Team

Senior specialists, assembled per project.

Fielding is led by founder Fabian Renn-Giles and works with a trusted network of senior associates in real-time audio, DSP and product design. We bring in exactly the right specialists for each engagement — so you get a small, focused team of people who have shipped this kind of work before.

Fabian Renn-Giles

Fabian Renn-Giles

Founder & Principal Engineer

Real-time audio specialist and former lead developer of the JUCE framework, with a physics PhD from Imperial College London. Co-inventor on patents in spatial audio rendering and networked clock synchronisation, and a regular speaker at ADC, CppCon and Meeting C++.

Nick Thompson

Nick Thompson

Associate · Real-time audio & DSP

Real-time audio engineer and creator of the open-source Elementary Audio framework, with deep expertise in DSP across both native C++ and JavaScript. Nick was part of the team at a Fortune 100 technology company working on DSP.

Michael Spillane

Michael Spillane

Associate · Product & UX/UI design

Product designer specialising in audio and music-software interfaces, with past design work for companies including MOTU. Michael was part of the team at a Fortune 100 technology company working on UX/UI design.

Cesare Ferrari

Cesare Ferrari

Associate · Real-time audio engineering

Real-time software engineer with 25+ years' experience and co-designer of the Cmajor audio programming language. Cesare was sub-contracted by Fielding for low-level real-time audio network optimisation on a landmark live-entertainment venue project.

How the team works

A network, sized to the problem.

// right-sized

Many engagements are handled directly by our founder. When a project needs more hands or a different specialism, we bring in trusted associates rather than stretch beyond our depth.

// senior only

Everyone in our network is a senior practitioner who has shipped real products. No hand-offs to juniors, no learning on your budget.

// accountable

One point of contact and one party accountable for delivery — Fielding coordinates the work so you don't have to manage a loose collection of freelancers.

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