Ayan Shafqat is a motivated, curious, and creative engineer with many years of experience in software development. Highly skilled in software engineering principles, optimizing algorithms, embedded systems, digital signal processing, and systems architecture. Shares a passion for music, systems software development, exploring new programming languages, operating system kernel, and high‐performance computing. Enjoys using libre and open‐source technologies and occasionally takes part in their development.

Some of Ayan's work include:

1. Ardour: A libre Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), maintained by a diverse community ofdevelopers. Collaborated to optimize Ardour’s mix engine for Intel/AMD CPU with SSE, AVX, AVX512, and FMA extension. Also, optimized for ARMv8 and ARMv7 CPU with NEON extension. [commits]
2. GuitarFx: An open source music instrument effects SDK
3. RtUtil: Maintain a free, cross‐platform, cli application for audio recording and playback. This project used C++17, CMake, conan C++ package manager, along with rtaudio for real‐time prortable audio I/O library.