# Chris (Silei) Z.

> Software developer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/chrissileiz

* Highly experienced embedded system and high performance software system architect.
* Proven skills of building a large scale data center server and cloud computing system applicances from scratch.
* Extensive experience in server computing system, communication system architecture and storage system. Proficient in interfacing and trouble shooting various hardware interfaces.
* Fluent in various CPU architectures and assembly languages. Be able to bring up and debugging latest (undocumented) X86 CPU and Chipset. Strong expertise in BIOS hacking.
* Proficient in functional programming language such as haskell.
* Strong knowledge of FPGA, verilog RTL and related hardware architecture.

## Work Experience
### WSE Kernel software developer @ Cerebras Systems
Jan 2019 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Write kernel programs for the wafer-scale engine. Also hardware architecture work.

### Deep learning system architect @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Server software architect @ Qualcomm
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California, United States

### Founder @ Stealth stage startup
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
More updates soon.

### Distinguished Engineer @ Violin Memory
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 | MountainView, CA.
Developing and architecting high performance flash memory module in flash array storage system.

### MTS and founding engineer @ SeaMicro Inc.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
System architecture for data center microserver. Computing CPU board development; server BIOS development; interfacing with ASIC; latest Intel chipset and CPU trouble shooting, Linux/Windows/NetBSD hacking. Developing extremely high performance software that can saturate hardware datapath bandwidth.

### Principal engineer, System architect @ Citrix Systems
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
NetScaler, load balancing. Architecting high performance data packet engine on multi-core CPUs.

### Senior software engineer @ Alcatel Lucent
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007
NetBSD operating system and platform software development. Porting NetBSD to powerpc platforms. Trouble shooting undocumented powerpc CPU issues.

### Senior Software engineer @ Riverstone Networks
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006

### sw engineer @ Nortel
Jan 2000 – Jan 2005


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chris-silei-z-0b7a42

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Last updated: 2026-04-11