Bjørn Nielsen
Co-Founder And CEO at Sononym
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorBjørn Nielsen is a seasoned software designer and founder with over 30 years of creative and technical experience and 11 years focused on startup leadership as Co-Founder and CEO of Sononym in Berlin. He blends deep hands-on development and interactive design roots—from early illustrator and graphic design roles to game and UX work at LEGO and Renoise—with product-led engineering to build music- and audio-focused tooling. At Sononym he has steered the company since 2016, turning long-form domain expertise into a specialized product that sits at the intersection of audio research and usable software. His career shows a rare continuity: evolving graphics and interaction craft into robust software services across decades, demonstrating both creative sensibility and pragmatic engineering. Colleagues describe him as a founder who still ships code and leverages a background in design to inform intuitive technical products.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, German, Danish
Github Skills (58)
id310
vorbis10
scripting10
mp310
wav10
aiff10
sequencer10
midi10
lua10
audio10
opus10
ape10
flac10
m4a10
ogg10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
renoise/xLib
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Extended classes for working with the Renoise API
Contributions:131 commits, 57 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
apirenoiseextended
renoise/renoise.github.io
May 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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