Adrian Knoth
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAdrian Knoth is a seasoned software engineering manager with 22 years of experience leading reliability and systems teams across Google, YouTube, and now Meta’s Reality Labs in Zurich. He blends deep academic roots—a Ph.D. in computer engineering focused on latency-aware digital audio—with hands-on SRE and backend expertise, having shipped production systems at scale and led incident-resilient teams. An active open-source maintainer in audio projects like JACK2 and Ardour, he has contributed low-level audio processing fixes and usability improvements that reflect both systems-level rigor and product sensitivity. Comfortable at the intersection of research and production, he’s known for pragmatic engineering, mentoring leaders, and quietly improving developer and user experiences through careful, low-level technical work.
22 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing. Computer Engineering, Dr.-Ing. Computer Engineering at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
English, German, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
audio10
audio-processing10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
cplus10
dac9
linux9
develop9
dag9
dao9
gtk8
debug8
debugging8
midi7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jackaudio/jack2
Feb 2012 - Feb 2018
jack2 codebase
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:95 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily contributed to the JACK2 codebase, focusing on enhancing the audio processing capabilities. Their work involved bug fixes related to incorrect argument handling in `jack_connect`, as well as significant improvements to the FFADO backend, introducing features such as buffer size modification and latency updates for firewire devices. The contributions include the introduction and usage of the `UpdateLatencies()` function, and porting patches from jackd1. They also addressed compilation issues and improved code quality.
javacodebase
Ardour/ardour
Mar 2013 - Feb 2016
Mirror of Ardour Source Code
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on improving the Ardour digital audio workstation's code base, addressing various issues. Their contributions included fixing typos, fixing licensing issues, adding user confirmation prompts before removing export formats and presets, and introducing a configuration variable for default fade shapes. Additionally, the user added an option to display the mixer in fullscreen mode, enhancing the application's usability.
vstmidic-plus-plusaudiodaw
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