Stefano Zambon
Chief Technology Officer at Elk
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolStefano Zambon is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11+ years of hands-on experience building embedded audio systems and smart musical instruments from prototype to product. Based in Stockholm, he heads Elk’s technical strategy while still writing C++ audio code, architecting embedded Linux/Xenomai systems, and prototyping DSP and sound-processing algorithms. His background spans academic research and industry R&D—developing low-latency gesture recognition, physical-model piano synthesis, and production-ready embedded audio on ARM/DSP platforms. He blends deep signal-processing expertise with agile product leadership, having turned PhD-level research into commercial features like the Physis-based piano and the Sensus Guitar. Known for wearing multiple hats, Stefano routinely moves between system architecture, algorithm design, and practical embedded implementation, keeping one foot in code even while steering teams and business planning.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Scienze informatiche, 110/110 cum laude, Laurea triennale in Scienze e Tecnologie Informatiche, Scienze informatiche, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Verona
Italian, English
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Github Skills (69)
cpp10
audio-effect10
linux10
clap10
audio10
application-framework10
auv310
pulse10
vst10
juce10
pulseaudio10
audiounit10
plug10
plugin10
datachannel10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stez-mind/JUCE
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
cppc-plus-plusframeworkc-frameworkcross-platform
elk-audio/mda-vst3
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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