Ning (Kenny) Lee
San Jose,CA
Summary
Server expert with 12+ years of technical validation/infrastructure engineering experience, with 2+ years of high productivity and efficient task completion Manager experience.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Applications Validation
SuperMicro
San Jose, CA
04.2023 - Current
- Lead a team of engineers in the validation of high-performance server solutions, focusing on GPU, BMC, BIOS, storage, networking, CPU, and memory, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
- Develop and implement comprehensive validation strategies for server component-level testing, including thermal management, reliability assessments, and power consumption analysis.
- Oversee L10 validation processes, ensuring thorough compatibility testing and performance benchmarking for server products, leading to a 30% improvement in validation efficiency.
- Collaborate with R&D, product management, and quality assurance teams to align validation processes with product development timelines and data center deployment requirements.
- Analyze performance benchmarks and test results, troubleshoot complex issues, and provide actionable recommendations that enhance product reliability and customer satisfaction.
Sr. Infrastructer Engineer
Uber Technologies Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
11.2020 - 03.2023
- Responsible for server design verification and validation tasks on NPI phase product HW/FW/OS/application throughout the project cycle - EVT to MP.
- Design and execute in-Lab and Data Center hyper-scaling validation activities at L10/L11 level, including test plan design, execution, test data processing, and analysis.
- Plan and execute multi-sourced key commodities qualification to enable product compatibility and project flexibility - Storage, NIC, DIMM.
- Lead ODM vendors for AMD platform and Power Shelf firmware development, and support Intel x86 platform and GPU system validation tasks.
- Support root cause analysis on system failures, identify and track issues, provide guidance to implement solutions and fixes.
- Develop bash scripts for at-scale testing automation, validation, and debugging under a Linux environment.
- Experienced with git-based operations for mass-scale firmware deployment in a data center production environment.
Sr. Application Validation Engineer
Supermicro
06.2016 - 10.2020
- Lead validation tasks at L6/L10 level of Intel x86 architecture mainstream server product, including design verification, functionality validation, and compatibility qualification.
- Record and analyze test data, report issues to bug tracking system and further verify solutions and work around to reported issues
- Review and improve the existing test plan, create a new test plan for new feature testing, and marginal test cases.
- Conduct performance benchmarking and stress test reliability at the system level and by subsystems.
- (CPU/Memory/PCle/Network/Storage/BMC/BIOS)
Graduate Assistant (IT Support)
MATEC UIC
Chicago, IL
05.2015 - 12.2015
- Install and perform minor repairs to hardware, software, and peripheral equipment following design or installation specs.
- Set up equipment for employees' use, performing or ensuring proper installation of cable, operating systems, and appropriate software.
- Oversee the daily performance of computer systems
Storage Solutions Research Engineer
Infortrend
10.2011 - 12.2012
- Design and implement best practices for server/storage networking-related applications/features, storage certification programs, and product test plans (NAS, SAN, and Clustering).
- Conduct new storage product testing and verification before launch
- Responsible for providing technical product training to internal employees and customers.
Education
M.S - Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
12.2015
B.S - Electrical Engineering
California State Univerity, Northridge
12.2009
Skills
- (L10) Server platform architecture - Intel and AMD x86 architecture; single to up to four processor multiprocessor platform (Birch stream, Eagle stream, Whitley, Purley platform); air cooling and liquid cooling; GPU server (H100/H100NVL, L40/L40S/L4, GB200); OCP, DC-MHS,
- (L10) Firmware/software applications - BMC (OpenBMC, IPMI, Redfish API for Server, PowerShelf, PDU - BMC/SMC/PMC); BIOS (AMI/Insyde); CPLD (FPGA)/GPU/NIC/NVMe/SSD FW
- (L11) Rack architecture - PowerShelf (ATS switching), Network PDU (APC); RJ45 1G/10G networking switch, high-speed 100G/200G/400G Infiniband switch
- (L6) Component/Commodities - CPU - Intel Xeon (Xeon 6 SRF/GNR (SP/AP), Xeon SP 5th gen SPR/EMR, Xeon 4th gen ICX, Xeon CLX/SKX) / AMD EPYC (Millan/Rome); Memory - RDIMM 2666~6400 MHz various vendors Samsung/Hynix/Micron Multi rank; Intel Memory RAS feature; GPU - Nvidia H100/H100NVL, L4/L40/L40S, GB200, NVLink; Network - 1G~400G ethernet NICs Intel/BRCM/Mellanox(NVidia), Infiniband CX3(QDR)~CX7(NDR); Storage - NVMe/SATA/SAS E1S/M2/U2/U3, SSD/HDD
- Scripting - Linux/Bash, Windows/Batch, JQ, JSON
- CPU tools - Linpack/HPL/PTAT/AMDSST/NVSSVT/OneDiag
- Memory tools - Stream/MLC/memtester/memtest86
- GPU tools - NVqual/Nvidia-smi/gpuburn/nvbandwidth/CUDA/DCGM
- Storage tools - FIO/VDBench/Sysbench
- Networking tools - iperf/ntttcp/doca/network-nvqual(for Blue Field 3)/infiniband tools (ib_send_bw etc)
- Others - JIRA, ServiceNow, slack, teams,
Timeline
Manager, Applications Validation
SuperMicro
04.2023 - Current
Sr. Infrastructer Engineer
Uber Technologies Inc.
11.2020 - 03.2023
Sr. Application Validation Engineer
Supermicro
06.2016 - 10.2020
Graduate Assistant (IT Support)
MATEC UIC
05.2015 - 12.2015
Storage Solutions Research Engineer
Infortrend
10.2011 - 12.2012
M.S - Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Chicago
B.S - Electrical Engineering
California State Univerity, Northridge
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