# Deepak Aatresh

> Deepak Aatresh is an electrical and computer engineer, inventor, and the co-founder and CEO of Aditazz. After designing microprocessors at Intel and leading engineering teams in communications hardware, he carried the rule-based, simulation-heavy methods of chip design into architecture and construction, building software that turns a building's functional requirements into computable design rules.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Aditazz Inc.
- **Organizations:** Aditazz Inc., Artiman Ventures, Alcatel-Lucent, Riverstone Networks, Cabletron Systems, Intel Corporation
- **From:** Bangalore, India
- **Education:** M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Arizona State University, B.E., Electrical Engineering, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore Military School
- **Known for:** Co-founded Aditazz and developed a cross-disciplinary approach to computational building design based on semiconductor workflows., Helped Aditazz become one of two winners of Kaiser Permanente's Small Hospital, Big Idea competition from a field reported at about 300 applicants., Named as an inventor on U.S. Patent 6,067,301 for forwarding packets from contending queues to an output.

## Career timeline

- **1989-1997** — Worked as a computer architect and designer at Intel, contributing to multiple generations of microprocessors.
- **1997-2000** — Worked in communications hardware; a packet-forwarding invention filed in 1998 was granted U.S. Patent 6,067,301 in 2000.
- **2000-2006** — Served as Senior Director of Hardware Engineering at Riverstone Networks.
- **2006-2008** — Served as Director of Engineering at Alcatel-Lucent.
- **2008-2011** — Joined Artiman Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence and began researching construction and energy use.
- **2009** — Connected with architect Zigmund Rubel while exploring the transfer of semiconductor design methods to buildings.
- **2010** — Co-founded Aditazz with Rubel, backed initially by Artiman Ventures.
- **2012** — Aditazz was one of two winners in Kaiser Permanente's Small Hospital, Big Idea design competition.
- **2014-present** — Leads Aditazz as co-founder and CEO; a 2025 California registry extract continued to list him as CEO.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Aditazz and developed a cross-disciplinary approach to computational building design based on semiconductor workflows.
- Helped Aditazz become one of two winners of Kaiser Permanente's Small Hospital, Big Idea competition from a field reported at about 300 applicants.
- Named as an inventor on U.S. Patent 6,067,301 for forwarding packets from contending queues to an output.
- Named on multiple building-computation patents and applications, including U.S. Patent 10,452,790 on evaluating energy use across building massing configurations.
- Presented on computational design and innovation at industry and engineering events, including the 2014 AEC Technology Symposium and the 2019 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovation Summit.

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — A California business-registry extract listed Aditazz as active and continued to identify Aatresh as chief executive officer, chief financial officer, secretary, and registered agent.
- **2021-04** — Participated as Aditazz co-founder, CEO, and director in McKinsey's virtual Global Infrastructure Initiative Summit on the project of the future.
- **2019-09** — Attended the inaugural U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Innovation Summit and spoke publicly about opportunities for collaboration between Silicon Valley companies and the Corps.

## Links

- Website: https://aditazz.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepakaatresh

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