BW Auto World 40 Under 40 Winner: Mayank Sikaria - Technological Strides In Auto Industry
Mayank Sikaria presides as the President, Co-founder and Head of Technology at Sibros where his role includes overall product, business and customer strategy. Sikaria began his career in the semiconductor industry, before joining EV startup Faraday Future (FF) in 2016 as one of its first System Software Engineers and eventually moved to Manager of Battery Management Systems.
While at Faraday Future, he and his team managed control electronics, firmware, integration, and validation, responsible for delivering one of the world's highest energy density battery systems. In 2019, he left Faraday and moved to Sibros as Co-founder and CTO, where he led the product strategy and roadmap for the company’s award-winning automotive software and data management solution, the Deep Connected Platform (DCP).
Sikaria is a globally recognised functional safety expert, with an International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) 26262 certification. In February of 2022, he helped Sibros become one of the first ASIL-D certified automotive OTA solutions on the market. He has presented his work at international technical conferences, including VDA Automotive SYS Keynote, Embedded World Conference and the Automotive Electronics Conference (AEC) by the Confederation of Indian Industry (India).
In under five years, Sikaria created over 100 new jobs around the world and raised over US$ 85 million in funding. Through his technological leadership, Sibros has created a robust automotive SaaS solution that has attracted more than 18 OEM customers and is on track to connect and manage all software and data for more than 100 million OEMs over the next five years.
