Vikram Manja
I am a Computer Engineer currently working in the Bay Area who has spent the last 5 years working in the Storage industry. I am comfortable working close to the Hardware or developing higher-level Software.
Experience
Staff Engineer (Solidigm)
Produced a specialized SSD Firmware mechanism in C to transform the SSD into a test-tool capable of transmitting custom PCIe packets on-demand.
Senior Engineer (Solidigm)
Oct. 2022 - Present
Jul. 2022 - Oct. 2022
Senior Product Engineer (SK Hynix Memory Solutions)
Debugged, reproduced, and root-caused SSD failures through the entire product life cycle of 2 generations of NVMe SSDs.
Developed NVMe and PCIe stress tests for Solid State Drives.
Designed an automated test suite for MCTP and NVMe-MI protocols.
Coordinated with Hardware, Firmware, SOC, and customer teams to drive issue closure.
Product Engineer (SK Hynix Memory Solutions)
Created python scripts to log and chart SSD parametric data and trends
Captured and analyzed PCIe bus traces and waveforms to investigate SSD issues and understand system behavior.
Mar. 2020 - Jul. 2022
Aug. 2018 - Mar. 2020
Software Engineer Intern (Intel Corporation)
Worked in an Agile Scrum DevOps team to develop and maintain a stable automated testing environment.
Jun. 2015 - Dec. 2015
Education
Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)
Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering
GPA: 3.59
May 2017