Yvan Grabit
Engineering Manager at Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarYvan Grabit is an Engineering Manager based in Hamburg with 9 years of experience leading R&D and technical teams at Steinberg Media Technologies. He blends hands-on full-stack development with people leadership, having contributed significant fixes and modernizations to the widely used VSTGUI audio plugin UI toolkit. Comfortable across platform-specific challenges, his work shows deep familiarity with Win32 and Linux build quirks, text-editing internals, and preparing libraries for new VST releases. Colleagues rely on him to translate tricky compilation and UI bugs into maintainable, forward-compatible solutions while guiding teams toward shipping robust audio software.
9 years of coding experience
French, German, English
Github Skills (12)
uid10
c-language10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
windows8
vst7
t37
linux7
develop7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
steinbergmedia/vstgui
Feb 2017 - Nov 2022
A user interface toolkit mainly for audio plug-ins
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 78 commits, 5 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yvan primarily focused on fixing compilation issues and improving the VSTGUI library. Their contributions included addressing Linux-specific compilation errors, resolving issues related to text editing with functors, and fixing incorrect index handling in Win32 popup menus. Furthermore, the user made several code cleanups, improved the code readability by using "auto", and prepared the project for upcoming VST 3.6.9, indicating a good understanding of the VSTGUI framework and its related technologies.
audio-playeruser-interfaceclapaudiounitplug-ins
steinbergmedia/vst3_base
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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