David Hilowitz
Company Owner & Sample Developer at Surge Software
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Hilowitz is a versatile software architect and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building high-performance web and native applications, audio instruments, and multimedia tools. As founder and owner of Decent Samples and previous senior roles, he combines deep systems thinking (cloud, microservices, CI/CD) with hands-on audio engineering—having recorded samples, coded KSP instruments, and implemented a cross-platform virtual analog synth in C++/JUCE. He has shipped HIPAA-compliant healthcare services, map-based mobile workforce platforms, and real-time videoconferencing apps, demonstrating expertise across backend APIs, mobile, and low-latency media. Comfortable leading architecture and being the sole implementer, he also brings creative product instincts from music and game development, including an App Store release and an open-source Python spin on his GridInstrument tool. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a track record of turning complex UX and audio requirements into polished, cross-platform products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, BA at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, French
Github Skills (149)
cpp10
javascript10
shortcode10
wordpress10
mobile-application10
audio10
html10
eloquent10
vst10
taxonomies10
php-application10
juce10
lv210
buffer10
bootstrap10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dhilowitz/careers-crawler
Jan 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:268 commits in 2 years 4 months
learning-projecttechnologiesscrapeemployersstackoverflow
dhilowitz/SamplerBox
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 10 months
raspberry-pisamplerboxaudiosamplerraspberrypi
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