Senior Director of Hardware Engineering
Cisco, California, United States
Aman Aflaki brings over 19 years of semiconductor development and leadership experience spanning test engineering, manufacturing, and product qualification. He currently serves as Senior Director of Supply Chain for Cisco’s Silicon One business unit. Prior to Cisco, Aman was Director of Manufacturing Engineering at Intel (formerly Altera), where he successfully launched five flagship product lines that achieved market leadership in power and performance. He also championed the integration of machine learning into manufacturing screening, driving scalability and efficiency improvements of more than 30%. Over his career, Aman has led the rollout of multiple generations of FPGAs and switches, architected advanced DFT solutions that consistently reduced customer exposure to defects, and built and led global engineering organizations across test/product development, validation, and software solutions for fabric, SerDes, RF, and memory interfaces. He has been deeply engaged in talent development and global hiring strategies, ensuring both business scalability and technical depth. His expertise spans DFT architecture, signal and power integrity, ATE and test infrastructure, and full lifecycle product engineering. Aman holds multiple patents and has published extensively in leading conferences and journals, including ITC, DesignCon, IEEE, and ECTC.
Charting the Course: Future-Proofing Your Supply Chains
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
1:00pm - 2:00pm MT