Derek Mantey
Embedded Software Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Mantey is an embedded software engineer with 10 years of experience building firmware, drivers, and tools for mixed-reality and server platforms, currently developing firmware and drivers for Meta Reality Labs devices in Redmond. He has a deep background at Microsoft where he owned drivers for Windows Mixed Reality headsets, contributed to HoloLens support, and worked on OpenBMC for Azure servers, blending low-level firmware work with higher-level SDK and tooling. Derek’s open-source contributions to the widely used Azure Kinect Sensor SDK include firmware updater improvements, richer failure diagnostics, and firmware-module refactoring—demonstrating hands-on expertise with MCUs and firmware update testing. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering with a computer engineering focus and brings an uncommon mix of hardware-centered co-op experience, FPGA/microcontroller coding, and large-scale product bring-up. Colleagues rely on him for reliable device bring-up, USB/firmware reliability fixes, and pragmatic tooling that bridges firmware and host software.
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)
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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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