Summary
Daniel Chung is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with over two decades of experience designing and shipping industry-first SAN and Ethernet Fabric features. He has led architecture and implementation of pioneering products such as the first L3 Fibre Channel Router (now a T11 standard), FCoE-to-FC bridging, and fabric-based storage virtualization across multiple ASIC generations. A hands-on leader and rapid ramp-up specialist, he combines deep C++ and systems expertise with Go and Python tooling to bridge platform, CLI (YANG/ConfD), and automation (Ansible) surfaces. Daniel excels at porting complex storage and monitoring suites to new network OS platforms and driving SMP-safe migration and toolchain modernizations. He’s known for inventing practical management models—like device importing and virtual topology creation—that scale across products and customers. Beyond core engineering, he improves team effectiveness remotely, helping distributed teams deliver smooth qualifications with enterprise partners such as IBM.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles