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Srinivasan Venkataramanan (Srini) is a technology leader and entrepreneur with over 28 years of expertise in Semiconductor Chip Design, Verification, EDA, and GenAI. As the founder of AsFigo, he is a driving force in the transition toward open-source silicon ecosystems. Srini is a prolific contributor to open-source hardware toolchains, specializing in UVM and Verilator-based verification flows. He is a pioneer in integrating GenAI guardrails into chip design through innovative open-source projects like UVMLint and SVALint. A published author and global technical evangelist, he actively advocates for the adoption of open-source standards to democratize hardware innovation and secure the future of semiconductor design.