Nicholas Appleton
Senior Staff Engineer at Dolby
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Appleton is a Senior Staff Engineer in Sydney with 15 years’ experience designing and optimising audio signal-processing systems for consumer electronics, currently leading technical efforts at Dolby. He specialises in efficient, low-level implementations—vectorised FFTs (SSE/NEON), fixed-point conversions, multirate resamplers and modulated convolution engines—across x86 and ARM targets, and routinely bridges algorithm design with production-ready C/C++ code and tooling. Nicholas mentors and builds team capability in signal processing and critical thinking, provides cross-geography technical leadership, and creates test metrics and tools to validate perceptual audio quality. He also teaches and tutors university electrical engineering labs, and writes a technical blog on mathematics, signal processing and electronics, reflecting a blend of deep theory and hands-on engineering not always visible in product roles.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney
Github Skills (28)
svn10
portaudio10
wasapi10
directsound10
asynchronous9
trunk9
asio9
pulseaudio9
audio9
compiler8
backend8
toolchain8
windows8
networking8
interpreter8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
templeblock/opendiapason
Feb 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:199 commits in 1 year 2 months
modellingpipesamplingmachine-learning
nickappleton/cop
Feb 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:91 commits, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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