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Vinayak Thonda is a highly accomplished professional with over 6 years of experience in diverse areas related to RTL Design, RTL Synthesis, RTL Simulation, VLSI flow, and computer architecture. He has a Master's Degree in VLSI & Micro Electronics Design and a Bachelor's Degree in ECE from IIT Kharagpur. Vinayak has worked with top companies such as AMD, IBM, Synopsys, and Xilinx, gaining extensive experience in software engineering, AI, and Python. Currently, Vinayak is a Senior SDE at AMD, where he provides hardware software co-simulation support and development in Vivado for Versal AI Engine devices. He is responsible for developing functional coverage features, statement coverage, branch coverage implementation, and condition coverage for System Verilog simulation. Additionally, Vinayak has developed an HTML CSS JS based reporting utility, stand-alone customer level Linux executable, and provided SystemC-Verilog mixed simulation support. He has also worked on performance optimization for system Verilog simulation and provided support and development for System Verilog, VHDL, Verilog, and System C RTL simulators. In his previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at Xilinx, Vinayak provided hardware software co-simulation and acceleration support and development in Vivado and Vitis designs for Versal AI Engine Series devices. He developed functional coverage features, statement coverage, branch coverage implementation, condition coverage implementation, and toggle coverage implementation for System Verilog. Vinayak also developed an HTML CSS JS based reporting utility, stand-alone customer level Linux executable, and provided SystemC-Verilog mixed simulation support. He has extensive experience in System Verilog features support and development, performance optimization for system Verilog simulation, and System Verilog, VHDL, Verilog, and System C RTL simulators. Vinayak's education background includes a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in VLSI & Micro Electronics from IIT Kharagpur. His tech stack includes software engineering, AI, and Python. With relevant experience of 6.44 years, Vinayak is a highly skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results.