Summary
Jimmy Hoo is a Firmware Test Engineer Lead with over a decade of experience validating and automating storage protocols including PCIe NVMe, SAS, SATA, SCSI and FC across Windows and Linux environments. He has progressed through senior engineering and principal FWQA roles at HGST/Western Digital and now leads firmware test efforts at Micron, developing C++, C#, Perl and Python tools and comprehensive test suites. Comfortable across OS platforms and languages, he pairs deep protocol knowledge with practical test automation and multi-factor authentication experience to drive product reliability. Trilingual in English, Spanish and Mandarin (conversant in Burmese and Portuguese), he brings uncommon global communication skills to cross-functional engineering teams. He also has a long history of web and systems work—from JPL web apps to .NET/Flex campus energy projects—reflecting a broad, systems-oriented engineering background that informs his firmware testing strategy.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Computer Technology, Certificate, Computer Technology at Universidad Tecnologica Intercontinental
Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Bachelors of Science, Computer Science at California State University
Spanish, Chinese