Asai Thambi
Systems Validation Engineer
Folsom, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsai Thambi is a systems validation engineer with over 14 years in Silicon Valley storage engineering and a 25-year career arc in storage controller and driver development spanning Fibre Channel, iSCSI and NVMe/PCIe. Based in Folsom, CA, he has delivered and validated drivers and firmware across enterprise SSDs and RAID controllers at Solidigm, Intel, Micron, IBM and HCL, blending hands-on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and UEFI driver work with onsite program coordination. He’s known for bridging low-level driver design with system-level validation—often leading cross-platform sustainment and porting efforts for complex storage stacks. His background in both device driver creation and emulation tools (SAS HDD emulators, iSCSI targets) gives him a rare perspective on interoperability and legacy system migration. A Master of Computer Applications, he pairs deep protocol expertise with pragmatic test-driven validation to keep storage products reliable in demanding datacenter environments.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at THE AMERICAN COLLEGEMaster of Computer Applications, Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications, Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil
Github Skills (12)
c1710
blockdevice10
kernel10
embedded10
c1110
linux-kernel10
sys10
abstraction-layer9
abstraction9
device-driver9
error-handling9
driver9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bergwolf/linux
Mar 2012 - Feb 2016
Linux kernel source tree -- forked to track pNFS block client commits. Now used to track my patches for Lustre kernel client clean up. well, I'm using it to track my own nfs patches again... And now it is used to track my random staff...
Contributions:28 commits in 3 years 11 months
kernelcommitsnfsptraceperf
carlitros900/karnak_3.18.48
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:9 commits in 9 months
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