Dan Helmick
Principal Architect for Enterprise SSDs at Samsung Electronics | Trophy Husband in Training
- Role
- Principal Architect at Samsung Semiconductor
- Location
- Erie, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Dan Helmick
Dan is a Principal Architect focusing on future generation NVMe SSDs for Samsung Semiconductor. A strong background in HDD Control Systems has folded into performance FW in SSDs and future product architectures for storage products of several different medias. Dan has worked closely with customers to understand future requirements, develop industry leading standards to achieve those requirements, and design the product feature for servicing the new standardized feature. He has been the primary SSD Architect shaping features such as Zoned Namespaces (ZNS), Flexible Data Placement (FDP), Live Migration (LM), Quality of Service (QoS), and many more industry leading features. Dan carries a robust track record of patenting the implementation to these features as they\'re being developed.
Experience
Principal Architect
Aug 2022 — Present
Team Lead for Technical Customer and Standards Engagement driving alignment on customer requirements towards solutions most implementable in SSDs- Optimizing PCIe Gen7 Enterprise SSDs for GPU direct access for accelerated AI and ML workloads- Leading a team developing end-to-end Multi-Tenancy architecture in enterprise SSDs- Primary SSD Architect guiding Live Migration standards development
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
BS, Mechanical Engineering
1998 — 2002
Carnegie Mellon University
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
2004 — 2008
Carnegie Mellon University
MS, Mechanical Engineering
2002 — 2004
Skills
- Debugging
- System Architecture
- Sata
- Research
- Arm Architecture
- Firmware
- Remote Development
- Control Systems Design
- Storage
- Reram
- Pcie
- Algorithms
- C++
- Research and Development (R&D)
- Modeling
- Nvdimm
- Labview
- Competitive Analysis
- Product Development
- Embedded Systems
- C
- Servo Control
- Data Analysis
- Six Sigma
- R&D
- Embedded Software
- Automation
- Multidisciplinary Design
- Simulations
- Performance Tuning
- Matlab
- Arm
- Control System Design
- Qos
- Nvme
- Engineering Management
- Failure Analysis
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