# Philipp Kurz

> Engineering @ Serval | AI Agents for IT

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/philippkurz

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Serval
Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco, CA

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Mateo, CA
Core Services - Device Management

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Virtual Guard / Camera Alarms - New Product
Architected and built Go backend 0 (first backend commit) to 1 (launch readiness)

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Alarms
Worked on reliability & device authentication (Python backend, Go device firmware)

### Software Engineer @ Verkada
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Mateo, California, United States
Internship during the summer semester of my MSCS program.
Built product backend 0 to 1 on a new SaaS product coming out of Verkada Alarms.

### Software Engineer @ FARO Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Remote software position to bridge the gap before moving to Pittsburgh for my master's program.
Built a cloud backend system for an industrial IoT research project (ARENA2036).

### Research Engineer @ Porsche AG
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Weissach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Wrote my undergrad thesis in Porsche's autonomous driving research group.
Lots of data analysis, number crunching, and LaTeX.

### Software Engineer @ Bosch
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Six month internship at Bosch's Silicon Valley office in a small internal startup (2 biz devs + me).
Did all the engineering for an AgTech project from cellular gateways in the field all the way to cloud backend on AWS. Drove out to orchards across California every other week.

### Embedded Software Engineer @ elero Gmbh
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Schlierbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Working student position for bare-metal programming of STM32 microcontrollers in C++.

### Automation Engineer @ Lanco Integrated
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Internship abroad with focus factory automation engineering.
Programmed machines to automate airline catering.

### Mechatronics Engineer @ Festo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Esslingen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Vocational apprenticeship as mechatronics technician.
Metalworking, machining, switch cabinets, PCBs, soldering, programming, factory automation.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Year Abroad
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Mechatronics
Hochschule Esslingen - University of Applied Sciences

### Abitur
Gymnasium Plochingen


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kurz-philipp
- Portfolio: https://philippkurz.net
- GitHub: https://github.com/philipp-kurz

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Last updated: 2026-04-10