Simon Waloschek
Chief Technology Officer at Clefer
Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Waloschek is a CTO and machine learning researcher with two decades of software development experience and over a decade focused on production ML and music information retrieval. He builds scalable music-AI systems—from fast performance-to-score alignment pipelines to interactive digital score UIs—translating research prototypes into robust, user-centered products. His background combines a PhD in MIR, embedded and safety-critical systems experience, and product-facing UX work, enabling him to bridge algorithmic research, backend architecture, and musician-focused usability. As a consultant and R&D engineer he has advised startups and contributed to open standards and tools (e.g., MEI, Verovio, music21), bringing research-grade models into real products. Based in Detmold, Germany, he is an obsessive learner who couples creative practice in music, design, and photography with hands-on technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Paderborn UniversityDoktor (Ph.D.) Music Information Retrieval, Doktor (Ph.D.) Music Information Retrieval at Hochschule für Musik DetmoldMaster of Arts Media Production, Master of Arts Media Production at OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts
English, Polish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
svg10
typesetting10
api10
music-information-retrieval10
nodejs10
cms10
python10
drawer10
music-notation10
dtw10
midi10
audio10
music10
markup10
mysql10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sonovice/espuino-ui
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:131 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
sonovice/smude
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Sheet music dewarping, primarily for pictures taken with smartphones.
Contributions:14 commits, 3 PRs, 20 pushes in 6 months
picturessheetdewarpingsheet-musicmusic
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