Mitchell Mcdermott
Project Manager Product Developer at Common Good Technologies Consulting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Mcdermott is a product-minded project manager and audio technologist with 11 years of experience building interactive musical systems, accessible instruments, and benefits software. Trained at Berklee and with an MSc in Sound and Music Computing from Queen Mary, he blends DSP, real-time systems, and UX to prototype AI-driven musical experiences, spectral effects, and Bela-powered hardware. He’s shipped generative audio pipelines and DSP instruments for clients like BT and contributed research-grade experiments at Imperial College showing spatial audio-haptic feedback improves human-robot synchronization. At Common Good Technologies he translates complex policy into implementable requirements, improving data integrity across legacy benefits systems while bridging legal, technical, and operational teams. An unexpected strength is his cross-domain fluency—moving seamlessly between hands-on C++, Max/MSP, MATLAB and product coordination—which lets him democratize creative tools without losing sight of engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Electronic Production & Design, Music Technology, Composition, Sound Design, Software Design, Electronic Production & Design, Music Technology, Composition, Sound Design, Software Design at Berklee College of MusicMaster of Science - MS, Sound and Music Computing, Master of Science - MS, Sound and Music Computing at Queen Mary University of London
English, Spanish, Italian
Github Skills (8)
uid10
macos10
front-end-development10
python10
appkit10
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
user-interface9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jaredks/rumps
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Ridiculously Uncomplicated macOS Python Statusbar apps
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Mitchell focused on enhancing the functionality of the macOS status bar application, `rumps`. They implemented slider menu items, enabling dynamic adjustments within the application's interface. The user refined callback mechanisms to facilitate interaction with the sliders and other menu items, enhancing the overall user experience. Contributions also included setting dimensions for menu items and general bug fixes for the application.
statusbarmacospython
UQComputingSociety/uqcsbot-slack
Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
:mortar_board: UQCSbot: our friendly little Slack bot
Contributions:401 commits, 145 PRs, 84 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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