About Me

A Principal software engineer/Project lead with over 20 years of experience in project Lead, systems design, development, configuration and triage of real time systems software. Software Design: Linux/Solaris Kernel module. 3PAR (HPE) cluster system ...real time systems software. Software Design: Linux/Solaris Kernel module. 3PAR (HPE) cluster system FC Target Mode storage array. Cisco style configuration backup and restore interface. PCIe MRIOV Virtualization module of Qlogic Fibre Channel and LSI MegaRaid PCIe Adapters. Dynamic load/unload and online SAN configuration update of Fibre Channel stack (patented). Dynamic Multi-Path of Fibre Channel storage stack. High performance (700K IOPS) NVMe SSD controller Linux kernel module. Ethernet network switch firmware. System Implementation: Solaris/System-V storage stacks data integrity and performance monitoring. FC storage array target mode kernel module. L2 layer Network switch. Network attached storage (NAS) Disk Management embedded firmware (IP-UDP) protocol. Areas of Technical Expertise: Operating systems: Storage Array Cluster, AIX, Solaris, UNIX, Linux, NetBSD, VMware, XEN, Windows and VxWorks. Communication Protocols: TCPIP, HDLC, SDLC, Y1731 and Y1564. Software: Multi-Threaded kernel module, RAID, Communications Sub-systems, file systems, Fault Tolerant, Fibre Channel storage, Target device module, tape proxy, Cryptography, u-boot and digital voice mail. System Drivers: Fibre Channel, Ethernet, RAID, SCSI, FCP, SAS, SATA, SSD, SDIO, SPI, I2C and RS422/RS232. System hardware: Sun Sparc, Intel 80686, and 8051, Motorola 68HC11, 68020, ARM Vortex 9, and PCIe. Languages: Micro Assembly, C/C++, Java, Bash and Python.