Bio

a) Managing upwards of $100 million Tier-1 Data center, High Performance Computing and Hyper scale customer accounts supporting CXL product line, RAID controllers, SAS Expanders, PCIe Switches. b) Member of Security Council for Data Center Solution products: contributing towards security feature roadmap, drafting plans for Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT), participating in industry consortiums, formulating security practices based on standards, security training content for internal and external customers utilizing expertise in Microsoft DICE/RiOT implementation. c) Managing a team Firmware Application Engineers supporting Tier-1 customers and leading programs for various Gen 4 SAS (24Gbps) and Gen 3/4 PCIe (32Gbps) products. Experienced in: - Security features and architectures such as – Root Of Trust, Secure Boot, Microsoft DICE/RiOT, CVSS, SDL - Proficiency in high speed serial interfaces- CXL 2.0, PCI Express Gen 3/4/5 (32Gbps), SATA (6 Gbps), SAS(6 Gbps,12 Gbps,24Gbps) - High speed board design and firmware development with complex mixed signal devices operating at multi GHz range. -FPGA prototyping for silicon validation and test platform development on Xilinx and Altera platforms. -Good debugging skills (Hardware and firmware )using high speed scopes, AWGN, bus/protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, SignalTap / ChipScope analyzers. -Signal Integrity analysis - pre/post layout simulation using Hyperlynx to determine best PCB stack-up and other layout rules to avoid reflections, EMI & cross talk issues. -Authored 6 technical papers published in refereed journals and several internal and external application notes.