Meet the industry mentors
Working engineers from semiconductor product and EDA companies who review your work, run your mocks and open their networks to you. Every mentor is verified by the Silicawafer team.
Verified mentorEx-Marvell TechnologyArjun Verma
Founder & Lead Mentor — ASIC Design
Designed and verified SOC IP blocks that shipped in enterprise storage silicon. Arjun personally maps every mentee's week-by-week plan and joins the final mock interview.
Verified mentorNXP SemiconductorsSrinivas Rao
Senior Staff Engineer — Physical Design
Closed timing on automotive SoC blocks at 16nm and 7nm. Srinivas teaches the PD flow the way teams actually run it — constraints first, tools second.
Verified mentorAmazon Annapurna LabsRahul Menon
Senior Engineer — RTL Verification
Builds UVM environments for custom silicon that powers AWS infrastructure. Famous among mentees for making assertions finally make sense.
Verified mentorMarvell TechnologyKavya Iyer
Lead Engineer — Design for Test
Owns DFT architecture for networking SoCs. Kavya reviews mentee ATPG projects line by line until coverage closure becomes muscle memory.
Verified mentorMathWorksNikhil Reddy
Senior Application Engineer — Model-Based Design
Helps chip teams simulate and generate hardware from MATLAB/Simulink models. Nikhil covers the embedded lane and the math behind it.
Verified mentorMarvell TechnologySneha Kulkarni
Staff Engineer — Analog & Mixed-Signal Layout
Laid out high-speed SerDes and PLL blocks across five process nodes. Sneha teaches matching, parasitics and the quiet art of clean analog floors.
Verified mentorQualcommVikram Shetty
Senior Engineer — Design Verification
Verifies camera & compute IPs that ship in billions of phones. Vikram runs our regression-themed mock interviews and referral drives.
Verified mentorCadence Design SystemsDivya Nair
Principal Engineer — STA & Signoff
Signs off timing methodology used by dozens of tape-outs. Divya demystifies multi-mode multi-corner STA until it feels like arithmetic.
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Pick your mentor & slot
Choose the engineer whose domain matches your goal, and a slot that fits your college timetable.
Share your profile & goals
Send your semester, subjects you enjoyed, current skills and target companies — your mentor comes prepared.
Get your week-by-week plan
Leave the call with a personalized roadmap, the projects to build first and honest feedback on your gaps.