Paul Chana
Senior Vice President Of Software Engineering at elf audio
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorPaul Chana is a seasoned software engineering leader with a decade-plus of experience shaping music technology from plugin pioneers to modern hardware-software products. Currently Senior VP of Software Engineering at elf audio and formerly Technical Lead and Lead Desktop Developer at Focusrite, he has led cross-platform teams delivering large-scale web-backed audio applications and innovative controllers like the Roli blocs and Seaboards. A C++ purist who comfortably switches between JS, Kotlin and Java, Paul combines deep systems-level expertise with pragmatic full‑stack delivery. Based in London, he’s known for moving fast in music tech startups while maintaining polish across hardware, desktop and web ecosystems — and he’s equally likely to be found tuning zsh on his Mac as optimizing audio DSP.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
audio9
testing8
android8
opengl8
desktop7
cross-platform7
ios7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PaulChana/cheat-sheets
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
FocusriteGroup/JUCE
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
The JUCE cross-platform C++ framework
Contributions:11 PRs, 20 pushes, 18 branches in 3 years 9 months
cppc-plus-plusframeworkc-frameworkcross-platform
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