John Molina
SSD Firmware Engineering at HGST, a Western Digital company
California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Molina is an experienced embedded firmware engineer specializing in SSD and storage device development, with a 20+ year track record across industry leaders including HGST/Western Digital, Quantum, Seagate, and others. He combines deep low-level skills in C/C++, ARM assembly, real-time OSes, and device drivers with hands-on hardware bring-up using FPGA prototyping, JTAG, scopes, and protocol analyzers. Comfortable both as a self-directed individual contributor and as a cross-functional collaborator, he has delivered across the full product lifecycle from requirements and architecture to verification, performance optimization, and sustaining support. His expertise covers storage and networking protocols (SCSI/SAS/SATA, Fibre Channel, TCP/IP) and practical lab tooling, enabling rapid root-cause analysis of complex system failures. Holding a BS in Electronic Engineering and an MS in Computer Science, he is known for producing robust design solutions and resolving long-standing technical challenges in high-reliability storage products. Based in California, he brings rare combined fluency in firmware, hardware, and system-level diagnostics that speeds time-to-resolution in production environments.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at California State University-Fullerton
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Github Skills (36)
pytorch9
autodiff9
python9
machine-learning9
composable9
gpu9
automatic-differentiation9
jit9
jax8
tpu8
numpy7
lisp5
gnu5
emacs5
scheme4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johnjmolina/MLKyoto
May 2020 - Jul 2022
Data Science and Machine Learning Study Group
Contributions:11 PRs, 128 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencestatistical-learningmachine-learning
johnjmolina/ML-1koza
Apr 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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