In July 2025, I rejoined VMWare (Broadcom) as a performance engineer. Before that, I was an open source staff engineer at Samsung (San Jose, CA). I worked on CXL eco-system and contributed to both Linux kernel and Qemu (a full system emulator).
I have backgrounds in both computer architecture and storage/file systems (holding two Ph.Ds from BUAA, China and UT Arlington, US, respectively ). I am an expert in data deduplication, SSD-based file systems and storage systems design.
"Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."
Personal email: nifan dot man at gmail dot com
I have a lovely family, and enjoy having time with my wife and two kids.