Yvan Volochine
Founder & Principal Engineer at Trema Inc.
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolYvan Volochine is a founder and principal engineer with 16 years of hands-on experience building high-performance frontends, specializing in React, TypeScript, and modern web tooling. He consults with startups and agencies from Pasadena to deliver full-stack projects, porting production apps to Remix/SSR and building Next.js AWS/SST backends while improving time-to-market and reducing tech debt. As a coach and tech lead he emphasizes developer self-sufficiency, TDD, and developer experience—having led a 7-person frontend rebuild that cut build and load times by over 50%. An active open-source contributor to the SuperCollider ecosystem, he has implemented audio synthesis primitives and editor ergonomics, hinting at a creative side as a musician and performer. Practical, architecture-minded, and product-focused, he blends engineering craft with advisory impact to raise product quality and team velocity.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics at University of Toulouse II Le MirailBachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics at Universite Toulouse II le Mirail
English, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (14)
sounds10
audio10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
computer-music5
programming-language5
synthesis4
algorithm4
sc4
music-composition4
composition4
live-coding4
music4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
supercollider/sc3-plugins
Apr 2013 - Jun 2019
Community plugins for SuperCollider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 11 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yvan primarily contributed to the SuperCollider plugins repository by adding a new audio synthesis UGen, FM7, and adapting it to the existing plugin interface. Their work involved implementing FM7, a frequency modulation synthesis unit, and ensuring it functioned correctly within the SuperCollider environment. They also addressed compatibility issues by adapting the FM7 UGen to the new plugin interface, which improved the integration and usability of the plugin. The user included code changes to prevent errors because of non-declared 'printf'.
audio-enginecomputer-musicugenssound-effectsaudio
supercollider/supercollider
Feb 2013 - Jul 2021
An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 86 commits, 62 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yvan primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the SuperCollider IDE (SCIDE) interface. Their work involved implementing auto-pairing for parentheses, brackets, and quotes. They also addressed usability issues by disabling completion menu actions with arrow keys. Furthermore, the user enhanced the editor with features like matching token insertion and included the parenthesis in the regionAroundCursor() method.
electronic-musicmidisynthesisc-plus-plussequencer
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