Rock Tsai

CEO

Hsinchu City, Taiwan16 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

15 years in firmware/software development.
Led teams for major storage solutions.
Proven collaboration with top tech companies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Storage Solutions Architect with extensive firmware development experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical Project ManagementLeadershipSolution ArchitectureEmbedded SystemsFirmwareProject ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipSoftware Design

Other Skills

CommunicationConflict ResolutionDevice DriversEmbedded CEmbedded Software ProgrammingNVM Express (NVMe)Performance TuningPeripheralsProblem SolvingRAIDRelease ManagementSoftware Project ManagementStorage SolutionsTeam Management

About

 Accumulated 15 years of extensive experience in firmware/software development in the Storage Industry, contributing to renowned companies such as Marvell, NetApp, and Promise Technologies. o Demonstrated adeptness in people management, with 5 years of experience leading firmware teams. o Exhibited proficiency across a decade in firmware development.  Proficient in firmware development throughout the product life cycle.  Skilled in facilitating cross-team collaboration to lead and develop NPI products.  Seasoned in firmware project management across multiple products.  Proven track record of effective collaboration with key clients such as Microsoft, Dell, NetApp.  Well-versed in pertinent knowledge and protocols within the storage industry, includes NVMe, MVMe-MI, MCTP(over SMBUS/VDM), PLDM, SMBUS, PCIe.

Experience

Google

Software Engineering Manager

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · New Taipei City, Taiwan

Marvell technology

4 roles

Senior Staff Manager

May 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo

．Spearheaded the Data Center Storage Solutions (DCSS) team as Team Lead, overseeing 22
firmware engineers.
．Manage and deliver various full turnkey solutions of accelerator products to enterprise/hyperscale
customers.
．．Products: Secure Accelerator, 88NR2241(NevoX) and 88SE9230(MagniPlus).
．．Customers: Microsoft, Dell, HPE, NetApp, SMC, Lenovo, Cisco..
．Played a pivotal role in architecting, planning, and designing review for NPI PCIe/NVMe projects
and features.
．Led teams through the firmware development process from Proof of Concept (PoC) to FPGA bring-up, production, and maintenance stages of the product life cycle.
．Coordinated feature development, troubleshooting of critical issues, and cross-functional
collaboration between firmware and hardware teams.
．Ensured customer success.
．．Establishing the executable & smooth working relationship.
．．Propose design framework to customers.
．．Engage with critical issue and solutions with team.

CommunicationSolution ArchitectureTechnical Project ManagementTeam ManagementLeadership

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2020 – May 2023 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Software Engineering Manager

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

．Firmware development on 88NR2241(NevoX) and 88SE9230(MagniPlus).
．．Protocol implementation (NVMe/MCTP_OVER_SMBus/MVMe-MI).
．．Hardware engine control, communication.
．．Peripherals (I2C/UART/SPI/GPIOs).
．Represent firmware contact window for cross team cooperation between firmware/hardware
team/customers for development, trouble shooting, and feature deployment.

NVM Express (NVMe)PeripheralsEmbedded CEmbedded SystemsFirmware

Netapp

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2013 – Apr 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Taiwan

．Release Manager, orchestrated the official release of diagnostic software to inter-company and
ODM partners.
．Product owner, spearheaded diagnostic software development as the product owner for the 12G
SAS3.0 Expander.
．．Lead ODM firmware team.
．．Project management.
．．Team player of cross-functional team.
．Earned department award of New Hiring, work with US counterparts and deploy infrastructure for hardware validation at ODM that results significant improvement of verifications.

Cross-functional Team LeadershipTechnical Project ManagementEmbedded SystemsRelease ManagementProject Management

Promise technology

Software Engineer

Jan 2008 – Feb 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Taiwan

．Device driver development for serial products, i.e., HBA, Controller, and RAID solutions.
．Performance tuning, design models and crafting algorithms to enhance efficiencies according to
customer requirements and product specifications.
。Accomplished a collaboration with NEC Inc., act as a team leader and responsible for
development/verification.

RAIDDevice DriversPerformance TuningSoftware DesignFirmware