Michael Engel
Product Manager at Neural DSP
Bamberg, Bavaria, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Engel is a product-minded systems engineer who blends nine years of hands-on embedded software and hardware experience with entrepreneurial leadership in audio and music tech. He has founded and led Noatronic, moved into C++ development of guitar effect pedals, and progressed to product and general management roles with P&L responsibility at TC Electronic and Neural DSP. Based in Bamberg with academic ties as a professor of system programming, he combines low-level system hacking with product strategy, shipping physical-world software that musicians rely on. His background in electronics engineering and finance gives him an unusual ability to translate technical constraints into commercially viable products. He also serves as a local director in Denmark, demonstrating cross-border operational experience beyond pure engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who programs the physical world—building both the firmware and the business around it.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics at Aarhus UniversityFinancial Management (AP), Financial Management (AP) at Erhvervsakademi Aarhus | Business Academy Aarhus
Danish, English, German
Github Skills (56)
risc8
soc8
z807
680007
bit7
xv67
32-bit7
apple26
risc-v6
openembedded5
megadrive5
65025
zx-spectrum5
c645
sega-genesis5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
michaelengel/xv6-d1
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Port of MIT's xv6 OS to the Nezha RISC-V board with Allwinner D1 SoC
Contributions:1 review, 11 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
risc-vriscvallwinnerxv6risc
michaelengel/tinyemu-riscv-haiku
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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