Ryan Francesconi
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Francesconi is a multidisciplinary composer, musician, and seasoned software engineer with nine years of focused experience in macOS Swift development and a long history of audio software work dating back to the late 1990s. Based in Portland, he leads technology at Audio Design Desk, where he blends creative composition with engineering to ship tools that transform how sound and music are placed and manipulated in film and media. A core contributor to the prominent AudioKit open-source ecosystem, he has deep expertise in audio synthesis, signal processing, and practical UI integrations—adding features like tapered and skewed player controls that improve expressive audio playback. His career spans founding and building audio tools at Spongefork, engineering embedded and web audio systems, and composing and touring as a recording artist, reflecting rare fluency across art, product, and code. Known for turning musical intuition into robust software, he also experiments with ideas that connect composition to nontraditional mediums like cycling and route-based work.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Fine Arts - MFA Interactive Media, Master of Fine Arts - MFA Interactive Media at California Institute of the Arts
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Github Skills (22)
ios10
synthesizer10
signal-processing10
synthesis10
audio-processing10
digital-signal-processing10
audio10
synthesize10
avfoundation10
sound-processing10
sound-synthesis10
swift10
audiokit10
synth10
user-interface9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AudioKit/AudioKit
Mar 2020 - Aug 2021
Audio synthesis, processing, & analysis platform for iOS, macOS and tvOS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Audio Engineer
Back-end Developer & Audio EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 294 commits, 185 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing audio processing and synthesis capabilities, as evidenced by commits related to updating and integrating "Taper" functionalities within the AudioKit framework. Their contributions involved modifications to the `AKAbstractPlayer` and `AKFader` classes, alongside the creation and adjustment of parameters for precise audio signal control. Furthermore, the user worked on adding "Skew" capabilities to the AKPlayer, demonstrating an understanding of audio signal manipulation techniques.
swift-playgroundsapplemusicmidisynthesisios
AudioKit/Cookbook
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the AudioKit Cookbook examples. Their contributions involved modifying existing recipes to allow for optional audio engine inputs and incorporating AudioPlayer2. Key changes included adjustments to various recipe files (Tuner, Recorder, AmplitudeEnvelope, etc.) to integrate the updated audio player and related controls. These changes aimed at improving the flexibility and usability of the audio examples within the AudioKit framework.
audiokittunercanonicalaudio
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