Devdatta Kulkarni

Chief Technology Officer at Stealth Startup

Portland, Oregon, United States

About Devdatta Kulkarni

Devdatta Kulkarni is Chief Technology Officer at Stealth Startup. Location: Portland, Oregon, United States.

• 15+ years of strong thermal, fluid flow and cooling research and product development experience - Lead thermal architect for CPU, GPU and accelerators: setting package thermal specifications, boundary conditions and platform boundary conditions - Liquid cooling expert, development of advanced air and liquid cooling solutions to meet performance CAGR of processors and Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) certified - vendor and customer enabling - Develop concepts into actual solutions through high fidelity analysis, design, prototyping and testing; expertise in thermal model development using CFD analysis such as Ansys Fluent. - Hands on experience for thermal testing of electrical systems (system level cooling), power cube modules for inverters and transformers (sub system level cooling) as well as component level cooling such as IGBTs, diodes and microprocessors etc. - Strong innovative ability; successful in receiving couple of SBIR research grants for Phase I ($150 K) & Phase II ($1M) grants from US government (DOE) as PI and Co-PI specifically for thermal management of high power electronics. - Thermal strategy, team technical lead, customer interactions, business development and excellent team member with an ability to work with people across multiple geo locations; proven track record of successful delivery of new technologies to budget, schedule and quality measure. Specialties: CPU, GPU & accelerator cooling, air and liquid cooling, sustainability, CFD, Thermal & Fluid flow Analysis, server cooling, data center cooling, Liquid cooling components and system supplier enabling, OxM enabling and customer adoption

Skills

  • server cooling
  • single and two phase cooling
  • Thermal architect

Additional experience

  • Senior Principal Engineer - Thermal Architect

    Intel Corporation

    February 2024 – July 2025

Education

  • PhD, University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • M.S., University of Alaska Fairbanks