Summary
Jeff Hou is a Principal Test Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience in networking and storage testing, currently focused on Converged Network Adapters, FCoE, DCBX, and converged traffic across ESX, Windows, and Linux platforms. He has led certification and interoperability efforts for hardware and virtualization stacks, including Windows Logo and VMware ESX testing for iSCSI and NAS products. His background spans SCSI/RAID, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS appliances, and advanced storage features such as multipathing, clustering, backup and replication, giving him deep system-level insight. Based in Sunnyvale, he combines firmware and platform-level test design with practical lab validation on blade and rack servers from major OEMs. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous, standards-driven testing that bridges firmware, drivers, and enterprise storage ecosystems. An uncommon strength is his long track record of shepherding products through multiple certification regimes, ensuring field-ready interoperability in complex environments.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stony Brook University