Matthew Hosack

Software Engineer

Summary

Matt hails from San Francisco. Before starting at Ableton, he worked for Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco as a software engineer. While his work focuses on music and audio technology, and engineering systems, his non-work interests range widely, everything from metal guitar, homebrewing, beach volleyball and indoor basketball.

Experience

12/2020 - Present

Ableton

Software Engineer

Architected, wrote, deployed, and supported a custom Continuous Integration system enabling sound designers to build content for packs, perform static analysis on devices, and automatically deploy content to Live users. I also built and deployed various internal tools for content discovery.

  • Python
  • Go
  • Flask
  • Celery
  • Svelte
09/2013 - Present

Dolby Laboratories

Senior Software Engineer

As a senior software engineer I lead projects delivering embedded-C SDKs for partners like Apple and Netflix to implement professional-grade Dolby audio technologies into their broadcast systems.

  • C
  • Python
  • Audio Compression
  • Audio Codecs
  • Audio DSP
01/2011 - 05/2013

THX Ltd.

Systems Engineer

After an internship I was brought on fulltime. My responsibilities revolved around testing of home theater equipment, outfitting Lincoln vehicles with test equipment, and designing mock iOS and networked audio video receiver prototypes with the R&D team.

Education

Sonoma State University

07/2005 - 05/2011

Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering

Sonoma State University

07/2005 - 05/2011

Bachelor of Arts Music: Jazz Studies

References

— Adam Mannegren, Software Engineer / Product Owner @ Ableton