Summary
Dennis Kempin is a Senior Engineering Manager with 14 years of systems and security-focused software engineering experience, currently leading Android laptops and tablets hardware security at Google in Mountain View. He has deep technical roots in virtualization, firmware, and low-level I/O—having led crosvm (a Rust-based VMM) and managed teams building custom ARM SoC firmware for confidential compute and high-speed interfaces like PCIe/UCIe. His career spans hands-on kernel and device driver work, real-time systems and simulation from projects at X (Loon) to ChromeOS, demonstrating a rare combination of firmware, virtualization, and hardware security expertise. Dennis is experienced in pre-silicon test infrastructure and scalable platform engineering, and he routinely coaches and grows engineering teams. Colleagues know him for bridging research-grade prototypes (CUDA/C++ and simulation work from his university days) into production-grade Google services. Based in Mountain View, he brings both deep technical credibility and program-level leadership to complex hardware-software integrations.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diplomingenieur (Master-level), Media / Computer Engineering, Diplomingenieur (Master-level), Media / Computer Engineering at RWTH Aachen University
English, German