# Bart Van Assche

> Staff Software Engineer at Google

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bartvanassche

Contributor to the JEDEC UFS and UFSHCI standards, the Pixel storage stack and the Linux kernel.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Android block storage.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Google Cloud block storage.

### Technologist @ WD, a Western Digital Company
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Improve the support of Western Digital products in the Linux kernel and advance the Linux kernel storage subsystems.

### Senior Staff Software Developer @ SanDisk
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design, implementation and optimization of the data path and H.A. aspects of the ION software. More information about the ION project can be found on the following web pages:
* ION Data Accelerator (http://www.storagereview.com/fusionio_ion_data_accelerator_review).
* HP Achieves #1 VMware VMmark with SanDisk (https://blog.westerndigital.com/flash-optimizing-virtual-workloads-hp-vmware-vmmark-benchmark/).

### Senior Software Developer @ Fusion-io
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Design, implementation and optimization of the data path and H.A. aspects of the ION software. More information about the ION project can be found on the following web pages:
* ION Data Accelerator (http://www.storagereview.com/fusionio_ion_data_accelerator_review).
* HP Achieves #1 VMware VMmark with SanDisk (https://blog.westerndigital.com/flash-optimizing-virtual-workloads-hp-vmware-vmmark-benchmark/).

### Freelance Software Developer @ bvba Bart Van Assche
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012

### Software Architect @ Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007

### Software Development Engineer @ Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco Company
Jan 2000 – Jan 2006
Improve the Phoenix, Apollo Mk II, Copernicus, Rosa EM and DCM products. The first four devices are intended for monitoring headend equipment and outside plant equipment. The last device is a digital video transport stream multiplexer, splicer and transrater. I also invented and developed the IPConfigTool for first-time configuration of IP settings of embedded devices. During the period 2000 to 2004 I was editor for the ANSI / SCTE 83-3 standard.


## Education
### Ph.D. in Computer Sciences
Ghent University

### Master in Computer Sciences
Ghent University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bartvanassche2

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Last updated: 2026-04-12