Etienne Noreau-hebert
Senior Engineer, Tech Lead at Woven by Toyota
Shibuya, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolEtienne Noreau-hebert is a senior engineer and tech lead with over eight years of professional experience building embedded Linux and DSP systems, now driving technical direction at Woven by Toyota. Previously chief engineer at KORG, he led development of firmware and custom oscillator/effect toolchains—contributing to the popular Korg logue-sdk and helping extend platform compatibility across devices like the minilogue xd. Comfortable bridging hardware, low-level software, and product design, he also brings entrepreneurial experience as a former CTO and co-founder of Liine. Based in Shibuya, Japan, he pairs a BSc/MSc in Computer Science with hands-on musical instrument design, giving him an unusual mix of technical rigor and creative systems thinking. Colleagues rely on him for meticulous cross-platform engineering and pragmatic leadership that turns experimental DSP ideas into production-ready products.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc-MSc, Computer Science, BSc-MSc, Computer Science at Université de MontréalFine Arts Core EducationDEC, Pure and Applied Sciences, DEC, Pure and Applied Sciences at Maisonneuve College
English, French, Japanese, Spanish, German
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
c-language10
audio-processing10
api10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
apidoc10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
git8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
korginc/logue-sdk
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
This repository contains all the files and tools needed to build custom oscillators and effects for the prologue synthesizer.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 release, 207 commits, 18 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Etienne appears to be involved in the development of custom oscillators and effects for the Korg prologue synthesizer. Their commits include the addition of new platforms, such as the minilogue xd, and the modification of existing code for different platforms, suggesting a focus on cross-platform compatibility. The user has also corrected code typos and updated links to external command line tools, demonstrating their attention to detail and involvement in multiple aspects of the project's build process.
bare-metalprologuesynthesizeroscillatorsmidi
korginc/nts-1-customizations
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 143 commits, 13 pushes in 1 month
ntsschematiccustomizationshardwarents-1
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