Nathan Turczan
Founder & Product Designer at Scale Navigator LLC
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Turczan is a founder, product designer, and product manager with 8+ years building music software and immersive audio systems from prototype to cross-platform release. He designed and shipped Scale Navigator across web, mobile, desktop and DAW plugin formats, combining deep expertise in MIDI, real-time audio, music theory, and instrument design with full-stack development (React/TypeScript, JUCE/C++). Nathan has led IoT and smart-home product initiatives—integrating Crestron and Q-Sys systems and architecting wellness and senior-care platforms—while running product strategy, agile teams, and QA. As a composer and sound designer he’s contributed to projects with Sia/David OReilly, iHeartRadio, and immersive installations, and publishes research (NIME 2019) on algorithmic and generative music using SuperCollider and Max/MSP. He teaches and mentors (CalArts) and uniquely bridges creative composition with rigorous engineering, shipping both user-facing apps and low-latency audio tools. Based in Los Angeles, he combines entrepreneurial ownership with a rare mix of sonic artistry and systems-level technical delivery.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Music Technology, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Music Technology at California Institute of the ArtsUniversity of California Santa CruzTEFL Certification, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor, TEFL Certification, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor at Oxford Seminars
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Github Skills (35)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nathanturczan/sample-laboratory
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
nathanturczan/nathanturczan.github.io
Oct 2018 - Apr 2024
Nathan Turczan | Portfolio Website
Contributions:396 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
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