Nicholas Jillings
Senior Software Engineer at Cotality UK
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNicholas Jillings is a senior software engineer and PhD researcher with 11 years’ experience building web-native audio tools and scalable cloud systems, currently at Cotality UK and co-founder of Semantic Audio Labs. He designs and ships full-stack audio applications—from low-level C++/CUDA signal processing and VSTs to Typescript web DAWs and Python backends—bridging research-grade algorithms with production AWS/Azure deployments. His academic background in DSP and audiovisual communications informs practical innovations in intelligent mixing and real-time audio in constrained environments. Known for preferring to build new tooling rather than adapt existing solutions, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep systems skills and a knack for squeezing cutting-edge audio tech into the browser.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Audiovisual Communications Technologies/Technicians at Birmingham City UniversityMaster’s Degree, MSc Digital Signal Processing, First, Master’s Degree, MSc Digital Signal Processing, First at Queen Mary University of London
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Github Skills (54)
javascript10
perceptual10
mls10
evaluation10
feature-extraction10
mir10
music-information-retrieval10
audio10
web-audio-api10
api10
piano10
w3c8
modals8
widgets7
bootstrap7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nickjillings/JSAP
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
JavaScript Audio Plugin
Contributions:515 commits, 4 PRs, 423 pushes in 5 years 8 months
javascript-audiojavascriptaudio-pluginaudio
BrechtDeMan/WebAudioEvaluationTool
Mar 2015 - Mar 2021
A tool based on the HTML5 Web Audio API to perform perceptual audio evaluation tests locally or on remote machines over the web.
Contributions:2 releases, 1075 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 1 month
apimachinesperceptualjavascriptevaluation
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