Audio Software Engineer
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Hemimy
I design and build audio products end-to-end. Commercial guitar pedals, instrument plugins, and a neural audio codec that outperforms Meta's. CTO at Keystone Musical Instruments.
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Guitar Pedals.
Seven guitar effect pedals, designed, programmed, and shipped to market. One C++ codebase powers both the hardware and the VST3 plugins. From first prototype to commercial product in under a year.
144K
Lines of C++
11
VST3/AU Plugins
253
Commits
KONTINUUM
Delay
KLIPTOR
DJ Gate
KUTTOR
Slice Shaper
KASKADE
Echo Bender
KAVERN
Plate Reverb
KOSMOS
Phaser
KAROUSEL
Rotor
Write Once, Deploy Twice
Same DSP algorithms run on ARM hardware pedals and desktop plugins. One codebase, two platforms.
Custom QSPI Bootloader
Users update pedal firmware over USB. Custom bootloader handles validation and rollback automatically.
Commercial Licensing
Automated license flow from Shopify purchase to plugin activation, with multi-device support.
Bonfire Audio · Founder
Bonfire Audio
An indie audio company building synthesizer plugins from the ground up. Every oscillator, filter, and effect is hand-written DSP, shipped with modern React-based interfaces.
MS Thesis Research
emcodec
A neural audio codec that preserves the high frequencies other codecs destroy. Where Meta's DAC produces noise above 6kHz, emcodec faithfully reconstructs the signal.
240+
Test cases
11.8%
Lower bitrate
Full-Stack Applications
Developer Tools
Open-source infrastructure for AI-powered music production and plugin development.
About
CTO at Keystone Musical.
MS Data Science (Expected June 2026).
BS Audio Technology.
I work across the full depth of audio software, from ARM firmware and real-time DSP to neural networks and web applications. Everything I build starts with the same question: does this make a musician's life better?