Stephen Hensley
Product Designer at 2hp
Ludlow, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hensley is a product designer and electronic musician with 11 years of experience blending sound design, modular synthesis, and interactive installations with embedded systems engineering. Grounded in a Berklee education, he pairs artistic practice with hands-on firmware and DSP work—contributing to the Daisy audio platform by porting examples, implementing QSPI flash drivers, and extending a C++ DSP library. Comfortable in C, Java, and Objective-C and conversant in Swift, C++, and JavaScript, he bridges hardware, low-level audio code, and creative tools like CSound, Max, and PureData. At 2hp he applies this hybrid skill set to product design, shipping tactile audio hardware informed by real-world performance and studio use. Notably, his open-source contributions show a knack for making complex audio APIs accessible across multiple hardware targets. He combines a musician’s ear with embedded-systems rigor to deliver expressive, reliable audio products and installations.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electronic Production and Design, Bachelor's degree, Electronic Production and Design at Berklee College of MusicHigh School Diploma, General Studies, High School Diploma, General Studies at Ludlow Senior High School
English
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
dspic10
abstraction-layer10
spi10
audio10
sys10
embedded10
stm10
cprogramming-language10
dspace10
hal10
apim9
hardware9
c119
api9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
electro-smith/DaisySP
Mar 2020 - Sep 2022
A Powerful DSP Library in C++
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 16 reviews, 167 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to the development of the `daisysp` library. Their commits focused on modifying and updating example code to work with a new seed API. The user also added examples related to audio processing, specifically with the use of Faust, and built the supporting documentation. These contributions suggest a focus on extending and adapting the core library for audio DSP development.
dsp-librarysynthesizerc-plus-plussynthaudiounit
electro-smith/libDaisy
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Hardware Library for the Daisy Audio Platform
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 80 reviews, 397 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen focused on implementing and testing QSPI (Quad SPI) flash memory drivers, including initialization, erase, and write functions. They updated the drivers to get them working, and added a function to "jump to QSPI". The user also integrated audio-related components, specifically adding the SAI (Serial Audio Interface) driver. This work involved direct interaction with hardware, likely for the Daisy audio platform.
stm32midiaudiodaisyhardware
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