Jena Abraham is an accomplished Design Verification Engineer and Technical Program Manager with 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Currently serving as a Technical Program Manager at AMD, Jena specializes in verification strategy development and error resilience testing for complex memory systems, including Intel Optane Persistent Memory and NVM controllers.
As a technical leader, Jena has pioneered advanced verification methodologies for fault injection and error handling mechanisms that have been recognized by upper management for identifying critical corner-case bugs before silicon production. Her work on constraint-based randomization testing for cross-case scenarios involving power flows and error injections has significantly improved design robustness at tape-in.
Throughout her career at Intel, Wipro Technologies, Celstream Technologies, and VXL eTech, Jena has demonstrated exceptional leadership in cross-functional team environments. At Wipro, she progressed from a solo contributor to an onsite coordinator leading a team of 25 engineers, generating $10M in revenue. She played a pivotal role in converting a long-standing customer from Xilinx to Altera after a 10-year relationship, opening substantial new business opportunities.
Jena's technical expertise spans multiple protocols including PCIe, CXL, DDR4/5, USB, and Ethernet, with proficiency in verification methodologies like OVM and UVM. Her programming skills include Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, C, Python, TCL-TK, and Perl. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Pune University and a Post Graduate Diploma in VLSI.
Her contributions have been recognized with awards including the "Master Brain" award from Celstream Technologies for outstanding independent work on Thomson Silicon and Components hardware, and the "Thanks a Zillion" award from Wipro Technologies for her contributions to firmware bring-up efforts. Based in Portland, Oregon, Jena continues to leverage her technical acumen and strategic vision to drive innovation in semiconductor verification and program management.