Software engineer Bay Area, California

Steven Murr

Native apps. AI systems. Audio.

Previously Microsoft. Now building independent tools for work and creativity.

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Selected work

Independent projects · In development

Native Mac apps

A connected family
of Mac tools

Apps that share tools and context, with explicit permissions.

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Talkie's native Mac interface showing scheduled agents and project approval controls. — Talkie · An agent workspace for the Mac

Topside

Files, editing, and a terminal in one native workspace.

Clipboard

Find what you copied. Preview it without leaving your flow.

Axon mastering plugin showing its processing chain, EQ curves, bass-mono controls, and level meters. — Axon · Adaptive mastering plugin in development

Audio & machine learning

From mixing research
to a mastering plugin

Neural Mixing Console explores learned mixing. That work led into Axon and EQDS.

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A working demo

Wheel

A native Mac browser with agent-driven workflows.

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Watch the original Wheel demo on YouTube

More tools & systems

Windex Search infrastructure for agents Harness A resumable coding-agent runtime Launcher Mac navigation & persistent terminals Orca A terminal client for agent backends

Experience

Microsoft · 2016–2023

2022–2023

Search Relevance

Made inconsistent LLM search results traceable to individual pipeline stages.

2020–2022

Intelligence Services

Operated Cortana services across five regions and millions of daily requests.

2016–2020

Cortana Speech

Built speech-data and studio tools that cut quality investigations from days to minutes.

Merged contributions

libghostty-spm NVIDIA Dynamo Keras

Music & film

Records, films,
and the tools behind them.

I’ve produced records and worked on four released independent films.

Listen to my Shadows in Mind score