Michael Klingbeil
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Klingbeil is a Principal Software Engineer based in New Haven with over a decade of professional experience and six years in senior roles at Amazon Web Services, where he leads architectural and delivery efforts. He combines deep systems and distributed-systems engineering with a background in unified communications, web commerce, and developer tooling from earlier startups and acquisitions. Trained as both a computer scientist and a composer (BA in CS and BM in Music from Oberlin; MM and DMA in Music Composition), he brings a rare blend of analytical rigor and creative problem-solving to complex technical challenges. Michael has shifted between academia and industry—teaching music technology at Yale while building production software—which informs his talent for communicating across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Colleagues would note his pattern of shipping end-to-end solutions, from client/server platforms to large-scale cloud services, and an inclination to apply musical structure to software design and systems thinking.
6 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
DMA, Music Composition, DMA, Music Composition at Columbia UniversityMM, Music Composition, MM, Music Composition at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Oberlin College
Github Skills (20)
recurrent-neural-networks10
audio10
codec10
amazon-chime10
compression10
noise-reduction10
webcam9
webassembly8
streaming8
rtp8
srtp8
voip8
webrtc8
ortc7
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xiph/webrtc-opus-ng
Nov 2023 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
xiph/rnnoise
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025
Recurrent neural network for audio noise reduction
Contributions:40 pushes, 16 branches, 3 tags in 11 months
audiorecurrent-neural-networksrnnnoise-reductionc
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