Ariel Elkin
Mobile Technical Lead at Cognizant
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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Top SchoolAriel Elkin is a seasoned iOS lead with 14 years of mobile engineering experience and a decade delivering production iOS apps across e-commerce, audio processing, and children’s media. He combines hands-on Swift and Objective-C expertise with tech leadership—shaping CI/CD, Agile workflows, and team hiring/training at companies from startups to enterprise clients. Ariel has deep audiovisual and Core Audio experience, evidenced by open-source contributions that hardened the widely used Synthesis ToolKit (STK) C++ audio library. Based in Valencia and holding an MSc in Computer Science from UCL, he blends research-grade technical foundations with practical product delivery. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he’s known for chasing correctness (fixing subtle audio I/O and type bugs) and integrating AI and multimedia features into consumer apps.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
London School of Economics and Political ScienceUniversity College London
French, Spanish, Italian, English
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Github Skills (39)
objective-c10
debug10
c-language10
ios10
lib10
uibezierpath10
signal-processing10
audio-processing10
code-library10
digital-signal-processing10
casting10
svg10
sound-processing10
type-conversion10
swift10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
thestk/stk
Dec 2013 - Apr 2020
The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) is a set of open source audio signal processing and algorithmic synthesis classes written in the C++ programming language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ariel primarily focused on improving the stability and correctness of the Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) library. Their contributions included fixing potential division-by-zero errors, correcting issues in file reading operations related to audio data, and ensuring explicit type casting. Furthermore, the user addressed variable type issues in different components of the library, such as LentPitShift, Granulate and Iir classes, making the code more robust. They also improved the codebase by removing the `register` keyword and making explicit casts for code clarity and maintainability.
signalcppstkc-programmingc-programming-language
shapedbyiris/networker
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Type-safe, API-agnostic networking.
Contributions:43 commits, 4 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 2 months
apiagnosticnetworkingtype-safenetwork
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