Christopher Poovey
Acoustics Software Engineer (Contractor With Volt) at Apple
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Poovey is an acoustics software engineer and composer with nine years of experience building spatial audio and room-acoustics prototypes for research and product integration at Meta Reality Labs and Apple. Trained as a music composition scholar (PhD/MMA) and experienced as a visiting professor, he bridges artistic practice and technical engineering to create tools and demos that serve both researchers and creative practitioners. His work spans real-time mixed-reality audio, advanced spatialization algorithms, and artist-facing software, with a background in electroacoustic composition and game scoring. Known for translating complex acoustic theory into practical prototypes, he often demonstrates novel audio techniques that accelerate product pipelines while retaining creative nuance.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Music Comopsition, Bachelor’s Degree Music Comopsition at Indiana University BloomingtonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Music Composition, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Music Composition at University of North Texas
English
Github Skills (20)
mixing9
midi8
csound7
sequencer7
audio7
music7
osc6
computer-music5
node-graph5
scoring5
qt4
object-model4
interactive4
react4
conductor3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cemistaff/MEIT-Diffusion-System
Sep 2018 - May 2022
Mixing desk used to diffuse sound in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater at UNT
Contributions:95 commits, 81 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 8 months
mixingdeskaudiotheaterdiffuse
New-Confusion/new-confusion
Nov 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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