Daniel Ray
Director Of Strategy
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Ray is a strategic leader in MusicTech with eight years of experience shaping product and corporate strategy as Director of Strategy at Muse Group and Head of Strategy for MuseScore and Ultimate Guitar. He combines a musician’s training from Juilliard and California State University, Fresno with a founder’s mindset, having launched and exited multiple digital ventures focused on collaborative music creation and marketing platforms. Daniel specializes in new product ideation, prototypes, M&A, technology licensing, and forging strategic partnerships that accelerate music-focused software ecosystems. His background running agencies and consultancies gives him a pragmatic edge in turning creative concepts into commercially viable products. Based in London, he actively seeks innovative MusicTech and audio projects—prefer conversations about product and creative partnerships rather than sales pitches. An uncommon strength is his ability to translate compositional thinking into product strategy, aligning musical intuition with measurable business outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Music Composition, Music Composition at The Juilliard SchoolMusic Education, Music Education at California State University, Fresno
English, Lithuanian, Russian
Github Skills (13)
musicxml10
cpp10
qt10
music-notation10
music10
python10
notation10
midi8
mp37
pdf7
audio7
cross-platform4
editor3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
musescore/mdl
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
MuseScore Drumline Extension
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
musicmusescore
danieljray/MuseScore
Apr 2018 - Jan 2019
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
reportspythonvisitmusicxmljavascript
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