Summary
Greg Surges is a Principal Firmware Engineer with 13 years of experience building firmware, DSP algorithms, and musical instruments firmware, currently leading firmware work at Moog Music. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music from UC San Diego and blends deep academic research—award-winning work on generative audio systems—with pragmatic product engineering for devices like Moog One. His background spans teaching, research, and entrepreneurship, from lecturing in music departments to shipping commercial hardware and successful Kickstarter-backed musical interfaces. Greg focuses on generative music, novel DSP, and the application of machine learning to self-reflective music systems, pairing creative practice with production-quality embedded development. He is notable for moving seamlessly between C/C++ real-time systems, algorithm design, and mentorship of engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Master of Music Music Composition, Master of Music Music Composition at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee