Blai Catalán
Senior Software Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolBlai Catalán is a Senior Software Engineer and industrial PhD in Computer Science with 11 years of experience building high-performance audio and machine learning systems for the music industry. He developed Deep Music Detector, a C++/Python deep-learning pipeline that processes an hour of audio in ~25 seconds and won MIREX in 2018 and 2019, and has led productionization, maintenance and cross-team integration of audio fingerprinting and metadata systems at BMAT. Based in Barcelona, he blends research rigor with production engineering—designing scalable Debian/Docker deployments, Django-based model-training platforms and real-world evaluation datasets that are used by other researchers. Recently focused on R&D roles at Ansys and Synopsys, he brings a rare combination of signal-processing expertise, software optimization and project leadership across publicly funded and commercial initiatives.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Universitat Pompeu FabraUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, German, Japanese, Catalan, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
pytorch10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
recurrent-neural-networks9
tensorflow9
sound-processing9
deep-learning9
music-information-retrieval9
python-bindings8
music8
jax8
audio8
keras8
temporal8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BlaiMelendezCatalan/BAT
Dec 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 reviews, 51 commits, 24 PRs in 4 years 2 months
BlaiMelendezCatalan/MIREX2018_eval
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 3 years 1 month
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