David Allen Young
Location: California, United States
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/david-allen-young-sde
Website: advancedsoundware.com
Software Development Engineer
I am a Software Development Engineer at Advanced Soundware with over 6 years of experience engineering full stack cross-platform products. I’ve largely worked on high-performance, event-driven, multi-threaded desktop applications for MacOS and Windows using C++ and SQL but consider myself a software generalist. I am a domain expert in music, audio, and video, with extensive experience in the film and television industry, including both broadcast and post-production environments, but am eager to challenge myself and dive into new industries and tech stacks.
SKILLS
Programming Languages: C++ 20 | T-SQL | Python 3.1 | Ruby 3.5
Databases: Microsoft SQL Server 2022 | MySQL | SQLite
Frameworks: JUCE | music21 | Ruby on Rails | RubyGems | TensorFlow
Technologies: Git | FTP | HTML | CSS | Convolutional Neural Networks
Web Tools: WordPress | WooCommerce | Stripe | Google Cloud Platform
Creative Tools: Adobe Photoshop | Avid Media Composer | Avid Pro Tools | Figma
EXPERIENCE
Founder and Software Development Engineer
Advanced Soundware | Culver City, California | 03/2018 - Present (6 Years)
- Designed a music-notation-to-audio-sample indexing system that allowed our products to render from a large audio sample database with a memory footprint exponentially smaller than our competitors.
- Engineered early prototypes and secured $2M in funding.
- Helped solve complex concurrency and data-scaling problems.
- Successfully led a cross-functional team to product launch.
Broadcast and Post-Production Engineer
NBCUniversal | Universal City, California | 01/2011 - 03/2018 (7 Years)
- Installed, configured, and supported extensive audio and video post-production facilities.
- Increased workflow efficiency and delivered system uptime of 99% even during peak usage.
EDUCATION
University of California at Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Arts in Music (Theory and Composition) | Dean’s Award