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Alven Yen

Senior Director of Product Management

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Years Experience

8

Roles

24

Skills

2

Education

About

As a seasoned product leader with over 10 years of experience in the storage domain, I've played a pivotal role in bringing Graid Technology from startup to recognized innovator in high-performance storage solutions. I led the product strategy and execution for SupremeRAID™, our industry-leading GPU-accelerated RAID platform tailored specifically for NVMe and NVMe-oF SSD environments. My role centers around deeply understanding complex customer requirements and market trends, translating these insights into actionable product features, and making critical technical decisions to shape the roadmap and drive product success. I closely collaborate and engage with major server vendors to onboard our products, ensuring seamless integration and strategic alignment. Additionally, I author technical whitepapers to clearly articulate our technology’s value to diverse stakeholders. I also actively participate in hands-on product performance benchmarking, rigorous integration testing, and solution architecture—providing practical recommendations and technical expertise directly to sales and solutions teams. Areas of Expertise: - Product Management and Strategy (from concept to market adoption) - GPU-Accelerated RAID Solutions and NVMe Technology - Vendor Enablement and Partner Relationship Management - Performance Benchmarking and Integration Testing - Solution Architecture and Technical Sales Support - Software-defined Storage and Virtualization - Technical Writing and Whitepaper Authorship I'm passionate about turning deep technical expertise and strategic vision into successful, market-leading solutions.

Experience (8 roles)

Full-time · 5 yrs 3 mos

3 roles · May 2020 - Present

Senior Director of Product Management

Current
Jan 2025 - Present · 7 mos

Principal Product Manager

Current
Apr 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

Product Manager

May 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs
2 yrs 11 mos

2 roles · Jul 2017 - May 2020

Technical Project Manager

Nov 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos·New Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Project Manager, Bigtera ● Design and manage Bigtera Virtualstor-8.0 development plan ● Manage NCHC TWGC(Taiwan GPU Cloud) project feature development and system integration ● Prepare the proposal for NCHC TWCC project with bidders ● Introduce our product to customers and design solution based on us...

Supervisor Engineer

Jul 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos·New Taipei City, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Team lead, Bigtera VirtualStor ● Lead front-end team to refactor existing product web UI ● Co-operate with the product manager to design all-flash array product web UI including wireframing and coding

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Senior Software Engineer

Bigtera

May 2014 - Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 3 mos·Taiwan

Software developer, Bigtera VirtualStor ● Integrate a storage cluster with VMWare vSphere platform and implement virtual gateway deployment feature from backend service to web UI. ● Implement the central logging module for a storage cluster system. ● Implement the statistics module for a storage cl...

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Education (2)

Tamkang University

Tamkang University

2008 - 2010

Familiar with information security ,network protocol and network simulation.

Tamkang University

Tamkang University

2004 - 2008

Focus on network programming and embedded system developing.

Skills (24)

Product DesignAmazon EC2Product StrategySoftware Solution ArchitecturePythonAssembly LanguageCustomer EngagementVirtualizationC++Technical WritingCloud ComputingLinuxPartner Relationship ManagementDisk EncryptionLinuxEC2CloudPythonProduct ManagementObject Oriented DesignProgrammingEmbedded SystemsSoftware DevelopmentUnit Testing
Languages (2)
Chinese(Native or bilingual proficiency)English(Professional working proficiency)
Honors & Awards (2)

Trend Micro Programming Contest 2010

Jan 2010

Associated with Tamkang University ● Learn about Java Servlet and distributed computing. ● Won fifth place and collaboration award.

Trend Micro Programming Contest 2009

Aug 2009

Associated with Tamkang University ● Learn about Java and Hadoop. ● Won fifth place and trustworthinesss award.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Alven Yen's current role?
Alven Yen is currently working as Senior Director of Product Management at Full-time · 5 yrs 3 mos.
Where did Alven Yen study?
Alven Yen studied Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tamkang University. They have 2 education entries on their profile.
What skills does Alven Yen have?
Alven Yen's top skills include Product Design, Amazon EC2, Product Strategy, Software Solution Architecture, Python. They have 24 skills listed on their profile.

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