Philipp Deppenwiese
Product Manager at Open Source Firmware Foundation
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
🤩
RockstarPhilipp Deppenwiese is a product manager and firmware-focused engineer with 12 years of experience building secure platform software and founding mission-driven companies. He co-founded the Open Source Firmware Foundation and multiple security startups, translating deep technical expertise in TPM, measured boot, and Intel platform support into product and go-to-market leadership. At BINARLY he moved from head of solution engineering into product management, bringing an operator’s perspective to customer-facing security products. His open-source contributions to coreboot highlight hands-on firmware work—adding TPM 1.2/2.0 support, ACPI generation, and mitigations for platform vulnerabilities. Based in Bochum, Germany, he blends entrepreneurial grit with low-level security engineering and a knack for turning firmware features into real-world product value.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
c1710
firmware10
tpm10
c1110
security10
acpi9
x867
assembly7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
coreboot/coreboot
May 2014 - Dec 2020
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Firmware Engineer
Back-end Developer / Firmware EngineerContributions:93 commits in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily focused on enhancing the coreboot firmware, specifically related to TPM (Trusted Platform Module) and platform security. They implemented features for TPM 1.2 and 2.0 support, including ACPI table generation, and improved the existing TPM software stack. Their contributions included fixing vulnerabilities, adding measured boot capabilities, and adding support for hardware such as the Intel TXT, further enhancing the security features of the platform. The work also encompassed adding support for Intel FSP based systems.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
das-labor/overlay
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Gentoo labor overlay
Contributions:17 commits, 26 PRs, 212 pushes in 7 months
gentoolaboroverlay
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.