Michael Hilgendorf
Rust Linux Programmer at Tangram
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hilgendorf is a Rust-focused Linux programmer with nine years of experience building low-level systems, currently developing next-generation build systems at Tangram. His background spans ECAD and IPC landpattern standards, analog electronics, DSP, embedded systems, and native pro-audio apps—skills he applies to both product work and open-source contributions like improving the Rust VST 2.4 API. He started in audio and signal processing (Shure, Ambidio) and transitioned into software-first roles (JITX), combining hardware intuition with safe, modern Rust patterns. Beyond work, he designs guitar pedals and produces electronic music, bringing practical audio engineering sensibilities to software design. Notably, he’s fixed subtle memory bugs and modernized event handling in widely used Rust audio tooling, showing a knack for reliability and low-level correctness.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering - Audio Focus, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering - Audio Focus at University of Miami
Github Skills (7)
memory-management10
rust10
vst10
api-design10
dspic9
dspace9
refactoring9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RustAudio/vst-rs
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
VST 2.4 API implementation in rust. Create plugins or hosts. Previously rust-vst on the RustDSP group.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Michael focused on implementing and improving the VST 2.4 API in Rust. Their work includes fixing a use-after-move bug, refactoring code, and replacing deprecated memory management techniques with more modern and safer alternatives. They also refactored event handling by introducing the `impl Trait` syntax.
apivstsvstrusthosts
RustAudio/vst3-sys
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
Raw Bindings to the VST3 API
Contributions:4 reviews, 96 commits, 39 PRs in 3 years 1 month
apivst3
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