Daniel Manesh
PHD Student at Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Manesh is a PhD student in computer science at Virginia Tech with 14 years of software engineering experience spanning industry and research, including a multi-year tenure at Google and a research internship at Postman. He blends rigorous academic training from MIT (BS, MEng) with practical systems and back-end development expertise, contributing to production-scale projects and open-source tooling. Notably, he has contributed to the widely used music21 computational musicology toolkit, improving pitch handling, repeat-finding, and MusicXML robustness—evidence of his ability to bridge domain-specific research and resilient engineering. Based in Blacksburg, Virginia, Daniel focuses on research-driven software solutions that translate complex algorithms into dependable, well-tested code.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (9)
computer-music10
music-theory10
python10
musicxml9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
unit-testing7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cuthbertLab/music21
May 2012 - Aug 2012
music21 is a Toolkit for Computational Musicology
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily worked on the `music21` library, a toolkit for computational musicology. Their contributions included resolving conflicts in the `pitch.py` file, adding functionality to the `repeat` module (specifically, the `RepeatFinder` object), and fixing exceptions within the `musicxml` module. They also implemented and tested various features within the `repeat` module.
dtwpythonmusicologymusic21music
maneshd/maneshd.github.io
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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