# Venkata Anish Akella > Staff Design Engineer Location: Milpitas, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/venkataanishakella Staff Design Engineer @ SanDisk (Western Digital) | Crafting innovative mixed-signal solutions for cutting-edge storage technology | Passionate about low-power and high speed memory architecture for analog and digital design, simulation, and validation ## Work Experience ### Staff Design Engineer @ Sandisk Jan 2025 – Present | Milpitas, California, United States ### Senior Design Engineer @ Western Digital Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Milpitas, California, United States ### Activity Director @ Mavericks India Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad Area, India Managing the ghraphic design team and Influencing design-led thinking across the business. Lead concept development in relation to design and creative outputs. Take a lead role in managing the design and creative elements of projects. Develop creative programs and design concepts that meet the business objectives of the organization and that advance our brand and proposition strategy ### Teacher and Activity Lead @ Camp Diaries NGO Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India Camp Diaries is an NGO that reaches out to Underprivileged schools to help in the task of educating children about various extracurricular and co-curricular subjects and skills. Camp Diaries is in association with Teach for India Campaign led by the Indian Government. ### Intern - VLSI Design @ Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India • Created design modules in VHDL to assist in platform adoption in the projects from microcontrollers to FPGAs. • Performed analysis on various FPGAs that satisfy the pre-existing design conditions for projects. ### Intern - Product incubation and Marketing @ ORL Hyderabad Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India • Succeeded in FPGA based product development and marketing for a project on "4 - Way traffic light controller and monitoring system". • Presented a sales pitch to investors to adopt the FPGA based technology into their arrangement. ### Intern @ BSNL Telecom Factory Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hyderabad Area, India ## Education ### Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Florida Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anishakella --- Source: https://flows.cv/venkataanishakella JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/venkataanishakella/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07