Ben Averill
Senior Product Designer at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Averill is a Senior Product Designer with nine years of multidisciplinary experience crafting digital experiences for musicians and music-first products. Currently designing at MuseScore in New York, he brings hands-on notation product expertise alongside freelance work that keeps him close to varied client needs. His background blends formal music training (BA in Music from Tufts) with practical design and technical exposure, including early software engineering and video production roles at music tech companies. Ben’s career uniquely bridges creative and technical domains, enabling him to translate complex musical workflows into intuitive user interfaces. He’s comfortable shipping product features at scale while retaining a musician’s attention to detail and user empathy.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music at Tufts UniversityLa Salle Academy
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
musicxml10
cpp10
qt10
music-notation10
music10
python10
notation10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
benaverill/benaverill.github.io
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
musescore/MuseScore
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Contributions:67 reviews, 342 comments, 216 issues in 1 year 9 months
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