My most recent full time role was for Mimi Hearing Technologies as an Audio Research Engineer / Python Developer. Since February 2021 I have been freelancing and working in the same role in a supporting capacity.
Our core tech is a medically certified hearing test, allowing for a scientifically informed and biologically inspired audio personalization solution. Our processing is dynamic, complex and offers a truly personal solution. All of this is rolled into a SDK with the aim of being integrated easily by external partners. Our processing is also capable of running on a multitude of common industry standard chipsets and devices.
My role as an Audio Engineer transitions the product and research teams, primarily concerning the sonic experience given to the end user of our technology (their personalized sound).
Through working in a dynamic start-up environment I was able to further my knowledge in:
- Working in cross-functional scrum teams:
- Using both Agile & Kanban frameworks
- Was able to improve my skills as a developer:
- Code-review, automated CICD testing and deployment (CircleCI) and QA
- Python skills built and improved
- Was able to learn a functioning understanding of
C++, bash, lua & yaml
- Helped develop and QA new hearing testing methodologies
- Real-time audio processing
- Porting to different chip-sets
- Database management and interaction (
MongoDB, PyMongo, Postgres, SQL) - The interaction between different business areas and their interaction:
- Was able to see product ideas from initial design and research ideas come to fruition in a product.
- For example: design, development, partner integrations & BizDev/Marketing
