Timur Doumler is the co-host of CppCast, the number one podcast about C++, and an active member of the ISO C++ standard committee, where he currently serves as co-chair of SG21, the Contracts study group.

Timur started his journey into C++ in computational astrophysics, where he was working on cosmological simulations. After completing his PhD in astrophysics, he spent over a decade in the audio and 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 Cradle and served as the company’s CTO for three years.

Apart from audio and music technology, Timur also worked for JetBrains, first as a developer on the CLion IDE‘s C++ front-end and later as a Developer Advocate.

Currently, Timur lives in Finland, where he works as an independent C++ consultant. As a side project, he developers the Crill library. Apart from coding, he regularly gives talks at conferences and meet-ups and hosts the monthly C++ Helsinki meetup.