Tim Susa is a Berlin-based software consultant with 11 years of experience blending hands-on engineering and team leadership across consumer-facing media, embedded systems, and large-scale data products. He has led teams at Axel Springer, contributed senior engineering at Ströer, and now advises clients at TeamIT while continuing active open-source work—most recently improving Web MIDI tooling with backward-compatible features and browserless tests. Comfortable across embedded firmware to full-stack web, Tim emphasizes meaningful work, knowledge sharing, and continuously evolving his craft. Outside engineering he channels creativity into music production, DJing, and cooking, which informs a practical, user-centric approach to product design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing., Medientechnik, Dipl.-Ing., Medientechnik at Technische Universität Ilmenau
Tame the Web MIDI API. Send and receive MIDI messages with ease. Control instruments with user-friendly functions (playNote, sendPitchBend, etc.). React to MIDI input with simple event listeners (noteon, pitchbend, controlchange, etc.).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:14 commits, 10 PRs, 1 branch in 19 days
Contributions summary:Tim contributed to the `webmidi` repository, a project focused on simplifying the Web MIDI API. They implemented a new feature, adding a 'none' parameter to the `toMIDIChannels()` function and made backward compatibility fixes. They also rebuilt and recreated the documentation and updated the test suite to include browserless integration tests. These contributions demonstrate a focus on enhancing the core functionality and maintaining code quality.
Contributions:66 commits, 1 push in 4 years 7 months
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