Summary
M Jones is a Sr. Staff Engineer and firmware architect with 30+ years of hands-on experience designing embedded systems, SSD/NVMe stacks, and real-time kernels across industries from storage and networking to medical and aerospace. He has led firmware teams and delivered production NVMe protocol implementations, abstractions that eased SoC porting, and shipped multiple SSD generations at Seagate and Micron. At Samsung he combines hardware modeling in C++/SystemC with modern AI tooling—building LLM inference servers and vector DB pipelines for Retrieval-Augmented Generation to explore AI-focused storage architectures. An author of seven books and numerous articles, he pairs deep systems expertise (ARM, PowerPC, x86, legacy micros, Linux, QNX, VxWorks, and custom RTOSes) with practical product leadership and agile team management. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly prototypes blue-sky ideas (ZNS, eBPF computational storage, virtualization-based I/O) to produce patentable innovations and customer-facing demos. Based in Erie, Colorado, he blends low-level firmware craft with current AI/data tooling to bridge future storage and machine-learning infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rivier University