Summary
Spencer Kulbacki is a Staff Hardware Platform Board Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of hands-on experience designing and validating high-volume consumer and automotive electronics. He progressed from iPhone hardware engineering—owning schematics, rigid/flex layout, BOM management, and factory bring-up for products shipping hundreds of millions of units—to leading infotainment and connectivity platform work for Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies. Trained at RIT in Electrical Engineering Technology, Spencer combines deep PCB and manufacturing expertise with practical reliability testing and field-failure analysis. A maker at heart, he extends his professional work into automotive tinkering, 3D printing, and hobby PCB projects, and has spent extended stints embedded in SMT/FATP factories and automotive facilities in the U.S. and Germany. Notably, his background includes space-and-defense digital engineering and teaching-focused R&D leadership, reflecting a broad technical palette that spans strict ESD Class 0 practices to consumer-scale production.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering Technology at Rochester Institute of Technology
High School, High School at Kimball Union Academy
French