Sep 2017 – Feb 2023 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Santa Clara

Feb 2013 – Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Verifying the Status Manager block in the NVMe subsystem of the next generation NVMe SSD controllers.
• Successfully created and debugged multiple agents for custom interfaces
• Created block level testbench including multiple AXI, AHB and custom interface agents and advanced scoreboard
• Created and executed testplan for Status Manager verification
• Worked with designers to clarify NVMe standard implementation details, especially related to Interrupt processing.
• Responsible for bring-up and function verification for DRAM sub-system in four generations of client and enterprise SSD controllers.
• Integrated Verilog and Denali VIP DRAM memory models into multiple testbenches.
• Improved productivity by implementing dynamic run-time selection of different DRAM configurations using UVM classes and interfaces.
• Implemented and debugged initialization sequences for multiple JEDEC DDR devices -- DDR3, DDR4, LPDDR2, LPDDR3, LPDDR4.
• Drove DRAM subsystem bringup, using Cadence, Synopsis and Renesas IPs.
• Formulated and implemented test plans for verifying DDR Controller and PHY features, such as dynamic frequency scaling, multi-port arbitration, low-power data retention modes, etc.
• Working knowledge of AMBA AHB, APB and AXI protocols.

Oct 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Doing pre-Si verification in the execution-scheduler unit. Responsibilities:
• Simulation debug, especially in the machine check architecture (MCA); using VCS.
• Extensive work in functional coverage, using SystemVerilog.
• Maintaining and enhancing fake models, using C++ and SystemVerilog.
• Modifying random stimulus generation constraints and running special regressions for feature-specific testing, using Perl and Python scripts.
• Attended SystemVerilog Testbench and UVM training workshops held by Synopsys.

Feb 2011 – Sep 2011 · 7 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• Developed code to get ‘Git’ commit information and send it to a BizTalk server instance
• Worked on a Visual Studio Add-In UI (WPF) for internal development automation.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos

• Coded a gate-keeper utility between a third-party review tool and internal databases.
• Deployed Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager.
• Performed housekeeping procedures on databases.

Mar 2009 – Jun 2009 · 3 mos

• Completed basic and intermediate training including C, Java, operating systems, RDBMS (Oracle 10g) using PL/SQL.;
• Database Management Project: Wrote PL/SQL scripts to generate and populate a database, and tested for different types of queries.
• Course Management Software: Wrote a simple command-line software package for adding students and courses, evaluating the results of the students, and displaying the same.