Arjun Menon is the Co-founder and Chief Engineer of InCore Semiconductors. He was one of the key architects driving the SHAKTI processor program at IIT Madras and was instrumental in designing India’s first indigenously developed RISC-V processor. At IIT Madras, he was the lead architect of a custom ISA-based processor, designed for one of India’s strategic agencies. He was also the tech lead for a custom SoC for Indian Space Research Organisation.