Summary
Dilan Patel is an SSD systems design engineer with eight years of experience specializing in NVMe, PCIe, and datacenter SSD validation. He progressed from hands-on NVMe test development at UNH-IOL—where he wrote Bash/Python test suites, supported vendor conformance, and helped build the OCP-DCSSD test suite—to firmware test and now systems design at Micron. Comfortable across low-level protocol specifications and practical QA, he blends deep technical reading of standards with scripting and lab infrastructure maintenance. He has experience mentoring new hires and leading testing efforts that bridge standards bodies, vendors, and tooling. Based in Longmont, Colorado, Dilan brings a pragmatic systems mindset informed by early leadership in robotics programming and a background in information technology. Notably, his career shows a steady shift from test automation and conformance to designing SSD systems used in hyperscale datacenter contexts.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dover Senior High School
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at University of New Hampshire