Michael Derrenbacher
Validation Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Derrenbacher is a validation engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in SerDes design, silicon bring-up, and automated test infrastructure. He holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly SLO and has progressed from internships to current validation work at Apple after multi-role contributions at Texas Instruments. Michael designs and automates lab and regression tools—converting simulation logs to device instruction sets and building VManager automation—that accelerated debug and bootstrapped validation for new devices. He has led jitter, cable, and video characterization efforts, owned test-chip validation, and supported post-silicon bring-up in the lab. Based in San Jose, he combines hands-on circuit and board expertise with an engineer’s appetite for tooling that turns manual processes into repeatable, scalable validation flows. An uncommon strength is his track record of presenting tooling and results internally to drive cross-functional adoption and faster product iteration.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelDerrenbacher/JenkinsPipeline
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 31 PRs, 44 pushes in 11 days
MichaelDerrenbacher/Various-MATLAB-Problems
Apr 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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