Marcus Ficner
Software Engineer, Audio & Music Apps at Apple
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcus Ficner is a senior software engineer based in Hamburg with 14 years of experience building mobile and audio-focused applications, currently contributing to Apple's Audio & Music Apps. He is fluent in Swift and the C family, with deep expertise in iOS, RxSwift, CoreAudio, and cross-disciplinary skills in Node.js and frontend JavaScript/TypeScript. Marcus combines hands-on low-level audio engineering and studio experience with modern app architecture (MVC/MVVM, TDD, clean code), having led projects for major brands like Deutsche Telekom, Grohe, and Postbank as a freelancer and at Teufel and GrandCentrix. Known for motion-aware UI design and an interest in machine learning, he mentors teams and shapes technical strategy while still shipping polished consumer-facing features. A musician and former assistant audio engineer, he brings rare product intuition at the intersection of sound, UX, and robust mobile engineering.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Audio Engineer Diploma, Audio Engineering, Audio Engineer Diploma, Audio Engineering at SAE Institute CologneB. Eng., Information technology, computer science, B. Eng., Information technology, computer science at University of Applied Sciences and Arts DortmundJitter workshop
German, English, Polish
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Github Skills (126)
subscriber10
audiokit10
midi9
audio9
music9
swift9
tuner9
debug9
things9
combine9
publisher9
pitch-detection9
functional-reactive-programming8
location8
kickstarter8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
marcusficner/ImageList
Apr 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
marcusficner/p5js-particle-generator
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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