Justin Parus

Justin Parus

Co-Founder & CTO at Soundry AI
Seattle, Washington, United States

Justin Parus is currently Co-Founder and CTO at Soundry AI. He has expertise as an engineering leader focused on bringing state-of-the-art technology to real products.

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Seattle’s Soundry AI Launches Text-to-Sample Generator to Revolutionize Music Creation with Y Combinator Support

Seattle-based Soundry AI, founded by Mark Buckler, Diandre Ruiz, and Justin Parus, has developed a text-to-sample generator that uses AI to help musicians create customizable music samples. The startup, part of Y Combinator's latest cohort, aims to simplify music creation and competes with companies like Suno AI and Splice by offering authentic, emotion-driven samples without copyright concerns.

Organizations

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  • Soundry AI Co-Founder & CTO 2024–present · current
  • Microsoft Senior Software Engineer 2022–2024, Software Engineer 2 2018–2022, Intern Software Engineer 2017 · past
  • Crowds + Machines Laboratory Undergraduate Research Assistant 2016 · past

Education

  • University of Michigan College of Engineering Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering · 2014–2018

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