CEO Interview with Vamshi Kothur, of Tuple Technologies

It was my pleasure to meet with Vamshi Kothur and the Tuple team at #62DAC for a briefing on their Tropos platform and Omni, a new multi-cloud optimizer. The conferences this year have been AI infused with exciting new technologies but one of the lingering questions is: How will the existing semiconductor design IT infrastructure support AI infused EDA tools and complex AI chip designs? Also, has there ever been a time where time-to-market has been more critical?

Vamshi Kothur is a NJ–based cloud and DevSecOps veteran with over 20 years of experience leading large-scale IT transformations at Fortune 100 financial firms and high-growth technology startups. In 2017, he founded Tuple Technologies to close the infrastructure and security gaps that chip-design startups face when racing to tape-out next-generation ICs, FPGAs, and AI accelerators on tight budgets.

As a frequent speaker at DAC, presenter at Cadence Live, Vamshi mentors early-stage semiconductor founders on building secure, license-aware, elastic cloud infrastructures that protect IP and accelerate innovation.

Tell us about your company

Tuple Technologies is a managed services and cloud automation company focused exclusively on the semiconductor industry. Our flagship platform, Tropos, automates IT infrastructure provisioning and DevSecOps for IC, FPGA, and system design workloads—across cloud, hybrid, or on-prem environments.

Tropos simplifies the most complex and error-prone aspects of semiconductor IT—like infrastructure-as-code, CAD license orchestration, job scheduling, and security hardening—so design teams can focus on tapeout, not IT & toolchain configurations. Whether you’re running RTL simulation on a few hundred CPUs or AI/ML workloads on massive GPU clusters, Tropos ensures performance, security, and cost-efficiency at scale.

At DAC 2025 we launched Omni, a multi-cloud optimizer for deep learning and HPC-based workloads, which brings 70–90% cost savings on GPU-heavy jobs through dynamic orchestration and predictive scaling.

What problems are you solving?

We’re solving the invisible but critical infrastructure challenges that slow down chip innovation. At a high level:

– Data Security & Compliance: We protect design IP at every layer, whether in cloud or on-prem environments.

– Cloud Assets & Sprawl: Our clients save up to 90% on compute-heavy jobs through intelligent resource scheduling, especially GPU-heavy AI/EDA workloads.

– Vendor Lock-In: Tropos platform gives teams freedom from rigid EDA vendor constrained compute environments by supporting heterogeneous toolchains and license models.

– Operational Inefficiencies: We reduce setup time from weeks to hours through automation, and improve turnaround time with real-time telemetry and burst scheduling across clouds.

– Put simply, we let design teams focus on building chips—not scripts, servers, or cloud invoices.

What application areas are you strongest?

We specialize in end-to-end infrastructure automation for semiconductor design pipelines. This includes:

– Provisioning, monitoring, and optimization of compute resources for Frontend, Backend, and Post-Tapeout Flows (PTOF).

– ECAD license management, including real-time analytics to help reduce over-provisioning and maintain compliance.

– DevSecOps services for CI/CD, with embedded security protocols tailored to IP-sensitive workflows.

– Multi-cloud orchestration that automatically routes workloads to the most cost-efficient and performant resources—AWS, GCP, or Azure.

– GPU workload optimization, especially for AI/ML-driven verification and simulation flows.

What keeps your customers at night?

Our customers are semiconductor engineers, CTOs, and startup founders—people who want to innovate but are being bogged down by:

– The complexity of managing hybrid cloud infrastructure with a limited IT, CAD & DevOps team.

– Security and compliance risks, especially around proprietary RTL or AI models.

– CAD license sprawl, where costs balloon and usage data is opaque.

– Unscalable DevOps practices, often relying on hand-crafted scripts that break under load.

– And perhaps most urgently, rising IT costs that outpace budgets.

Tropos and Omni are our answers to these concerns—automation, optimization, and visibility in a single platform.

What does the competitive landscape look like and how do you differentiate?

We see two primary types of competitors:

– Generic IT service providers – skilled in infrastructure, but not tuned for semiconductor workflows, licensing, or toolchains.

– EDA vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, etc.) – strong on tools, but limited when it comes to customizable infrastructure and multicloud strategies.

Tuple is different because :

– We bring deep cloud-native and DevSecOps expertise.

– We are hyper-focused on semiconductor design work flows.

– Tropos is not a generic platform—it’s purpose-built for IC/FPGA/system development flows.

– Our “Pay-as-you-go” model fits lean startups just as well as growing mid-sized design teams.

– We also maintain deep technical partnerships and integrations across the cloud and EDA ecosystem.

What new features/technology are you working on?

We’re constantly pushing the envelope on intelligent infrastructure for silicon R&D. Some of our current focus areas include:

– AI/ML-driven automation for workload profiling and infrastructure scaling—especially for deep learning-based PPA optimization.

– Predictive multi-cloud scheduling to optimize across Spot and Reserved capacity in AWS, GCP, Azure and Neoclouds.

– Advanced security automation—integrating zero-trust networking and runtime compliance checks.

– Sustainability analytics to help customers reduce energy use and carbon footprint from large compute jobs.

We want to make cloud infrastructure programmable, secure, and efficient.

How do customers normally engage with your company?

Our customers typically come from the semiconductor ecosystem—startups, fabless companies, and design services firms. Engagement usually starts in one of three ways:

– Direct use of the Tropos platform to automate and optimize their infrastructure for IC design.

– Adopting Omni to control and reduce cloud spend on Compute & GPU AI/EDA jobs.

– Managed service partnerships—where we take ownership of infrastructure, DevSecOps, and cost governance, letting design teams focus on innovation.

– We offer tiered service models, so whether you’re a lean startup or scaling up to multiple tapeouts per year, there’s a Tuple Technologies solution that fits.

Closing Thoughts?

Tuple Technologies is quietly powering a wave of semiconductor innovation by making infrastructure invisible. With deep roots in IT automation and a sharp focus on chip design, Tuple is enabling design teams to move faster, spend less, and stay secure—without the pain of managing infrastructure manually.

Contact Tuple Technologies

Tuple Case Study:

Start up best practices for Semiconductors

A Practical Guide to Building Scalable, Secure, and Efficient IC Design Workflows for Start-Ups.

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