Karl Hiner
Software Engineer - XR Audio at Meta
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKarl Hiner is a software engineer with 14 years of experience who specializes in real-time audiovisual systems, audio DSP, and immersive XR experiences, now building XR audio at Meta. He combines deep full-stack skills—TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, C++, React—with research-grade expertise from a Master's in Computational Sciences and Engineering, applying ML and physically-based simulation to media generation. Karl has led major rewrites and cross-portal features at Axiom, shipped payment and fraud-detection systems at Cozy, and prototyped novel time-series and visualization tooling at New Relic. His independent work includes a sample-based Android music app and a JUCE-based node DAW, showing a rare blend of low-level audio engineering and web-scale product delivery. Based in Seattle, he’s as comfortable optimizing audio pipelines and DSP as he is architecting scalable backend services that reduce operational overhead.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Sound Arts, Sound Arts at Minneapolis Community and Technical CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Portland Community CollegeBachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.82 GPA, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 3.82 GPA at Portland State UniversityMaster's, Computational Sciences and Engineering, 3.90 GPA, Master's, Computational Sciences and Engineering, 3.90 GPA at Georgia Institute of TechnologyNormandale Community College
Github Skills (200)
json-parser10
puredata10
msgpack10
python10
synthesis10
free-library10
abstraction10
dialog10
file-dialog10
vim10
lua10
deep-learning10
gpu10
sound-synthesis10
bson10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
khiner/flowgrid
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1397 commits, 3094 pushes, 81 branches in 1 year 2 months
khiner/imgui
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
user-interfacedependenciescppgraphical-user-interfacegui
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