Paul Mclean
CEO - Chief Everything Officer at Plausible Software, Inc.
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Mclean is a seasoned software engineer and founder with over three decades of experience and 12 years in focused Android, Windows, and Mac application development. As CEO of Plausible Software he builds high-performance Android audio apps and technologies, blending hands-on engineering with product leadership. Previously an Android Media engineer at Google, he contributed to notable open-source work on Oboe, a prominent C++ library for low-latency Android audio, and created the DrumThumper sample showcasing practical audio-processing techniques. His background in digital signal processing and early career roles at Ensoniq and Quark underpin a deep expertise in digital audio, synthesis, and multimedia systems. Based in Denver, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a rare combination of system-level audio engineering and cross-platform application development.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDigital Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing at Penn State University
Github Skills (4)
cprogramming-language10
audio-processing10
c-language10
android10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/oboe
Oct 2019 - May 2021
Oboe is a C++ library that makes it easy to build high-performance audio apps on Android.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 71 commits, 62 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the audio processing library "Oboe," focusing on improving its functionality and usability. Their work included fixing bugs related to buffer sizes and unsupported attributes in various audio stream implementations (AAudio and OpenSLES). They also developed a sample application, DrumThumper, demonstrating the use of Oboe for audio playback with stereo and gain/pan controls.
oboecppc-libraryandroidaudio
CyanogenMod/android_hardware_libhardware
Dec 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:60 commits in 2 years 6 months
androidhal
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