Ruurd Adema
Principal Developer at Source Elements
Gelderland, Netherlands
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SeniorRuurd Adema is a Principal Developer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, reliable real-time media systems using C++ and Rust, focused on networking, streaming, and cross-platform audio architecture. He designs and implements core infrastructure for professional audio workflows—authoring RAVENNA/AES67/ST2110/PTPv2/NMOS stacks (RAVENNAKIT) and shipping products like Mix to Mobile—so teams bring him in to de-risk migrations or resolve stability and performance bottlenecks. Comfortable shipping both embedded drivers and high-level plugins, he has delivered virtual audio drivers for macOS, DAW plugins (AU/VST3/AAX), and integrations for broadcast consoles. He pairs hands-on systems development with architectural coaching for engineering leaders, setting durable patterns rather than quick fixes. Based in Gelderland, Netherlands, he blends pro-audio field experience (live FOH and broadcast mixing) with deep protocol-level engineering—helpful when production constraints collide with protocol realities.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (100)
windows10
websocket10
cmake10
visual-studio10
asio10
cpp10
mobile-application10
audio10
uvw10
websocket-client10
boost10
vst10
http-server10
juce10
lv210
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ruurdadema/zg_choir
Sep 2021 - May 2026
Library for high-availability distributed computing, including a distributed handbell-choir demo app
Contributions:33 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 8 months
demo-appavailabilitydistributed-computingdistributed-systemscomputing
ruurdadema/build_tools
Feb 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:26 commits, 45 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
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