Experience

Astera Labs
• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Senior Principal Firmware Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Present


Microchip Technology Inc.

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Staff Engineer-Firmware

  • Mar 2019 - Aug 2022

  24G SAS Expander Worked on design and development of MIPS based shared module supporting multiple products, starting from pre-Silicon emulation platform to post-Silicon device bring-up. Worked closely with hardware team for implementations of various feature sets and diagnostics capabilities. Involved in design reviews, code reviews and mentoring in other areas of SDK development. Unified SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) with Dual SAS Expander Worked on collecting and defining requirements, high/low-level design, implementation, and testing of a single, unified SES solution utilizing a primary and secondary SAS Expander, with a single SES target visible to Host. Show less



PMC-Sierra

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Tech Lead - Firmware Development

  • Oct 2013 - Mar 2019

  PCIe 3.1 Switch A unified storage switch that supports connection of multiple host CPU entities to multiple storage devices over PCI Express transport. Worked on implementation of PCIe Config Space in firmware, implementation of Baseline Error detection and logging, implementation of PCIe AER capability. Worked on implementation of PCIe Fundamental Reset, Hot Reset, USP Secondary Bus Reset. Worked on PCIe Transaction Daemon, used for handling of ingress/egress TLPs, calling appropriate handler based on TLP Type, take appropriate actions for errors indicated in TLP Header, such as Poison TLP, ECRC error, and other error handling like UR for routing errors, etc. PQI-based Messaging Unit Worked on implementation of T10 SCSI PQI Queuing model, handling of IUs(SOP Information Units), Fast-path performance optimization, implementation of PQI Device Reset, bring-up on Emulation (FPGA) platform, and error handling. Show less



iGATE

• Morocco
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • May 2010 - Sep 2013

  Worked with leading Storage-domain companies on projects such as SAS ASIC Validation, SAS Switch Firmware for management and configuration of SAS/SATA devices in topology, developing management application for PCIe SSD cards and HBAs, with features like volume management, SSD Controller features management. Worked extensively with ATA and SCSI standards. Worked with leading Storage-domain companies on projects such as SAS ASIC Validation, SAS Switch Firmware for management and configuration of SAS/SATA devices in topology, developing management application for PCIe SSD cards and HBAs, with features like volume management, SSD Controller features management. Worked extensively with ATA and SCSI standards.



Mettler-Toledo

• China

• Software Engineer - Product Development

  • Oct 2005 - Apr 2010

  Worked on Weighing (Metrology) domain projects such as ARM7-based Retail Printer scale, handling development and customization of high-end scales for Retail sector, hardware and firmware development for Auxiliary display, design of Digital I/O card, interaction with Sales/Support for troubleshooting customer issues, training team members on development/customization. Worked on Weighing (Metrology) domain projects such as ARM7-based Retail Printer scale, handling development and customization of high-end scales for Retail sector, hardware and firmware development for Auxiliary display, design of Digital I/O card, interaction with Sales/Support for troubleshooting customer issues, training team members on development/customization.