Sami Waheed - System Validation Manager

Sami Waheed

System Validation Manager

Greater Sacramento United States

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Sami Waheed is a System Validation Manager with over 25 years in R&D specializing in storage device qualification for HDDs and SSDs and deep protocol expertise across NVMe, SAS, SCSI, SATA, Fibre Channel and PCIe. He blends hands-on low-level troubleshooting with automation and scripting—having automated over 90% of test cases using C, Linux shell, and Java BeanShell—and writes protocol-specific tools via IO pass-through drivers. At Microchip/Microsemi and previously HP, he led cross-functional validation teams, owned firmware/hardware test architectures, and drove complex transitions such as 4k sector and disk encryption adoption. Sami contributes to the open-source nvme-cli project, improving human-readable NVMe feature decoding and smart-log handling, showing a commitment to practical tooling beyond corporate labs. He pairs systems-level OS knowledge (Linux, Windows, HP-UX) and kernel/IO internals with real-world product qualification experience, making him a bridge between protocol engineering and product readiness. Based in Greater Sacramento, he is equally comfortable mentoring teams as he is debugging protocol traces to root cause elusive storage failures.

10 years of coding experience

20 years of employment as a software developer

California State University, Sacramento

Arabic

Github Skills (9)

command-line-interface10

c-programming10

command-line10

sys9

linux9

file-management9

disk9

disk-image9

embedded9

Programming languages (1)

Github contributions (4)

linux-nvme/nvme-cli

Sep 2015 - Feb 2022

NVMe management command line interface.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:15 commits, 12 PRs, 8 comments in 6 years 6 months

Contributions summary:Sami primarily focused on enhancing the `nvme-cli` tool, specifically by adding functionality to decode and display feature identifier information in a human-readable format. This involved modifying the `nvme.c` file to include string representations for various NVMe features and their corresponding values. Additionally, the user made improvements to the output of LBA range information and corrected byte order issues in the `id-cntrl` command. Further contributions included adding enhancements to the `set-feature` command, and implementing improvements for the `smart-log` page.

management-commandcommand-line-interfacenvmecli

samiWaheed/nvme-cli

Dec 2015 - Jun 2016

Contributions:4 pushes in 6 months

management-commandcommand-line-interfacenvmecli

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