Chris Horvath
Co-Founder, Head Of Strategy
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Horvath is a music and technology entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building partnerships, products, and platforms across streaming, radio, and creator ecosystems. As Co-Founder and Head of Strategy at Gnosis and former Head of Partner Relations at Super Hi-Fi, he has led global integrations and content operations for major broadcasters and digital services, managing thousands of audio assets and cross-functional delivery. Previously he scaled label and artist programs at Amazon Music and helped grow Flipagram’s music footprint to support hundreds of millions of creators, blending data-driven marketing with hands-on music programming. Technically minded and creative, he also contributes code to notable open-source projects like OpenEXR—where he fixed deep-image and naming bugs—reflecting a rare combination of audio product leadership and practical engineering skill. Based in Nashville, he leverages deep DSP, distribution, and platform experience to help artists, rights holders, and tech teams navigate the changing economics of music.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Television, Radio & Film, MS, Television, Radio & Film at S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse UniversityBA, Chemistry, BA, Chemistry at University of Miami
Hungarian, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr
Aug 2012 - Sep 2013
The OpenEXR project provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the motion picture industry.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the `DtexToExr` utility within the OpenEXR project. Their work involved modifying file names and content to align with EXR naming conventions, specifically transitioning from ODZ to EXR. They addressed multiple critical issues, including image flipping, transposition problems, and data window size inaccuracies. Furthermore, the user updated the code to reflect the correct deep opacity interpretation within the dtex samples.
professionalhdrstorageexrfile-format
blackencino/emerald
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
The Emerald Simulation Libraries by Christopher Jon Horvath
Contributions:7 releases, 70 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 3 months
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