Kiran Malwankar VP of System Engineering, Tachyum

Tachyum Inc. appointed Kiran Malwankar to the position of VP of system engineering.

The 30-year veteran of both pre-IPO companies and industry leaders, holds 21 U.S. patents in technologies such as I/O virtualization, PCIe, storage virtualization, and flash/solid-state media.

He joins the company after founding and/or joining a series of start-ups that delivered innovations in memory, AI, IoT, cloud, and flash devices; five of these companies were acquired and one went public. In addition, he has held executive and senior-level engineering positions at dominant vendors such as Cisco, Violin Memory, Nishan Systems/McDATA, and Aprius/FusionIO.

He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai.

“I am honored to oversee Tachyum’s breakthrough processor architecture and bring it to today’s most interesting applications and environments – HPC, hyperscalers, AI, deep ML, edge computing and IoT,” he said.

Among its professional achievements and patents are new high-speed bus protocols, circuit board design, FPGA design, processor-agnostic storage, and non-volatile memory. His engineering and design work is cross-functional, incorporating product management, marketing, and manufacturing, to deliver advancements in computing.

“Kiran has a rare combination of experience in complex compute, storage, and networkng systems, plus the vision and strategy required to bring pioneering products to perfection,” said Dr. Radoslav “Rado” Danilak, Tachyum CEO. “With Kiran leading our system engineering team, Tachyum, a fabless semiconductor company, is now building a world-class organization to deliver solutions, including reference designs, to our partners and customers next year, to accelerate widespread adoption of our chip products across multiple markets.”