Curtis Elsasser
Founder And CEO at Xraymen.com
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCurtis Elsasser is a seasoned founder and software architect with over a decade of experience building high-performance systems ranging from HBO GO’s streaming and tooling ecosystem to real-time financial analytics and professional music sequencers. As Founder & CEO of Xraymen, he’s translating a long career in media, graphics and large-data tooling into a product that layers contextual information onto the physical world. He combines deep systems-level skills in C/C++, C#, and Node.js with modern web and cloud practices (MongoDB, AWS, Docker) to solve scaling, UX and data-visualization challenges. Curtis has a track record of shipping both wildly popular consumer-facing products and specialized control systems, and has improved creative workflows by orders of magnitude through targeted tooling. His background in music composition and pro-audio software informs a rare blend of technical rigor and creative sensibility that shows up in playful, well-crafted products. Based in New York, he self-identifies as READMEGUY on GitHub, reflecting a pragmatic, documentation-minded approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Music Theory and Composition, Music Theory and Composition at Berklee College of MusicB.A. Computer Science and Media Studies Computer Science and Media Studies, B.A. Computer Science and Media Studies Computer Science and Media Studies at University at BuffaloComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Miami
Github Skills (23)
biology10
robotics10
protocols10
science10
android-application8
piano7
development-environment7
music6
ide6
rstudio6
android5
kubernetes4
editor4
automation3
midi3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
celsasser/midi-file-io
Jan 2019 - Nov 2024
Reads, parses and writes MIDI (.mid) files and buffers
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 11 months
midibuffersmidaudio
celsasser/falign
May 2019 - Mar 2021
A format library capable of formatting and parsing whatever it may format
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
parsingformattingparser
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