Prashant Patil is an experienced engineering professional currently serving as Director at Alphawave Semi since April 2023. Prior to this role, Prashant held the position of Senior Principal Engineer at Alphawave IP Group from September 2022 to April 2023 and at SiFive from June 2021 to September 2022, where also acted as Principal Engineer. Additional experience includes a role as Sr Staff Design Engineer at Marvell Technology and Sr Staff Engineer-II at SiFive. Earlier in the career, Prashant was a Principal Design Engineer at AppliedMicro, a Staff Design Engineer at Microsemi Corporation, and Module Leader at Wipro Technologies. Prashant's foundational experience includes work as a Design Engineer at Wavelet Group, focusing on low-level design documentation, RTL implementation, synthesis, static timing analysis, and power estimation. Educational background includes a BE in Electronics and Power from Nagpur University and a BTE from Mumbai.