Bas De Haas
CEO, Founder, Music Informatics Researcher
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBas de Haas is a technology-driven founder and researcher at the intersection of music and software. As CEO and founder of Chordify since 2012, he has built a platform that turns any song into chords, making music education affordable and personalized. He holds a PhD in Music Information Retrieval and maintains active research as a Postdoctoral Guest Researcher at Utrecht University, exploring harmonic similarity across audio and symbolic data. A Haskell developer with a jazz guitar background, he brings strong software craftsmanship and musical intuition to both his academic and entrepreneurial work. Based in the Randstad region of the Netherlands, Bas blends 13+ years of leadership with rigorous research to transform how people learn and engage with music.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
jazz guitar, jazz guitar at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)Master, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence, Master, Cognitive Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University
English, Dutch
Github Skills (11)
chord-diagram10
piano9
parsing9
music9
midi9
synthesizer8
audio8
hyphenation8
haskell2
julia2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
chordify/HarmTrace-Base
Sep 2012 - Sep 2019
HarmTrace Base: Parsing and unambiguously representing musical chords
Contributions:132 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 years 1 month
chord-diagramsynthesizerhyphenationmidichords
haas/harmtrace
Aug 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
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