Fan Ni
Performance Engineer at VMware
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFan Ni is a performance engineer with nine years of experience specializing in storage systems, file systems, and computer architecture, currently working on VCF performance at VMware in the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a PhD with published work in ICS and SYSTOR, and his research has driven real-world optimizations in data deduplication, SSD interfaces/FTL design, and KV cache/store designs for NVM. Fan has bridged academia and industry at NetApp, Samsung, and VMware, building prototypes that influenced product features and accelerating dedupe chunking using Intel AVX for a 3x speedup. He has deep kernel- and hypervisor-level experience (Linux kernel, QEMU, ndctl) and contributes to CXL software ecosystem work at Samsung. Known for combining rigorous research with practical engineering, he mentors interns and serves as a reviewer/PC member for top conferences. An understated strength is his track record of turning storage research prototypes into deployable product improvements across large-scale enterprise systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS computer science and technology, BS computer science and technology at buaaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Storage systems file systems and computer architecture, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Storage systems file systems and computer architecture at The University of Texas at ArlingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD SSD-based storage Systems KV store/Cache crash-consistency, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD SSD-based storage Systems KV store/Cache crash-consistency at Wayne State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD computer organizations, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD computer organizations at Beihang University
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nifannn/HackerRank
Mar 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
nifannn/nifannn.github.io
Jul 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:241 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
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