Navanee's expertise is on both sides of the wall that separate the hardware and software worlds. The Xilinx Embedded Manager has a background in both Computer Architecture and FPGAs, as well as Embedded and EDA tools development. Navanee was a core member of the team that developed MicroBlaze soft processor, an EDN Magazine Hot 100 Product, and the Xilinx Platform Studio toolsuite, which is a recipient of the International Engineering Council's Design Vision award. Most recently, he was the Engineering Manager for Embedded Platform Debug solutions for hardware-software co-debugging.

Navanee has an M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University, Utah and a B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from Anna University, India.

—Navanee, Xilinx