# Stan C.

> Software/Firmware Professional

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/stanc

Experienced Senior Software Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Embedded Software and Firmware. Lead/drive features development in core/edge and data center switch applications. Hands-on developer who persistently pushes for quality and performance improving.

Broad range of knowledge, strong work ethic, and the unique ability to accomplish the necessary up-front work in software development to insure extensibility, re-use and quality while committing to and meeting the rapid time to market demands.

For data path, expertise in third party SDK, including: L2/L3 forwarding, thread racing, deadlock and starvation, hardware abstraction layer (HAL), link aggregation group (LAG) hashing, buffer management, TCAM management, class of service (CoS) queue rate limiting, 100G Clause 91/74 Forward Error Correction (FEC), PHY programming, ..etc.

On control plane, specialties in L2 control protocols, configuration database synchronization in cluster environment, performance bottleneck analysis, inter-process communication (IPC) and high availability (HA) framework, task scheduling, heap analysis/overrun detection, feature license schema, GNU toolchains and build/make system integration/tuning, RPM packaging, ..etc.

Comfortable with low level programming: firmware/microcode, board support package (BSP), schematics/BOM check, device drivers, interrupt service routine (ISR), I2C, UART, and strong debugging skill using In-Circuit Emulator (ICE), GDB, and home-brew analyzers.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Fortinet
Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ A10 Networks, Inc
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Santa Clara County, California, United States
As a system/platform software engineer, consistently look for quality improving, feature enhancement, and performance analysis on time/space domains. In addition to integrating a lightweight runtime plug-in tool memleax (https://github.com/WuBingzheng/memleax), major milestones/contributions are listed as follows.
Extended Mellanox mlx4/mlx5 driver packet statistics for Microsoft Azure VXLan support by providing runtime configurable levels of UDP header parsing with minimal/trivial performance impact measured by sockperf/ntttcp.
Help to secure millions dollars of revenue by initiating an FPGA health monitor feature, and a flexible/dynamic port breakout feature.
Bring-up next generation chassis-based platforms, rework/offload I2C peripherals access, program BCM LED firmware, and enhance transceiver info HAL layer implementation to shorten CLI responsiveness to sub-second.

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Gigamon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara, CA
Network Traffic Aggregation/Visibility Software development in both data and control planes, running on CentOS distribution and merchant silicons

### Technical Leader @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
Nexus 3000/3500 switches software development

### Staff Engineer @ Tellabs
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 | Petaluma, CA
FTTP equipment software development.

### Sr. Software Engineer @ InnoPath
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Sunnyvale, CA
Hand-held device management software.

### Engineer Software Staff Senior @ Motorola
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Tewksbury, MA
Media gateway development for PSTN to VoIP aggregation.

### Software Engineer @ Nortel Networks
Jan 1999 – Jan 2003 | Santa Clara, CA
Multi-Services layer 2/3 routing switch software development.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hercules Computer Technology Inc.
Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 | Fremont, CA
Developed/maintained graphic adapter applications, drivers, and BIOS.


## Education
### Ming Chi University of Technology (formerly Ming Chi Institute of Technology)


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/stan-c-2babb9

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Last updated: 2026-04-12