Geert Bevin is a programmer, musician, instrument designer, author, speaker and open-source contributor. He is the principle software engineer and co-designer of the LinnStrument, heads up software and iOS at Moog Music, created the SendMIDI and ReceiveMIDI tools, created Geco MIDI for gestural music and GameWAVE for gestural gaming, worked on the Eigenharp, pioneered and contributed to Gentoo Linux, created the innovative web framework RIFE, and spent more than 15 years doing scalability and bytecode manipulation in Java. Geert plays the guitar and actively studies new musical instruments. He composes, arranges, sings and performs solo as well as with his band Flytecase.