Summary
Anthony Parks is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and shipping audio and DSP software, currently at Sonos where he writes C++ across codecs (Dolby formats, AAC, Opus, LC3/LC3PLUS) and streaming stacks (HLS, MPEG-DASH). He blends deep academic training—a Ph.D. in architectural acoustics—with pragmatic engineering: unit-test-first development, performance dashboards, and tooling for embedded multi-platform audio. Anthony moves fluidly between production C++ (debugging with gdb, AddressSanitizer, valgrind) and Python test automation (pytest, numpy/scipy), and has led projects from certifying home-theater codecs to building conversational Slack tooling for automation. Beyond engineering, he’s produced electronic music and applies psychoacoustics and measurement-driven approaches to both product features and test strategies, making him equally comfortable with low-level memory debugging and high-level listening experiments.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Minor in Continental Philosophy, 3.33 GPA, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Minor in Continental Philosophy, 3.33 GPA at Vassar College
Master of Science (M.S.), Architectural Acoustics, 3.81 GPA, Master of Science (M.S.), Architectural Acoustics, 3.81 GPA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute