• Designed, wrote, and productized GDDR6 Phy training firmware and bitstream generation code for Speedster 7t1500

• Wrote GDDR6 test suite for Phy tuning

• Integrated IO ring (DDR4, PCIe, Ethernet SerDes) initialization and management into firmware

• Created firmware code base for verification testing

Hardware Verification Engineer

• Defining and maintaining hardware verification test cases using the UVM methodology in System Verilog for NVMe flash controller and NVMe switch products

• Debug hardware design and documentation issues with waveform capture tools

• Advise hardware designers on best practices from my experience as a firmware engineer

Customer Application Engineer - NVMe Accelerator

• Defined and maintained internal performance data collection and presentation methods for the NVMe switch product

• Designed and set up testing lab for performance testing and firmware debug

• Supported enterprise OEM and major hyperscale cloud customers in integration efforts

• -Skills and Technologies

• System Verilog

• Python

• Perl

• Shell scripting

• PCIe protocol

• AXI protocol

• Hardware Verification

• Waveform Capture

• Measured performance and power on GPUs and SoCs across a wide range of benchmarks for many departments across the company.

• Analyzed data in order to compare power usage and performance across hardware generation, software revision and competitor products.

• Wrote and maintained testing automation code in a Perl environment in order to increase team productivity and reduce potential for human error from manual testing

• Improved data collection and processing methodologies, streamlining the workflow, and improving turnaround time for requests.

• Defined configuration settings for Unix and Windows based test systems; writing shell and bat setup scripts.

• -Skills:

• Perl

• Bash/Unix shell scripting

• Batch scripting

Recording Subsystems - Recording Electronics

Read/Write Channel Integration Engineering

• Performed post-silicon hardware integration of HDD read/write data channels.

• Designed experiments for feature checkout, feature validation, firmware debug, and failure analysis.

• Used oscilloscopes and arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) for low level debug

• Worked cross-functionally with program teams, firmware developers, vendors, and other integration teams.

• -Skills:

• HDD Read/Write Channels

• High speed signal processing

• Signal Integrity

• Test Automation: TCL, Perl

• Hardware Debug/FA

• Hardware Bring up

• Generating Test Plans/Test Procedures

• A3 Thinking

• Hardware/Firmware bug tracking

• Firmware Writing: C++

• PCB Debug