Marcus Tomlinson
Technical Lead at Image-Line | Makers of FL Studio
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMarcus Tomlinson is a Technical Lead based in Edinburgh with 12 years of hands-on experience building high-performance C++ systems for desktop, audio, and embedded domains. He has driven desktop integrations at Canonical (including Flutter on Linux and Ubuntu Desktop tooling), led cross-platform DSP and recorder development at Recordsure, and now guides core engineering at Image-Line, makers of FL Studio. Marcus combines low-level audio expertise—evidenced by contributions improving the WASAPI backend of the widely used RtAudio library—with proven leadership in shipping complex products, code quality practices, and developer tooling. He has a track record of architecting performant data-flow frameworks, real-time audio engines and platform bindings, and is comfortable moving between C/C++, C#, Objective‑C and higher-level tooling. A published author and hobbyist music maker, he brings a rare mix of audio-domain passion and production-grade engineering discipline.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
audio10
audio-processing10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
wasapi10
polymorphism6
constructor6
parent-child6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
thestk/rtaudio
Apr 2014 - Jul 2022
A set of C++ classes that provide a common API for realtime audio input/output across Linux (native ALSA, JACK, PulseAudio and OSS), Macintosh OS X (CoreAudio and JACK), and Windows (DirectSound, ASIO, and WASAPI) operating systems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 27 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Marcus primarily contributed to the WASAPI implementation of the RtAudio library, which provides a common API for real-time audio I/O. Their work focused on improving the WASAPI backend, including implementing support for different sample rates, fixing a shutdown crash, and optimizing the sample rate conversion process. Further contributions include refactoring and debugging this specific audio interface.
realtimeoperating-systemsrealtime-audioalsamacintosh
cross-platform/c-on-air
Apr 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
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