Miguel brings 16 years of industry experience to Esencia. He worked as Sr. architect at NVIDIA mobile division in the definition and modeling of several video encoder / decoders (H.264 / VC-1 and VP8) and other video processing related functions. Prior to that, Miguel worked as ASIC designer and architect for Intel in the networking division leading the development of high speed classification engines used in multi-gigabit Ethernet switches/router ASICs. Miguel brings extensive experience in Firmware development and systems design. Miguel holds 10+ patents in high speed look-up engines and holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Politcnica de Valencia, Spain

Alpesh brings 10+ years of ASIC and SOC design experience. Before joining Esencia, Alpesh worked at Intel as a staff design engineer and worked on several SOC products and led implementation of many complex ASIC designs. His primary expertise is in ASIC digital design in area of Ethernet switch/router, Microprocessor and Memory Subsystem design and Video compression. Alpesh holds M.S.E.E from California State University. Alpesh holds 4 patents in digital design of memory subsystem.

Ravi Satrawada worked as a Senior Manager at RF MicroDevices, Calif. At RFMD he worked on several SOC Designs addressing 802.11, GPS and GSM products. Prior to RFMD, he was the Hardware Director of ComtTier Inc, Calif., a subsidiary of Andrew Corporation. At ComTier, Ravi and his team successfully deployed PCI Geo-stationary Satellite Modem products including two complex SoC’s implementing the statellite modem. Prior to ComTier Ravi Satrawada worked at Stanford Telecom, Calif. and Wipro India. He carries over 15 years of experience in System Level Architecture and ASIC Design products and about 8 years of management experience in the ASIC Design and verification. His primary contribution as individual contributor has been on implementing complex DSP algorithms and network protocols used in PHY and MAC layers of Wireless LAN, Satellite, LMDS and WLL systems. Ravi Satrawada continues to offer his consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and start-ups including BroadCom, SiBeam, HStream and Amicus in Silicon Valley. Ravi Satrawada holds MS degree in Telecommunications from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.