Alex Olsen
Staff Software Engineer at Vault.fm
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Olsen is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Boston with nine years of experience and a unique fusion of TypeScript/React expertise and audio tooling. He builds consumer software around MIDI, Web Audio, and hardware device emulation, designing and maintaining performance-critical MIDI data processing libraries used in studios and on stage. As an active open-source maintainer since 2018, he contributes DSP and MIDI processing apps that power real-time audio workflows. His leadership spans both engineering and digital infrastructure, having led a national nonprofit’s digital systems and collaborating with creators as a freelance musician leveraging Ableton, sound design, and production. He holds a Level 3 Certificate in Jazz Piano from the New England Conservatory and a BM in Music Business from Berklee College of Music, reflecting a rare blend of artistic training and software acumen, and currently applies these skills as Senior Frontend Engineer at Ikigai.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Level 3 Certificate, Honors, Jazz Piano, Level 3 Certificate, Honors, Jazz Piano at New England Conservatory of MusicBM - Music Business, Business Administration and Management, General, BM - Music Business, Business Administration and Management, General at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (108)
resample10
javascript10
midi10
music10
scalable10
electron10
foundation10
typescript10
eslint10
nodejs10
dmx51210
hardware10
webpack10
midi-controller10
web-audio-api10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aolsenjazz/silence-listener-node
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Pseudo AudioNode to notify when an audio stream becomes silent.
Contributions:41 commits, 16 PRs, 37 pushes in 4 months
audiostream-audionodejsstreamaudionode
aolsenjazz/feeder-node
Jan 2021 - Nov 2022
Feed mono or stereo audio data for playback. Ideal for real-time audio.
Contributions:34 commits, 10 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 10 months
realtimewebrtcplaybackstreamreal-time-audio
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.