Summary
Dave Desrochers is a founder, CEO, and engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering embedded systems and firmware for hardware-centric products. As founder, CEO, and engineer at Intercreate since 2016, he leads firmware development, embedded system architecture, electrical engineering, and manufacturing testing, turning tough challenges into shipped solutions. Prior to Intercreate, he held senior engineering roles at Aether Things and Navdy, driving board bring-up, capacitive touch hardware/software, and low-level firmware across embedded Linux and bare-metal MCUs, with notable work in DSP optimization and hardware architecture. His early career at Intel spanned software and hardware roles in graphics, RTL design, and driver interfaces, grounding him in end-to-end system collaboration across software and chip teams. He holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and is based in San Francisco. Outside of code, he embraces the practical side of product development and enjoys solving problems that bridge hardware and software to deliver reliable, scalable systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida