Michael Mulshine
Software Engineer at ccrma
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Mulshine is a software engineer and researcher who blends a decade of experience in music technology, embedded systems, and interactive instrument design with a Ph.D. from Stanford CCRMA. His work spans academic research and hands-on product development—from directing the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and building the bitKlavier digital instrument to consulting on audio products—demonstrating fluency across firmware, DSP, and creative software. Based in Palo Alto, he routinely bridges human-centered musical interfaces and rigorous computational methods, often producing playful, surprising interactions that feel "like a piano" yet behave like software. He pairs deep technical chops in MCU programming and music acoustics with a musician’s sensibility, making him adept at translating artistic goals into robust, real-world systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics at Stanford UniversityBachelor of Arts (AB), Music and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (AB), Music and Computer Science at Princeton University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (36)
piano9
sound-synthesis9
juce9
audio9
chuck9
eagle9
audio-effect9
pitch-detection9
music-composition8
synth8
music8
midi8
audiounit8
synthesis8
vst8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mulshine/OOPS
Apr 2017 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 4 years
c-librarysemisynthesisaudioaudio-synthesis
ccrma/webchuck
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
ChucK on the Web
Contributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 3 months
javascriptchuckemscriptenwebassemblywebaudio
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