Jay Vaughan
Software Analyst at Kontron Transportation
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolJay Vaughan is a seasoned embedded software engineer and founder with over a decade of experience building firmware, embedded Linux systems, and cross-platform developer tooling for hardware-focused products. Currently a Software Analyst at Kontron Transportation, he previously led firmware and product engineering at Austrian Audio and designed high-performance embedded firmware for Grabner Instruments. Jay has founded multiple ventures (Primitur, HiQ dynLab, Primitur Music Technology) and shipped commercial products ranging from audio hardware and iOS apps to industrial control systems and a production treadmill, demonstrating both technical depth and product sense. His background spans low-level systems work (kernel and filesystem components) through release engineering and team leadership across Europe. Comfortable across C/C++, embedded Linux, CANopen and mobile ecosystems, he brings a pragmatic maker’s mindset tempered by long-term systems thinking. An inclination toward creative framing—“the machine as a tool of the spirit”—hints at an engineer who blends technical rigor with curiosity for novel user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BCGS
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
cocoa-touch6
macos6
lua6
android6
iphone6
css6
coronasdk6
game-engine6
firmware5
synthesizer1
modular1
scriptable1
music1
sequencer1
midi1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
magicshifter/MS3000-Firmware
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
This is the home of the onboard Firmware of the MagicShifter3000 light synthesiser.
Contributions:21 commits in 1 year 3 months
firmware
kallaballa/MidiPatch
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
MidiPatch is a scriptable and modular real-time software synthesizer using the PatchScript API
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
apisynthesizerscriptablemidicomputer-music
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