# Kevin Edmonds > Principal Software Engineer, KIOXIA Corporation Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinedmonds Career-long development in systems engineering and systems integration. Wide breadth of combined academic and practical knowledge spanning hardware, software, firmware, test, and applications engineering. Aptitude for roles that require central ownership across a broad range of subject matter. Expert at system-level validation, from test definition down to root-cause failure analysis. Talent for disseminating complicated technical information to a format suitable for both technical and non-technical audiences ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ KIOXIA America, Inc. Jan 2019 – Present | United States ### Staff Engineer @ Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA) Jan 2016 – Present | San Jose, California Responsible for research and development of cloud-like container-based software solutions on Toshiba's proprietary Flashmatrix appliance - Responsible for bare metal installation of Kubernetes onto proprietary hardware, including platform-specific k8s development such as custom dynamic storage provisioning, etc. - Responsible for determining viability and scale-out characteristics of appliance for machine learning applications, including parallel convolutional neural network training via distributed Tensorflow - Responsible for scoping, design and implementation of platform-tailored scale out performance and functional test infrastructure ### Staff Systems Engineer @ OCZ Storage Solutions - A Toshiba Group Company Jan 2014 – Present ### Staff Engineer - Product Design @ WD, a Western Digital company Jan 2013 – Present • Work directly with signal integrity team on front-end electrical and protocol validation of novel PCIe-based NVMe SSD. Company field representative for industry electrical and protocol compliance events, as well as interoperability workshops with sibling industry-leading engineering companies • Work in close collaboration with test engineering team to implement advanced PCIe test capabilities requiring joint hardware/software components, and integrate resulting implementation into overall test engineering infrastructure • Technical resource in collaboration with project architecture team. Solicit requirements from project technologists and independently build integrated .NET-based software analytic tools to collect foundational data for architectural decision making on new PCIe NVMe SSD • Primary internal technical interface during enterprise-level customer qualification of PCIe NVMe SSD. Work directly with internal applications and product team to understand customer failures, investigate to root cause, and provide detailed technical reports on findings and corrective actions • Validation role in white-box product testing for new PCIe NVMe SSD; work with hardware/firmware design teams to understand SoC/FW architecture, and utilize knowledge to write application-specific firmware for validation of hardware blocks ### Senior Engineer - Product Design @ WD, a Western Digital company Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 Core technical resource in systems integration, systems validation and test engineering • Major involvement in firmware validation testing, focusing on systems- and firmware-centric failure analysis • Ownership within group over signal integrity testing, including Gen1/2 SATA, IDE, NAND flash, and DRAM interfaces • Close work with hardware and firmware engineering teams with a focus on systems integration • Designer and implementer of engineering-level technical solutions utilizing a range of industry standard tools and languages including .NET (Visual C++/C#), C/C++, MATLAB, MPLAB IDE (for PIC microcontrollers), Xilinx ISE/ Modelsim (for Verilog FPGA), and others • Software/hardware development on research-oriented tools and equipment for applications such as NAND characterization, drive power loss failover schemes, and others • Microcontroller development for automation and control of electrical test equipment Back-end systems and applications engineering support for embedded and industrial customers • On-site engineering support for specific major embedded customers • Primary interface for protocol-specific (SATA, IDE, CF) topics • Production FA engineering to diagnose and report on potential design problems • Frequent use of test equipment including protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and others ### Engineer - Product Design @ WD, a Western Digital company Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Engineering UCLA ### BS in Computer Science and Engineering UC Irvine ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevin-edmonds-22041385 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinedmonds JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinedmonds/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13