Summary
Serdar Yeralan is a senior hardware and consumable lifecycle manager with 11 years of experience driving NPI, sustaining engineering, and manufacturing readiness for complex medical and semiconductor instruments. He blends deep technical training in applied physics/mechanical engineering with LEAN, Six Sigma and DBS expertise to deliver rapid yield recoveries, multi‑x productivity gains, and accelerated product launches. At Cepheid and Confluent he led cross‑functional teams that took yields from single digits to >99%, scaled automated metrology across dozens of lines, and cut process times while reducing error rates to under 1%. Known for merging medical science sensibilities with manufacturing rigor, he excels at vendor selection, DFx integration, and turning legacy designs into production-ready systems. Raised in a family of engineers and scientists, he pairs relentless curiosity with empathy-driven leadership that repeatedly converts technical breakthroughs into commercial impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Thermal-Fluidics / Combustion Science, M.S. Thermal-Fluidics / Combustion Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-doc Applied Combustion Science, Post-doc Applied Combustion Science at Penn State University
High School Science and Engineering, High School Science and Engineering at Deneme lisesi
University of Missouri
English, German, Turkish