# Minbo Fan

> Builder at Upscale AI - Ex-Azure, Ex-Nutanix, Ex-Juniper and Ex-Cisco

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

Experienced Senior Reliability Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Storage Area Network (SAN), Storage, Ixia, Data Center, and Routing Protocols. Strong information technology professional with a B.S focused in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer -- AI Network Software @ Upscale AI
Jan 2025 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States
We are developing open standard based networking software and hardware solutions for the next generation of Accelerators and AI clusters.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft | Azure Cloud                                                               | AI | Partner
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, CA
Design and develop next generation high speed, low latency Azure Storage through Microsoft's acquisition of Fungible Inc.
Help Azure's key big data customer's onboarding, profiling, monitoring, and trouble shooting.

### Principal Engineer, Customer Success and Solution @ Fungible Inc., Acquired by Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States
- Demo Fungible’s technology, products and solutions to address customer use cases.
- Prove functionality and performance claims based on customers’ specific requirements.
- Conduct proofs-of-concept (PoC) and ensure they are successful.
- Evaluate competitive solutions and provide measurable comparisons .
- Provide hands-on support for the deployment of Fungible’s solutions and products in customer lab and production environments, troubleshoot root cause of issues and deploy software/hardware upgrades to fix problems.
- Promptly escalate technical issues from customers environment to engineering team, and be responsible for post-sales support .

### Sr. Systems Reliability Engineer @ Nutanix
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | San Jose
• Highly technical debugging and troubleshooting of customer issues encountered in the field.
• Working with technology partners (ie. VMware, Microsoft, Veeam etc. ) to resolve issues and push for improvements in the Nutanix ecosystem.
• Develop and contribute to internal and external knowledge bases.
• Define and drive changes to our product with the development engineering team, given feedback from customers and field implementations.

### Sr.  MTS,  Testing @ Nutanix
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Jose
Core Data Path QA group.  Testing backend software of  Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform,  an new converged, high scalable ,distributed cluster platform for Data Center

### Member of Technical Staff @ Riverbed Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Whitewater QA team, Cloud Storage Gateway

### Technical Leader @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
SAVBU , testing Cisco Nexus 5K Data Center Switch. Focus on system level and Automation test .

### Staff Engineer @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Sunnyvale
Next Generation Data Center Switch testing,. FIP Snooping, FIP and FCoE to FC Gateway. Feature test, automation, Scaling and performance test, end to end FCoE system test. Emulex/QLogic CNA , Brocade 8k and Cisco Nexus 5k.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2002 – Jan 2009

### Software Engineer @ Andiamo Systems
Jan 2002 – Jan 2004
Andiamo is acquired by Cisco.

### Software QA Engineer @ Nortel
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002


## Education
### B.S in Electronic Engineering
Tsinghua University

### M.S in Computer Engineering
University of Southern California


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10