Derek Mantey
Embedded Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek M. is a Software Engineer with 10 years of experience, currently working on Reality Labs devices at Meta in Redmond. He specializes in the intersection of backend tooling and embedded firmware, turning device-level knowledge into robust update and diagnostic flows. Notable open-source work includes contributions to Microsoft's widely used Azure Kinect Sensor SDK, where he improved the firmware updater, added detailed failure diagnostics, and implemented interrupt tests. Colleagues rely on him for refactors that encapsulate MCU responsibilities and for pragmatic fixes like issuing color MCU resets to improve device reliability.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering Option, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering Option at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (10)
c1710
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kinect10
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embedded9
c-programming-language7
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Firmware Engineer
Back-end Developer & Firmware EngineerContributions:36 commits, 51 PRs, 29 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Kinect sensor SDK, specifically working on the firmware updater tool. Their contributions involved improving the tool's functionality by adding detailed failure information related to certificate types and removing duplicate enums. The user also implemented and refined the firmware update interrupt tests, which required deep knowledge of device firmware. Furthermore, the user refactored the firmware module to encapsulate depthmcu and added logic to issue resets to color MCUs.
windowslinuxkinectsdkopenvr
MsDerekMa/Azure-Kinect-Sensor-SDK
May 2019 - Oct 2019
A cross platform (Linux and Windows) user mode SDK to read data from your Azure Kinect device.
Contributions:2 PRs, 90 pushes, 61 branches in 5 months
windowslinuxkinectsdkcross-platform
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