Alex Olsen
Staff Software Engineer at Vault.fm
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Olsen is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with a decade of experience building high-performance consumer audio software and developer-facing libraries using TypeScript, React, and C++. He maintains popular open-source DSP and MIDI processing libraries (over 8,000 weekly downloads) and has contributed to foundational C++ MIDI/Electron projects such as rtmidi. Alex combines senior frontend work at IkigaiLabs and Vault.fm with real-world audio expertise as a freelance musician and producer who has worked with Grammy-winning artists, giving him rare product intuition around sound, latency, and hardware emulation. He’s led small engineering teams for startups and nonprofits, shipping features under tight timelines while ensuring scalable infrastructure. Colleagues rely on him for bridging music production, Web Audio APIs, and performance-critical native modules to deliver studio-grade experiences in the browser and on stage.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Level 3 Certificate Honors Jazz Piano, Level 3 Certificate Honors Jazz Piano at New England Conservatory of MusicBM - Music Business Business Administration and Management General, BM - Music Business Business Administration and Management General at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (99)
resample10
javascript10
midi10
music10
scalable10
electron10
foundation10
typescript10
eslint10
nodejs10
dmx51210
hardware10
webpack10
midi-controller10
web-audio-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aolsenjazz/silence-listener-node
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Pseudo AudioNode to notify when an audio stream becomes silent.
Contributions:41 commits, 16 PRs, 37 pushes in 4 months
audiostream-audionodejsstreamaudionode
aolsenjazz/feeder-node
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Feed mono or stereo audio data for playback. Ideal for real-time audio.
Contributions:34 commits, 10 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 10 months
realtimewebrtcplaybackstreamreal-time-audio
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