Vaibbhav Taraate is an entrepreneur and mentor at "1 Rupee S T". He holds B.E. (Electronics) degree from Shivaji University, Kolhapur (1995) and received a Gold Medal for standing first in all engineering branches. He completed his M.Tech. (Aerospace Control and Guidance) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India, in 1999. He has over 18 years of experience in semi-custom ASIC and FPGA design, primarily using HDL languages such as Verilog, VHDL and SystemVerilog.

He has worked with multinational corporations as a consultant, senior design engineer, and technical manager. His areas of expertise include RTL design using VHDL, RTL design using Verilog, complex FPGA-based design, low power design, synthesis and optimization, static timing analysis, system design using microprocessors, high-speed VLSI designs, and architecture design of complex SOCs.