Brian Whitman
Founder at Curious Wave
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Whitman is a serial founder and scientist who builds personalization and content intelligence products for music, news, and creator platforms, currently leading Curious Wave and shore pine sound systems from New York. He previously served as Chief Scientist at CNN after they acquired his startup Canopy, and earlier co-founded The Echo Nest, which powered music discovery across major services before being acquired by Spotify. With a PhD from MIT in machine listening and an MS in NLP from Columbia, he blends deep research in signal processing, recommendation, and language with hands-on product and API development. He has a track record of scaling research into production teams and systems—helping Spotify formalize music research—and advises companies on privacy-aware, explainable personalization. An unexpected detail: alongside enterprise work he builds open hardware and synth software for the maker music community, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor, product instincts, and creative engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Machine listening, PhD, Machine listening at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, English, BS, English at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Columbia University
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Github Skills (113)
synthesizer10
python10
fixed-point10
micropython10
arduino-library10
multicast10
esp3210
embedded10
udp10
espressif10
music10
synth10
teensy10
microcontroller10
hardware10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
shorepine/tulipcc
May 2022 - Mar 2023
The Tulip Creative Computer and AMYboard - portable Python synthesizers
Contributions:23 releases, 5 reviews, 271 commits in 9 months
pythonesp32hardwareportablemicropython
bwhitman/loracamera
Jul 2020 - Oct 2020
transmit sound & image over a lora link
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
lora
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