Anup Kini

Anup Kini has been working in the tech industry since 2008. Anup began their career as a Software Developer at Infosys Technologies Ltd, where they developed customised banking menus using HTML, J2EE, C/C++, and SQL. Anup also worked in the maintenance and support team, providing patches for live-customer bugs and was awarded the FINACLE On The Spot Award for their exceptional development skills and on-time performance.

In 2012, they moved to Synapticon GmbH as a System Engineer, where they designed and implemented a Partial Reconfiguration Engine on a custom ZYNQ platform and designed hardware accelerator modules on the FPGA to process USB-driven Kinect Sensor. Anup also enabled user IO access from Linux user-space for hardware modules on the FPGA.

In 2014, Anup Kini joined Morphing Machines as a Senior Member of Technical Staff, where they were responsible for multi-FPGA implementation of 256 node REDEFINE, using proFPGA and Xilinx Vivado tools and manual IP planning across 6 FPGAs. This work was presented at Hello Tomorrow 2016 in Paris and the 4th RISC-V Conference held at MIT. Anup also prototyped the REDEFINE accelerator on multiple Virtex-7 FPGA boards interconnected to Microblaze as the host processor and DDR3 as shared memory.

In 2018, Anup Kini joined AlphaICs Corporation as a MicroArchitect. Anup worked on design, RTL, module-level verification, power optimization, synthesis, and GLS. Anup was also responsible for all releases from the RTL team and was the point-of-contact for external IPs, DFT, PD, and Packaging team. Anup also worked with a PCB design vendor on the design of bring-up board and post-silicon validation.

Currently, Anup Kini is Lead Engineer at Synthara AG, a position they have held since 2021.

Anup Kini has a long and varied educational background. Anup began their studies in 1990 at Carmel High School, where they completed their secondary education in 2002. Anup then attended Carmel PU College and obtained a Pre-University degree in 2004. Following this, they graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Communication from Visvesvaraya Technological University in 2008. Finally, they completed a Master of Science (MS) in Communication Electronics from Linköping University in 2012.