About this episode

Jatin Chowdhury shares his journey and insights on becoming a successful audio plugin developer and freelancer.

Jatin Chowdhury is quite well known in the audio programming community for his numerous contributions: various open- and closed-source audio plugins, a few published research papers on Virtual Analog modeling, a few audio-related talks, especially at the Audio Developer Conference, insightful Medium articles on creating audio software in general, significant open-source contributions including the CLAP plugin standard and Surge Synthesizer. The list could go on on and on but you get the point: he’s both incredibly productive and highly successful while being very generous to the community with his knowledge. That’s why it was amazing to have him on the podcast! Jatin currently leads his own audio plugin company ChowDSP which provides consulting and contracting as well. During the podcast we discuss his story (which is a kind of “from hero to superhero” tale, if you ask me…), what he learnt along the way, all his current strategies, and most importantly: how you can become someone like a Jatin, a successful audio plugin developer and freelancer . I was incredibly inspired during the recording of this episode and revisiting it brought up those feelings again. ⚠️ WARNING ⚠️…

People in this episode

Host: Jan Wilczek

Guest: Jatin Chowdhury

Topics covered

• audio programming
• freelancing
• audio plugins
• career development
• community contributions

Keywords

• audio programming
• freelancing
• audio plugins
• ChowDSP
• Jatin Chowdhury
• community contributions
• Virtual Analog modeling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ChowDSP, Audio Developer Conference, Surge Synthesizer, CLAP plugin standard

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