Tim Stonehocker

CTO at SoundHound

Santa Clara, California, United States

About Tim Stonehocker

Tim Stonehocker is CTO at SoundHound. Location: Santa Clara, California, United States.

Experienced software engineer, system architect, and technical leader. I approach software engineering as an art form, but believe that the elegant solution is not always as beautiful as the pragmatic one. I enjoy algorithms, and gravitate towards problems that have never been solved before, or systems that are pushing the limits of what others think is possible. I love bringing together and leading teams of talented people who are passionate about building disruptive technologies that improve life. I designed and implemented SoundHound's music recognition technologies, scaling the server-side systems to support over 300 million users, and have worked on other high scale systems such as Amazon's core order pipeline. Over the past decade, I've focused heavily on the Voice AI (ASR + NLU) technologies, and scaling the Houndify platform (visit houndify.com). Much of my career has been focused on evaluating technical talent, and building small teams that are capable of dramatically out-performing much larger teams. Outside of work, I am a father, husband, son, amateur musician/songwriter, and occasional activist, with a passion for spaces that connect people from diverse backgrounds and break down the typical socioeconomic, education level, ethnic/racial, or ideological walls used to separate 'us' from 'them'.

Skills

  • Algorithms
  • Software Development
  • Distributed Systems

Additional experience

  • Principal Engineer, Search Architect

    SoundHound

    September 2006 – January 2010

Education

  • B.S. Computer Science / M.A. Music (Technology focus), Stanford University