“I had the good fortune to work with Adam for a year and a half, both on a greenfield project and legacy applications. In that time I learned a huge amount from him, both technically and professionally. Adam is a mine of technical knowledge, especially in Python. He is constantly learning, following blogs and podcasts to broaden his knowledge, from which he shares highlights weekly with the team. He takes responsibility for improving each code base he touches. Looking through the history of a project you'll find regular commits from Adam making fixes and improvements over and above his day-to-day work. He leads by example in following engineering best practices, and takes the time to document anything he thinks is valuable. Adam is a natural team player who keeps his eye on the project goal. He values collaboration and discussion and is invaluable in a design session. During a sprint he focuses on the goals of the team, not just his own tickets, and will readily drop what he is doing to help get something higher priority over the line. He is a natural teacher and generously shares knowledge and nuggets of wisdom, whether while pair-programming or during one of his excellent technical presentations. Perhaps in spite of this, he is very open to feedback and input from other team members, never letting ego get in the way of making the best decision for a project. As well as being a highly productive engineer, Adam is also extremely fun to work with. I truly hope I get to work with him again in the future.”
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University of Victoria
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Master's Thesis available online at UVic Dspace: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3013
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Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
Scrum Alliance
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Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Issued ExpiresCredential ID 000232646
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Flexible Scheduling for DataFlow Audio Processing
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
The notions of audio and control rate have been a pervasive feature of audio programming languages and environments. Real-time computer music systems depend on schedulers to coordinate and order the execution of many tasks over the course of time. In this paper we describe the scheduling infrastructure of Marsyas-0.2, an open source framework for audio analysis and synthesis. We describe how to support multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates while retaining the efficiency of block audio…
The notions of audio and control rate have been a pervasive feature of audio programming languages and environments. Real-time computer music systems depend on schedulers to coordinate and order the execution of many tasks over the course of time. In this paper we describe the scheduling infrastructure of Marsyas-0.2, an open source framework for audio analysis and synthesis. We describe how to support multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates while retaining the efficiency of block audio processing. In addition we show how timers and events can be abstracted and decoupled from the scheduler in an extensible way. Specific types of supported events such as control updates, implicit patching, wires and expressions are described. In addition, we show how multiple timers based on sample-time, real-time and virtual-time can be utilized. The work in this paper has been motivated by the precise handling of time in the Chuck audio programming language and therefore we show how a simple Chuck program can be expressed in the Marsyas Scripting Language (MSL).
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Compiler Construction
CSC535
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Implementation of Virtual Machines (topics course)
CSC586C
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