London, UK
Real-time audio engineer & instrument designer.
I build the instruments people make music with: real-time audio plugins in C++ and Rust, and the generative tools and AI agents that use them. Currently building PAM at MAP Audio; previously FL Studio at Image-Line.
Selected work
C++ · Rust · JavaScript
A hybrid sampler and sequencer built around eight pattern cells, with sample-accurate MIDI scheduling, granular time-stretching, feedback routing, and modulation mapping. Available as VST3, AU, CLAP, and standalone.
TypeScript · WebAssembly · Web Audio
Founding audio software engineer on Mozart Studio, a browser-based DAW for AI-assisted composition. I build the audio engine: real-time playback and DSP, plugin hosting, and the code that puts generated audio and MIDI into the arrangement.
C++ · WebAssembly
Senior software engineer on FL Studio from 2022 to 2025, writing C++ and WebAssembly across the DAW and Image-Line's web products.
C++
Lead software engineer at Lunacy Audio in Los Angeles. I designed the software architecture and coordinated the development team behind BEAM.
Web Audio
Audio software architect for Arpeggi's browser-based DAW, where songs are composed and stored on-chain.
C++
Audio software R&D at SKR Audio Labs. I developed the audio-engine architecture in C++ for a cloud-based DAW and worked on its client application.
Node.js · React · MobX · TidalCycles
A tracker interface and event sequencer for live coding, built as a JavaScript web application: a Node.js back end that interfaces with GHC and a React front end. The work was published at ICMC 2017 and NIME 2018, and Siren appears in Push Turn Move, Kim Bjørn's book on electronic music instruments.
C++ · Unity · SuperCollider
I built the audio engine and interaction system for Audileum, a multiplayer Unity interface that maps trigger areas in 3D space for live performance and composition. Productions can be re-staged in VR and on the web. The R&D stage was funded by an Arts Council grant and Sound and Music, and ended with a week-long residency at the Barbican's Pit Theatre. A NewToy collaboration.
Arduino · Max/MSP
Patchwork is a computer-controlled acoustic drum machine I built with a visual artist for a Physical Computing final project. I handled the technical development: a Max/MSP sequencer that uses Cycling '74's Mira to drive an Arduino and five solenoids, which strike two acoustic hi-hats and a snare drum.
Research
My MA thesis at the University of Huddersfield. It treats algorithmic processes as extended cognition for the composer: with code, you can build musical structures that would be impractical to write by hand.
A NIME 2018 poster: a preliminary evaluation of Siren's interface using the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework.
An ICMC 2017 paper on Siren's hierarchical composition interface, a tracker-style front end for building and arranging patterns in TidalCycles.
Background
I'm Can, a senior audio software engineer in London. I've spent the past decade building music software: DAWs, plugins, and lately the AI tools inside them.
I shipped PAM, a hybrid sampler and sequencer for MAP Audio, in C++ and Rust, and spent three years on FL Studio at Image-Line, writing C++ and WebAssembly.
My research on composition interfaces has been published at ICMC and NIME, and I was program chair of the FARM workshop at ICFP 2018.
Contact
If you're building real-time audio or AI music software, or hiring for it, I'd like to hear from you.