John Grimsley

About John Grimsley

Veteran Hardware Engineer with a strong background working R&D with server, notebook and desktop products. I am very familiar with the major suppliers of SSD and HDD.• Top skills are troubleshooting system integration issues seen with new storage technologies• Demonstrated protocol expertise with SATA, SAS disk drives, also SATA, SAS SSD in new product development. And now NVMe too.• Significant experience working on-site to solve Fortune 100 customer issues• Experienced in working with other internal mechanical and software teams to leverage other expertise needed to solve problems• Extensive experience testing drive firmware and checking compliance to industry standards• Developed strong relationships with drive suppliers teams of Firmware, Mechanical, Product and Application Engineers• Responsible for qualification of highest capacity and highest volume midline SAS and SATA SSD, and hard disk drives over the past 13 years• Participated in cross-functional teams to improve quality, TCE, and introduce time to market technology• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and willing to travel 25% of the time to support customers and new design centers

Experience

1. Test Engineer

   Microchip

   Jan 2026 — Present

Skills

• Storage Virtualization
• Virtualization
• Hard Drives
• Sas
• Embedded Software
• Asic
• Storage Management
• Raid
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Servers
• Hardware Architecture
• Firmware
• Storage Area Networks
• Solid-State Drive (Ssd)
• San
• Hardware
• Storage Solutions
• Usb
• Computer Hardware
• Nas
• High Availability
• Serial Ata (Sata)
• Deduplication
• Troubleshooting
• Software Development
• Hp Products
• Debugging
• System Architecture
• Server Architecture
• Disk Arrays
• Storage
• Device Drivers
• Data Center
• Enterprise Storage
• Cloud Computing
• Integration
• Scsi
• Operating Systems
• Rtos
• Ssd