Madhavan Sekar

About Madhavan Sekar

Experienced in product development lead and Systems design for SSD with a demonstrated history of working in the memory, NAND, PCIE, NVMe, SSD product. Self-motivated individual having experience in leading the products development, planning and executing the complete product Development Life Cycle, High and Low Level Systems/Software Requirements, Detailed Design, Coding, Integration, Verification and Validation (V&V) and Reviews. Skilled in NVMe, PCIe, NAND, Do178B/C, ARINC 653/429/424/661 protocols, Certification, RTOS, Embedded C and Framework creation, Device drivers, Platform software for Displays.

Experience

1. Principal Engineer Pdt Lead

   Micron Technology

   Oct 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Involved in SSD system design with Power, performance and thermal characterization of the product • Product lead, delivering value lane SSDs with quality and best in class • Delivering products with high quality with no critical issues on time with cost effective solutions. • Maintaining dashboards for the JIRA for PDL activities. • Involved in Product design review and preparation of materials for current product. • Burning down bugs, Driving Hardware sync up, Driving BRB meetings, Driving MST Meetings • As PDL, leading the BRB (Bug review) meetings and JIRA burndown / backlogs and coordination with firmware / validation teams. • Leading the validation syncup meetings, PQE BRB meetings and heading to closure • System Level characterization. Power performance and Thermal characterization of the SSD products. • Created Firmware signing utilities to create the Micron header structure and Firmware signing • Involved in Firmware upgrade packages for every release dev signing, prod signing packages for external customer release. • Involved in Latency measurements for Different power states, used PCIE trace analyzer, Lecroy/ VIAVI analyzer for boot up traces as well • Involved in Certification testing for NVME products.( PY NVMe, UNH IOL ) PCIe Sigcertification of product • Created the Retrim setups and used to set the Trim sets for the SSD to boost the performance using mconfig and database trim set value changes • Involved in setting up modeling systems for performance characterization • Involved in NAND ONFI characterization using keysight logic analyzer and measured ONFI speed across read/write operation • involved in thermal characterization with different temperatures including hot and cold temp. Measured power and performance at different throttling stages TMT1 and TMT2, light/heavy throttling. • Involved in setup of remanufacturing flow script to Reinitialize the drives

Education

• BANNARI AMMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,SATHYAMANGALAM

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• Lean Manufacturing
• Clearcase
• Testing
• Systems Engineering
• Embedded Systems
• Project Management
• Engineering
• Aerospace
• Engineering Management