Peter Nyboer
Product Director at Buchla USA
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Nyboer is a product director and hardware-software strategist with 13+ years of experience designing and launching innovative music-making instruments and embedded devices. He co-founded Livid Instruments and has steered product strategy, design direction, firmware/software development, and artist relations across roles at Sensel, Next Thing Co., and Buchla USA. Comfortable from ideation through production and go-to-market, he combines technical depth (embedded Linux, APIs, audio tech) with marketing, documentation, and community-building to turn niche hardware into sustainable products. He’s known for creative sound design and novel interaction ideas—whether prototyping voice controls on embedded boards or crafting downloadable sound templates—and for gracefully managing product sunsets when markets shift. Based in San Jose, he leverages a broad industry network and a background in math, physics, and electronic music to bridge art and engineering.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
SHHSUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (12)
bitwig10
ableton-live9
azerothcore9
user-manual9
python-scripts7
rack7
management6
php6
python5
nodejs2
music2
midi2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
LividInstruments/ReasonRemoteScripts
Jun 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:73 commits, 18 pushes in 2 years 1 month
LividInstruments/Reason_RE_Remote_Templates
Jun 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
extensionsrack
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