Bas De Haas
CEO, Founder, Music Informatics Researcher
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas De Haas is a founder-CEO and music informatics researcher with 13 years of experience building Chordify, a music e-learning platform that turns any song into playable chords. He holds a PhD in Music Information Retrieval and applies expertise in digital signal processing, music cognition, and machine learning to make music education affordable and personalized. As a Haskell developer and former postdoc at Utrecht University, he bridges rigorous academic research with product-driven engineering. Bas is a guitarist and entrepreneur who has led a small team from research prototype to a widely used consumer product. His work on tonal harmony similarity and the MUSIVA project reflects a research-led approach that informs Chordify’s state-of-the-art audio analysis. Based in the Randstad, he combines deep domain knowledge with hands-on technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
jazz guitar, jazz guitar at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)Master, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Master, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
chord-diagram10
piano9
parsing9
music9
midi9
synthesizer8
audio8
hyphenation8
haskell2
julia2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
chordify/HarmTrace-Base
Sep 2012 - Sep 2019
HarmTrace Base: Parsing and unambiguously representing musical chords
Contributions:132 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 years 1 month
chord-diagramsynthesizerhyphenationmidichords
haas/harmtrace
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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