Ahmet Akyildiz

Senior Manager, Technical Program Management, ML TPU Systems at Google

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Engineering and program management leader with a 26-year track record of delivering impactful results. Over the last decade, I played a pivotal role in the inception and expansion of the ML-TPU systems at Google, serving as the lead program manager for the entire portfolio.

Experience

  • Senior Manager, Technical Program Management, ML TPU Systems at Google
    Oct 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 9 mos

  • Design Manager at Silicon Laboratories
    Jan 2011 - Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Managed IC design team in timing group with a staff of 5 engineers. Design lead and program manager for various products including low cost, low power clock generators for consumer applications as well as high performance, low jitter clock generators/buffers for networking systems. Successfully launched 10+ products. Design responsibilities included supporting product definition, writing specifications, analog/digital design implementation, verification, debugging and silicon validation. Program management responsibilities included managing schedule from product proposal to mass production, leading cross-functional teams, resolving technical issues, managing risks, communicating status and supporting customer.

  • Design Engineering Manager at Spectra Linear
    Feb 2006 - Jan 2011 · 5 yrs

    Led consumer/embedded product lines. Directly managed 4 design engineers. Was responsible for the development of high performance timing products (silicon/hardware/software) with strict time-to-market requirement. Managed cross-functional team and all aspects of product development flow; definition, design, characterization, test, production release, software and customer support. Released more than 30 timing devices into production resulting over 10 million units in shipment to major customers.

  • Staff Design Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor
    Dec 2001 - Feb 2006 · 4 yrs 3 mos

  • Design Engineer at International Microcircuits (Acquired by Cypress)
    Nov 2000 - Dec 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos