Cecill Etheredge
Co-Founder, Technical Director at Freelance
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolCecill Etheredge is a serial founder and technical director with 17 years of hands-on experience building deep-technology products across audio, games, medical simulation, and smart hardware from Utrecht and Berlin. As co-founder of KoalaDSP and Snowcrash, and a key player in six+ European startups, she blends embedded systems and GPU expertise with practical productization—helping startups ship synths, plugins, soft-body physics, and illuminated packaging. She moves fluidly between firmware, DSP, GPU graphics/physics and SaaS backends, and has a long-running history in open-source game tooling dating back to co-founding Multi Theft Auto. A trained embedded systems engineer (MSc, Twente) who also composes retro and ambient game soundtracks, she brings a maker’s pragmatism and creative sensibility to technically risky projects. Notably, her work often turns research prototypes into market-ready devices and plugins, bridging lab-grade algorithms with commercial constraints.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Embedded Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Embedded Systems at Universiteit Twente / Twente University
English, Chinese, Dutch, German
Github Skills (145)
javascript10
hsm10
json10
amd10
softhsm10
webpack10
gstreamer9
compiler9
sdl9
bundler9
plugin9
es6-modules9
css9
on-demand9
typescript9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ijsf/bitlog.it
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Static blog
Contributions:51 commits, 1 PR, 80 pushes in 1 month
ijsf/wer.si
Dec 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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