Michael Lenz is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on making reliable, maintainable systems work in production. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has been with Lam Research since 2016 after interning there, delivering C#-based software and collaborating across control, software, and user teams. He combines hands-on implementation, testing, and documentation—having written user directions and operational guides—to ensure solutions are usable beyond code. His background in computer software engineering from Cal Poly and coursework at Stanford underpins a disciplined, engineering-first approach to problem solving. Colleagues rely on him to bridge domain experts and developers to turn real-world manufacturing requirements into practical software. He brings steady, detail-oriented execution and a bias for shipping working software in complex hardware-adjacent environments.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Computer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
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