# Yen N.

> Principal Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yenn

Yen N. is passionate about end-to-end testing, customer experience advocate and eternally curious.  She is an established technical leader with a formidable 15+ years with background in software development and testing.  Yen is known for:

Details oriented with big picture in mind.
Mentor and lead by examples.
Collaboration.  Team oriented.
Specialties: File System * system integration * End-to-End * Test Development

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Nutanix
Jan 2016 – Present
Tests:
* all aspects of API/SDK
* LifeCycle Management - a framework to prepare and orchestrate software and firmware upgrade
* Various features of core data path products and file system features

### Sr MTS @ Nutanix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | San Jose
Hyperconvergence * Virtualization * end-to-end testing with focus on Core Data Path

Highlights:
* Grand Prized team winner - Cloud backup implementation, New-Hire Engineering Bootcamp Project

### Principal Engineer @ Nimble Storage
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | San Jose, CA
Fortunate to be one of the first few engineers in the team to see the products evolved before IPO and onward.
Hands-on Core Data Path and Cross-Functional Tech Lead.
Storage File System Test * Microsoft Windows testing * Data Integrity testing * iSCSI System Test * Load and Stress test

### Principal Engineer @ Dell
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Sunnyvale
Dedup NAS Storage * Stress test * High Availabilty * Data Integrity * Cache Loss Recovery Testing

### QA Engineer @ NetApp
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Sunnyvale, CA
File System QA Lead * Test Automation * Volume Management * Scalability testing

### Software Engineer @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Cupertino, CA
QA Lead * Fault tolerant File System kernel test development on NonStop Kernel (proprietary Unix/formerly Tandem).
AF_UNIX socket programming in C for fault tolerant file system.

### Software Engineer * HPUX @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2000 – Jan 2007 | Cupertino, CA
Tech Lead - NFS Test Development * HP-UX operating system.

### Software Engineer @ Raster Graphics
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000
Developed software for a family of large format printers.


## Education
### BS in Computer Science - Magna Cum Laude
San Francisco State University


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/yenn
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yenn/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12