Dennis Potter
PHY RTL Design Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDennis Potter is a PHY RTL design engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building high-speed Ethernet and optical DSP subsystems for automotive and datacom applications, currently working at Apple after leading PHY and DSP efforts at Marvell. He combines deep digital IC expertise—from RTL and SystemC to firmware and lab bring-up—with practical tooling skills, having created Linux-integrated design environments, automation frameworks, and on-chip debug/post-processing tools. Dennis has shipped ISO26262-qualified automotive PHYs and the industry’s first Coherent-lite 1.6 Tbps O-band DSP Rx firmware, demonstrating both architectural vision and execution across hardware, firmware, and verification. A lifelong tinkerer with a master’s in Micro- and Nano Electronics from RWTH Aachen, he automates mundane problems with small programs and enjoys exploring Linux internals, economics, and geopolitics in his spare time. Not obvious from titles alone: he also managed complex IT operations for a high-volume restaurant early in his career, honing practical systems and people-management skills.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Micro- and Nano Electronics, Master’s Degree Micro- and Nano Electronics at RWTH Aachen UniversityGymnasium, Gymnasium at Sophianum Scholengemeenschap in het Heuvelland
English, German, Dutch
Github Skills (25)
simulation10
modeling-tool10
simulator9
membership9
grid9
registers9
club-management8
user-management8
realtime8
lists7
reflect7
php7
fpga6
asic6
backbonejs6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Silicon1602/srdl2sv
May 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:171 commits, 32 pushes, 2 comments in 6 months
Silicon1602/footswitch-rs
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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