Chikashi Miyama
Senior Software Engineer at Hochschule Für Musik Und Tanz Köln
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChikashi Miyama is a Senior Software Engineer and audio DSP specialist with 12 years of professional experience and a PhD in music, blending deep academic insight with product-grade engineering. He has led cross-platform C/C++ and Python development for industry-leading immersive audio platforms and shipped multiple commercial audio plugins and VR spatialization solutions while maintaining rigorous TDD and over 98% core test coverage. Experienced in managing CI/CD, dependency tooling (Conan, Azure DevOps), and performance benchmarking across Intel, AMD, and Apple Silicon, he bridges low-level DSP, UI prototyping, and production workflows. A long-time educator, he teaches Audio DSP and interactive media, translating research into practical tools like a JUCE-based UI designer and PureData DSP chain prototyping that empower non-developers to iterate independently. Based in Cologne, he combines a research background in electroacoustic composition with hands-on engineering to advance immersive audio monitoring and spatialization technologies.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MA Computer Music Music Composition Computer Graphics Software Development, MA Computer Music Music Composition Computer Graphics Software Development at Kunitachi College of MusicPh.D Music Composition Electroacoustic music Interface design, Ph.D Music Composition Electroacoustic music Interface design at University at BuffaloNachdiplom Electronic Music Interface Design Music Composition Multimedia Installation, Nachdiplom Electronic Music Interface Design Music Composition Multimedia Installation at Musik-Akademie Basel
English, Japanese, German
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Github Skills (35)
e-mail10
jetbrains9
academia9
ruby9
github8
puredata8
distortion7
realitykit6
openframeworks6
libpd6
swiftui6
attachment6
entities6
plugin6
conan6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SpatDIF/SpatDIFLib
Feb 2014 - Jan 2018
Contributions:267 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 3 years 11 months
RadicalProcess/uicore
Dec 2021 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 24 branches in 4 years 7 months
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