Alexandre Arsenault
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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SeniorAlexandre Arsenault is a software engineer based in Montreal with 11 years of experience building audio and embedded systems software. He has shipped production C/C++ work across companies like Applied Acoustics Systems, Audiokinetic, and LANDR, pairing low-level audio driver knowledge (evidenced by contributions to the popular BlackHole macOS loopback driver) with robust embedded and CI/test tooling experience. Comfortable across CoreAudio, Qt, CMake, and automated testing frameworks, he bridges device-level implementation and higher-level audio product needs. His background in music technology and academic research gives him a practical, signal-aware perspective that informs both feature design and performance tuning.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
c1710
audio10
macos10
driver10
c1110
coreaudio10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ExistentialAudio/BlackHole
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
BlackHole is a modern macOS audio loopback driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero additional latency.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alexandre primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the macOS audio loopback driver, "BlackHole." Their work involved adding features like supported sample rates, fixing include guards, and modifying device and stream property data. The contributions demonstrate an understanding of CoreAudio framework and low-level audio driver development. These changes likely enhanced the driver's functionality and compatibility.
audioblackholedriverloopbackmacos
alxarsenault/OpenAX
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:77 commits in 2 months
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