Timur Doumler is a software developer specialising in low-latency and real-time C++ applications. Born in Russia and raised in Germany, Timur now lives in London and works in the Low Latency team at Citadel Securities. He is also  an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee and regularly gives talks at conferences and C++ meetups.

Timur started his journey into C++ in computational cosmology, where he was working on numerical simulations of galaxy formation. After completing his PhD in astrophysics, he spent over a decade in the music technology industry.

At Native Instruments, he worked on the company’s foundational C++ libraries, the industry-leading virtual music instrument platform KONTAKT, and developed the software integration framework that later became KOMPLETE KONTROL. At ROLI, he worked on JUCE and BLOCKS, and wrote the reference implementation for the MPE Standard. He then co-founded the music tech company Cradle and served as its CTO for three years.

Outside of music technology, Timur also worked for several years at JetBrains, first as a developer on the CLion IDE‘s C++ front-end and later as a Developer Advocate.