# Ken Chan

> Principal Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks

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

•	30-year experience in software and hardware development for enterprise class networking and storage products, as well as consumer products.
•	Well-rounded software development experience in device drivers, embedded applications and firmware.
•	Developed platform software for ASIC, FPGA, system-on-chip and multi-processor systems.
•	Working knowledge in artificial intelligence: publications on neural network classifiers; product development with computer vision and robotics.
•	Led team through complete product cycle. Worked well across teams, internal or external to the organizations.
•	Excelled in both start-up and international established companies.
•	Track record to deliver high quality code and attend to details.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Technical Director, Platform Software @ Vexata
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, CA
- Led low level platform software in requirement, design and development for ultra-high performance storage arrays. Covered hardware design review, low level drivers, hardware / software interface, system bring-up, diagnostics, platform management software, and others.
- Ported SDK for Cavium Octeon SoC to custom platforms.
- Developed driver and application for embedded LCD.
- Co-invented UART bus switching for data blade debugging in chassis environment.

### Software Technical Leader, Data Center Ethernet Group @ Brocade Communications
Jan 2003 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
- Led ASIC driver team going through complete life cycle: ASIC design review, software design and development, unit test with co-verification, ASIC bring-up, system integration and customer support.
- Delivered kernel drivers for switching ASICs for Data Center Ethernet, Fibre Channel and Storage Application Platform.
- Wrote hardware extraction layer for 12-processor Ethernet switching ASIC.
- Developed tools to collect and decode ASIC full memory map for offline debugging.

### Staff Software Engineer, Platform Group @ Rhapsody Networks
Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 | Fremont, CA
- Developed hardware extraction layer for 3-processor system-on-a-chip ASIC for storage networking application.
- Validated ASIC functionality with co-verification tools.
- Ported Board Support Package for ARM processor.

### Senior Software Engineer, Storage and Imaging Interconnectivity Group @ Philips Semiconductors
Jan 1996 – Jan 2001 | Sunnyvale, CA
- Developed WDM device driver for USB cameras.
- Wrote test suite for logic and silicon validation for a proprietary processor.
- Developed firmware for a 1394 link-layer chip for storage applications.
- Designed firmware architecture for imaging application.
- Modified 8x CD-ROM firmware to achieve 32x performance.

### Senior Systems Engineer @ Electro-Optical Information System
Jan 1991 – Jan 1996 | Santa Monica, CA
- Built custom non-contact precision measurement systems for reverse engineering and industrial inspection using machine vision and robotics technology. It involves CCD camera and structural lighting active Moiré Interferometry).
- Designed and implemented software compensation algorithm based on laser measurements to enhance motion system accuracy.
- Developed airfoil analysis packages for jet engine blades.
- Developed products for customers including Oak Ridge National Lab, Chem-Tronics, US Air Force and Wyman-Gordon.

### Teaching and Research Assistant, Robotics and Vision Lab @ University of Maine
Jan 1988 – Jan 1990 | Orono, ME
- Developed statistical model to evaluate performance of artificial neural network classifiers.
- Designed new learning algorithm.

### Electronics Engineer @ Customer electronics companies
Jan 1985 – Jan 1988 | Hong Kong
- Designed product prototypes for cordless phones, feature phones, passive infrared detectors, infrared and ultrasonic transceivers.


## Education
### MS in Electrical Engineering
University of Maine

### BS in Electronics
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ken-chan-02a6343

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Last updated: 2026-04-12