Vikram Manja

Senior Staff Engineer (SK Hynix Memory Solutions)

• Lead a small Test Development Team for NVMe-MI/OCP Firmware/SOC Validation

• Served as technical lead/policymaker for MCTP over PCIe technology

Staff Engineer (Solidigm)

• Drove issue closure by working closely with Firmware, SoC, PCIe PHY, and Field Engineering teams after initial triage and failure debugging

• 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) 

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.

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.

Software Engineer Intern (Intel Corporation) 

• Worked in an Agile Scrum DevOps team to develop and maintain a stable automated testing environment.

Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana)

• Bachelors of Science, Computer Engineering

• GPA: 3.59