Marcelo Brandalero
Digital Design Engineer at Apple
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcelo Brandalero is a Digital Design Engineer with 11 years of experience blending academic research and industry-grade silicon design, currently working at Apple after senior digital-IP roles at Infineon. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and has postdoctoral research experience in computer architecture, reconfigurable and embedded systems, with a focus on performance- and energy-efficient microprocessor design and approximate computing. Marcelo’s background spans hands-on RTL and methodology work, digital IP leadership, and exploratory research—bridging proof-of-concept ideas to production-ready hardware. Based in Dresden, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and industrial delivery, having moved between European research labs and leading semiconductor teams. Not immediately obvious from titles: his early work included dynamic hardware-implemented code optimization and multiple-ISA embedded systems, informing his practical approach to hardware/software co-design.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dr., Computer Science, Dr., Computer Science at Federal University of Rio Grande do SulElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Technische Universität München
Portuguese, English, German
Github Skills (22)
fpga7
opencl6
vhdl6
architecture6
cuda5
chisel4
electrical-engineering4
scala4
gpu4
risc3
python3
ieee3
fuzzy-logic3
robocup3
mojo3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mbrandalero/mbrandalero.github.io
Mar 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
mbrandalero/datasciencecoursera
Oct 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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