Gaurav Anand

Synopsys

R&D Staff Software Engineer

Current role

Intellismith

Software Engineer (Grade: Deputy Manager)

• Partnered with product managers to understand domain business requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions, including low-latency API development, Kubernetes deployment, and production releases.
• Built an internal RAG-based tool using LangChain + sentence-transformers to index payment APIs, partner bank docs, IA docs, and reconciliation rules into a FAISS vector store for natural-language lookup of transaction flows, error codes, and settlement logic.

Cadence Design Systems

Software CM Engineer II

• Improved synchronization in Xcelium's multicore simulation engine using finer-grained/atomic approaches, removal of custom barriers, and lock-free queues to lower overhead in parallel workloads.
• Led cross-platform migration of an 11M+ LOC simulator codebase from Linux/GCC (C++11) to macOS/Clang (C++17), resolving threading, system-call, memory-mapping and toolchain differences.
• Debugged intermittent defects using Undo time-travel debugging, reducing customer incidents.

Interra Systems

C++ Developer

• Developed a compiler for a memory description language using Flex and Bison with LALR parsing, AST construction and semantic validation.

Texas Instruments

Software Engineer

• Worked on DFT for TI mmWave automotive radar SoCs.
• Worked on mmWave SDK peripheral drivers/interfaces including SPI and UART for device communication, configuration and low-level debugging.