel SDG leading to the closure of 70+ partitions critical to “Icelake Processor” handled at client development center & driven until tape-in. • Well versed with Tcl scripting to fix huge DRC and Density violations. • Knowledge of partition level SDBUILD (ICC2 synthesis and APR2 flows) Intel HDK flows. • Trained in Physical Design and performed Floorplanning to Timing Signoff at block level in 28nm node using Synopsys ICC2,STAR RC and PrimeTime. • Knowledge of Python and Perl scripting. ### External Internship Program 4.0 @ The School of A.I. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru Area, India Phase 1(Completed): A 5 week hands-on course on latest CNN architectures and techniques. Qualifier: Built a "Person Attribute Classifier" neural network trained from scratch,on a custom data set which we had prepared and annotated for 8 classes-to detect a person’s gender, age, weight, carryingbag, footwear, emotion, bodypose & image quality. ### Physical Design Trainee @ ChipEdge Technologies Pvt Ltd Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bangalore COURSE OUTLINE: VLSI Fundamentals, CMOS Basics.Hand-on experience in Floor Planning, Power Planning, Placement, Clock Tree Synthesis, Routing, Timing analysis and Optimization, Physical Verification,SPEF generation and ECO flow. TOOLS USED: ICC2, Star-RC, IC Validator, Prime Time. ### Test Automation Engineer @ Verizon Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India Worked as an Automation Test Engineer responsible for writing automation scripts, regression testing and maintenance of applications using UFT and Selenium. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota ### ECE Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering (Autonomous) ### Kendriya Vidyalaya ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/krishna-priyanka-bhavaraju --- Source: https://flows.cv/krishnapriyankabhavaraju JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/krishnapriyankabhavaraju/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13