Hugh Rawlinson
Software Engineer at Cyanite
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugh Rawlinson is a software engineer with 14 years’ experience building scalable web platforms, developer-facing products, and audio-focused tooling. He has driven developer experience and advocacy at companies like Spotify, GitBook, and Twilio while also architecting JAMstack documentation solutions and content platforms at scale. A principal web developer and contributor to the popular meyda audio feature extraction library, he blends web engineering with music information retrieval and machine learning interests. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, Hugh has led technical ownership, on-call reliability, and cross-functional teams to deliver production systems. Based in Stony Stratford, he pairs academic training in Music Computing with hands-on open source work, often translating signal-processing ideas into practical JavaScript libraries.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at ABA - An IB World SchoolBA Music and Sonic Media, BA Music and Sonic Media at London South Bank UniversityBachelor’s Degree Music Computing, Bachelor’s Degree Music Computing at Goldsmiths, University of LondonJunior Certificate English Irish Maths Music Business Studies Materials Technology (Wood) History Geography etc, Junior Certificate English Irish Maths Music Business Studies Materials Technology (Wood) History Geography etc at Schull Community College
English, Irish, French, Swedish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
fftw10
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fft10
javascript10
web-audio-api10
spectrum10
spectra10
frequency-analysis10
spectral10
html9
css7
audio6
integer6
api6
spotify6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
meyda/meyda
Aug 2014 - Nov 2022
Audio feature extraction for JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 539 reviews, 555 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hugh primarily contributed to building a web-based audio feature extraction library. The user developed the core feature extraction functionality, initially implementing RMS calculations and later expanding to include spectral analysis features like spectral centroid, rolloff, and spectral flatness. The user also added support for multiple features and implemented an improved format for feature selection. The user also added styling to the index.html.
extractionfeature-extractionjavascriptaudioaudio-features
hughrawlinson/meyda-worklet
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
WIP: Meyda in an Audio Worklet
Contributions:1 review, 19 PRs, 22 pushes in 3 years 3 months
workletwipaudioweb-audio-libraryweb-audio
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