# Yash Kothari > Sr. Product Development Engineer at AMD Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yashkothari1 ## Work Experience ### Senior Product Development Engineer @ AMD Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Development Engineer 2 @ AMD Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Implementation Manager @ LeanTaaS Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Santa Clara, California, United States • Analyzed large healthcare datasets, worked closely with clinicians to identify operational inefficiencies, and developed product features to maximize volume growth and patient access while reducing wait times and staffing overtime • Defined required data, applied mathematical modeling, and built pragmatic optimization solutions to drive clinical productivity • Built external facing dashboards to graphically illustrate operational performance and clinician engagement to improve efficiency • Supported customers post-deployment by determining if a solution update is required by monitoring key customer performance metrics •Improved product feature offerings by providing customer feedback to internal cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Engineering and Business Solutions teams •Develop effective go-live programs with partners to ensure that products and feature releases are tested before broad-scale deployment •Perform implementation reviews, advocate new product features, and ensure the prompt and proper resolution of technical challenges ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Data Analyst and Operations Co-Op @ Delta Air Lines Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area Wheel Shop Demand Forecasting •Built a predictive model that accounts for past data’s seasonality, trend and constraints to forecast workload demand in wheel-shop •Utilized Winter- Holt’s model to attain less than 3% prediction error, and performed cost-benefit analysis on the predicted data to determine headcount needed in the wheel shop and reduce over-time costs •Assisted leadership in capital planning of $150,000 for the Wheel Shops and built Macros that solved Linear programming problem to automate monthly forecasting reports Process Improvement to reduce Configuration Errors •Utilized SAS EG to analyze Configuration Errors data from Teradata to find the trends and top drivers contributing to these errors •Created process maps, collected feedback from technicians to better understand the problems that occur and find scope for improvement •Visited Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Miami stations to create product portfolios and rationalize product life cycle to reduce complexity in the Integrated Parts Catalogue (IPC) that simplified operations and increased efficiency Ad-Hoc Projects •Analyzed First Flight Delays (FFD0) data to understand vital causes and communicated the results to improve performance •Built Tableau Dashboard and automated monthly reports to highlight stations affected by A220 performance •Built Macros and utilized SAS EG to automate chart generation in monthly Line Maintenance Review report •Created Tableau dashboards to show monthly Aircraft Damages and Human Operational Difficulty Index (ODI) trend ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Design Intern @ Sea Deep Shipyard Pte. Ltd. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Singapore Project Title: Design of a Gearbox for Conversion of Hydraulic to Electric Jacking System • Examined the existing hydraulic system to estimate the output for the proposed electric mechanism • Designed a three-step reduction gearbox to replace hydraulic motor with an electrically driven mechanism • Optimized gear ratio to achieve a reduction of 290.1 and addressed the power, material and space constraints • Developed a low maintenance system that eliminated the need of hydraulic oil, filters, valves and hoses ### Technical Head of Vehicle Dynamics Department @ Team Saksham International (TSI) - Baja SAE International Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Vellore Institute Of Technology (VIT), Chennai Team Saksham International is an off-road car racing team which represents VIT University, Chennai and India in the prestigious SAE Baja racing event held in USA and India. The objective is to design and manufacture off-road vehicles and participate in Baja racing events. • Co-ordinated with team of 35 members to build an off-road vehicle and participate in three competitions viz: Baja Student India 2015, Baja Student India 2016 and SAE Baja Rochester 2016 • Led a team of 8 people to design and manufacture the suspension system components for Baja ATV 2015 • Simulated the designs in ANSYS and MSC ADAMS and analyzed the results to develop an efficient vehicle • Collected and analyzed data to obtain the best orientations of FOX Evol R and Fox Float shocks for Baja ATV 2016 • Presented and defended the suspension design at the Design Events in Baja SAE Rochester and Baja Student India • Developed the business and marketing strategy of the team and presented it at Baja SAE Rochester and Baja Student India to convert the project into a viable business • Organized an online team fund-raising campaign with wishberry.com to raise USD 3900 • Conducted a workshop on Automobiles for AutomoVITe Club of VIT to encourage enthusiastic students in joining the club ### Production Analyst and Quality Assurance Intern @ Tata Motors Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India Project Title: Direct Run Loss (DRL) Reduction • Examined the recurring defects that occur during the assembly of the vehicle’s cab on the Trim Line to determine the root cause • Analyzed the tabulated observations identified by the Quality department and modified assembly processes to improve optimization • Investigated the priority defects at their sources to eliminate defect creation ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Industrial Engineering Purdue University ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Mechanical Engineering Vellore Institute of Technology ### Vidya Bhavan,Pune ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yashpk --- Source: https://flows.cv/yashkothari1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yashkothari1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05