firmware @ solidigm

Jan - Aug 2023

My most recent co-op term was at Solidigm, where I worked on firmware development on the Direct Memory Access (DMA) team, Flash Translation Layer domain. Solidigm used to be a division of Intel until it was acquired by SK hynix in 2020.

DMA functionality is essentially the transfer of data to/from the SSD controller. The host machine sends NVMe commands to the SSD, which contain operations to execute and where to execute them (host memory addresses). My focus here is on the memory addresses that are stored in the command (SGL and PRP structures). The process of fetching the addresses and the relevant data from the host into controller memory, and preparing the data payloads to be sent to the NAND flash is the basis for the work that I did here.

education @ ubc

2020 - Expected 2025 Graduation

I'm studying computer engineering in the faculty of applied science (BASc.) at the University of British Columbia. My courses have mainly revolved around computer architecture, digital logic design, operating systems, and embedded systems.

I was previously part of an engineering design team called Mars Colony, where I was the team lead for electrical and firmware development on the Sabatier Reactor project. We created a working chemical reactor using the Sabatier reaction to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into water and methane, which would be used for creating methalox rocket fuel. I contributed to the development of the electrical control system firmware, which ran a real-time operating system on an STM32 and Arduino microcontrollers.