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• Member of the Platform Service FW team, playing a key role in developing features relating to the HAL, drivers, and bootloaders, ensuring seamless compatibility and optimal performance across multiple platforms.• Conducted scrum master tasks by running daily stand-up meetings, delegating tasks, facilitating spring planning, and collecting sprint retrospectives.• Participated in bring-ups of various ASIC platforms by executing a test plan that involved verifying the PMIC (Power… Show more • Member of the Platform Service FW team, playing a key role in developing features relating to the HAL, drivers, and bootloaders, ensuring seamless compatibility and optimal performance across multiple platforms.• Conducted scrum master tasks by running daily stand-up meetings, delegating tasks, facilitating spring planning, and collecting sprint retrospectives.• Participated in bring-ups of various ASIC platforms by executing a test plan that involved verifying the PMIC (Power Management Integrated Circuit) and running unit tests for all hardware blocks.• Collaborated closely across multiple geographies with other firmware teams, validation teams, manufacturing teams and third-party vendors.• Participated in comprehensive code reviews across diverse domains of expertise, contributing to the to maintenance of high code quality standards.• Integrated key peripheral devices, leveraging expertise in I2C/I3C, SPI, and UART protocols. • Demonstrated proficiency in interpreting and applying diverse specifications, including in-depth knowledge of NVMe, PMIC, and ASIC specifications. • Content expert for PMIC HAL and driver FW, guiding and mentoring fellow engineers in enterprise SSD power supply control and monitoring. • Providing expertise in fault prevention/protection, sequencing, telemetry, and power-loss recovery. • Conducting embedded development in C, C++, and ARM assembly for enterprise SSD controller ASICs. • Developing and implementing unit tests for both on-target (hardware) and off-target (simulator) testing. • Debugging multi-core ARM systems in real time using ARM Development Studio environment and D-Stream probe. Show less

• Content expert for PMIC HAL and driver FW, guiding and mentoring fellow engineers in enterprise SSD power supply control and monitoring. • Providing expertise in fault prevention/protection, sequencing, telemetry, and power-loss recovery. • Conducting embedded development in C, C++, and ARM assembly for enterprise SSD controller ASICs. • Developing and implementing unit tests for both on-target (hardware) and off-target (simulator) testing. • Debugging multi-core… Show more • Content expert for PMIC HAL and driver FW, guiding and mentoring fellow engineers in enterprise SSD power supply control and monitoring. • Providing expertise in fault prevention/protection, sequencing, telemetry, and power-loss recovery. • Conducting embedded development in C, C++, and ARM assembly for enterprise SSD controller ASICs. • Developing and implementing unit tests for both on-target (hardware) and off-target (simulator) testing. • Debugging multi-core ARM systems in real time using ARM Development Studio environment and D-Stream probe. Show less

• Product owner of SSD PMIC systems and architecture and development, leader of multiple international teams.• Developed multiple PMIC internal architecture specifications as part of the PMIC team.• Solicited bids from external vendors, created vendor scorecards, and selected vendors for business awards.• Oversaw PMIC development, collaborating with external vendors to design and test silicon according to Intel specifications.• Scheduled and led weekly meetings and design… Show more • Product owner of SSD PMIC systems and architecture and development, leader of multiple international teams.• Developed multiple PMIC internal architecture specifications as part of the PMIC team.• Solicited bids from external vendors, created vendor scorecards, and selected vendors for business awards.• Oversaw PMIC development, collaborating with external vendors to design and test silicon according to Intel specifications.• Scheduled and led weekly meetings and design reviews to validate PMIC effectively prior to system integration, executed test scripts and provided vendors with bug reports.• Supported system integration of PMIC, provided debug support, coordinated with product development team, created build plans, and provided schedule and demand to external vendors.• Led multidisciplinary task-force teams focused on debugging efforts prior to and in production.• Root-caused issues, provided solutions or workarounds, and unblocked manufacturing and customer integration.• Solely owned PMIC RTL verification, responsible for developing and maintaining System Verilog testbenches and executing regression tests.• Collaborated with domestic and international external vendors' digital design teams. • Chaired weekly meetings reviewing RTL design and developing test plans.• Conducted face-to-face meetings for major milestones.• Verified new revisions of PMIC RTL, provided analysis, bug reports, and assisted in fixing RTL issues.• Developed and maintained comprehensive System Verilog testbenches for verifying each vendor's digital model release and revisions.• Modeled and simulated various digital and analog interfaces, including i2c interface, power state bus, and power-loss recovery using state-machines.• Created sample PMIC state-machine RTL to mimic and verify expected behavior of the vendor's PMIC model.• Designed test vectors following test plans, running over 1000 regression tests for thorough test coverage to verify PMIC vendor's digital models. Show less