About
Youssef Hemimy
Audio software engineer building DSP plugins, embedded firmware, and full-stack audio platforms. Currently shipping guitar effect pedals and VST plugins for Keystone Musical Instruments. MS in Data Science with thesis research on neural audio codecs. 7+ years across audio engineering and software development.
Languages: French, Arabic, English (native) — Spanish (conversational)
Experience
CTO — Keystone Musical Instruments
May 2025 – Present
Sole engineer: 7 shipped guitar pedals (STM32H750), 11 VST3/AU plugins (JUCE), desktop control center, commercial licensing system. Involved in manufacturing and product roadmap.
Founder — Bonfire Audio
2024 – Present
Bonfire Bass (genre-aware bassline synth), Bonfire Chords (polyphonic chord synth), BonfireDSP shared library.
Acoustics Supervisor — Acoustics Masters Group
May 2023 – Apr 2025
Led internal software development for acoustic calculations. US-KSA coordination.
Founder & Chief Engineer — Bonfire Productions
May 2018 – Present
154 completed client projects. Clients via THE KITCHEN TV: NBC Universal, HBO, Netflix, BBC.
Education
M.S. in Data Science
Expected June 2026
Thesis: MRHF-Codec — novel neural audio codec, +40dB over Meta’s DAC on HF content
B.S. in Audio Technology
Miami International University
Skills
JUCE, embedded (STM32/Daisy), PolyBLEP, ladder filters, wavetable synthesis, modulation matrices
Patch-theory VCS for DAW projects (agit CLI)
PyTorch, neural audio codecs, librosa, audio feature engineering
React, Express, Next.js, Electron, Supabase, MongoDB, Stripe
AWS, Docker, Render, Vercel, GitHub Actions, CMake, ARM GCC
VST3/AU dev, MIDI/SysEx, EBU R128, STFT, embedded firmware, code signing
Open Source
Clawd Cursor
Admin Contributor26 commits to a 40-tool desktop automation MCP server. Made macOS work properly: a11y routing, GPU detection, memory management.
OpenClaw: Live Events Plugin
Org MemberBuilt and published a Ticketmaster API plugin for the OpenClaw AI agent framework. NPM: @itsuzef/live-events.
TorchFX: Delay Effect
Merged PRBPM-synced delay with musical time divisions and ping-pong stereo for a 128-star PyTorch audio effects library. 82 tests, 1,487 lines.
Zenodo: HTMOneShotLoopClassification
Published Dataset5,561 electronic music samples with 55 audio features. CC-BY-4.0 license. 85.4% baseline accuracy.
1,443 contributions in the last year