Hayden Bursk
Director Of Engineering at Cantina Labs
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHayden Bursk is a Director of Engineering and seasoned software leader with 15 years building cross-platform audio and music technology products and seven years scaling and mentoring high-performing distributed teams. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C++, iOS, JUCE, and DSP with a player-coach leadership style that moves fluidly between architecture, code reviews, and people development. At Splice he led major DAW integrations and a shared audio engine spanning plugins, mobile, desktop, web, and cloud, improving delivery reliability and developer velocity. Founder of boutique audio tool companies including Shout Audio and Drummerheads, he brings entrepreneurial product instincts and production-grade release experience alongside enterprise engineering rigor. Based in Los Angeles, he emphasizes psychological safety, clear ownership, and measurable impact to help teams deliver sustainable, well-tested systems. A Stanford MA/MST in Music, Science & Technology and a background in electrical engineering give him a rare blend of signal-level technical depth and product-focused systems thinking.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Tufts UniversityMA/MST, Music Science Technology, MA/MST, Music Science Technology at Stanford University
Github Skills (82)
aif10
windows10
audio-formats10
file-format10
cpp10
audio-effect10
linux10
audio10
clap10
application-framework10
auv310
wav10
vst10
juce10
android10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hbursk/HISE
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 22 branches in 2 years 7 months
hbursk/Granular-Audio-Destroyer
Dec 2010 - Oct 2011
Contributions:34 commits in 10 months
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