Mattijs Kneppers
Tech Principal Max For Live Devices at Ableton
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMattijs Kneppers is a tech principal specializing in Max for Live devices at Ableton, with 12+ years building tools for live shows, interactive installations and web apps. He combines deep audio-visual systems knowledge from roles at Cycling '74 and MediaMonks with hands-on product experience as co-founder of Showsync, creating synchronized show tooling. Comfortable across low-level media tech and modern WebGL/experiential R&D, he has repeatedly led teams to turn creative concepts into robust real-time systems. Based in Amsterdam, he blends electrical engineering roots with a mediatechnology background, which informs his pragmatic approach to both hardware-integrated and web-native solutions. Known for shipping production-ready devices and developer-friendly tools, he quietly bridges the gap between artists’ workflows and scalable engineering.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE Mediatechnology, BE Mediatechnology at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (Hogeschool Utrecht)Exact sciences, Exact sciences at Christelijk Lyceum Delft - GymnasiumElectrical engineering, Electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology
Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Italian
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Github Skills (90)
declarative10
javascript10
openframeworks10
typescript10
dts10
user-interface10
frontend10
react10
typescript-definitions9
qunit9
dom9
ableton-live9
audio8
bdd8
browser8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Ableton/maxdevtools
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 reviews, 59 PRs, 150 pushes in 1 year
MattijsKneppers/Cinder
Sep 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:30 pushes, 5 branches, 1 tag in 3 years 2 months
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