Our Mission

Our mission is to create technologies and products that set trends in the audio industry through high quality, usability, ease of use and availability for creators both amateurs and professionals.

Our team consists of engineers, musicians and scientists who are characterized by creative thinking and a common passion for developing new technologies. We share a common goal: stable growth and creation of high-quality products.

Our mission is clear! 

​Bring life back to music recording

Company Background

ZYLIA develops innovative, world-class recording technologies and turns them into products that improve the lives of musicians and audio creatives. With a passionate and dedicated team of more than 20 experts in music production, audio research, software, business and product development, we craft and deliver products which redefine and revolutionize the way sound and musical performances are recorded and produced.

ZYLIA was founded in 2012 by Piotr Szczechowiak (COO) and Tomasz Żernicki (CTO) - both remarkable PhDs with extensive experience in academia and the industry. For the past years we have been fully focused on crafting, prototyping, testing and refining new audio products - all in close collaboration with the music and audio communities around the world.  

Almost all of our team is somehow connected to music. Whether it’s performing, writing, or producing, we know from personal experience what issues musicians face during recording sessions. The idea for Zylia came directly from our needs.
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​We didn’t want to struggle with the recording process. It takes time and expert knowledge to do it properly. If you are a typical musician, you may find that there’s hardly anything creative about it. We came up with an idea to reduce the time you need to spend on recording by using just one special device. With the ZYLIA ZM-1, we gave musicians a unique tool which brings back life to music recording. You can record an entire band, capture ambient scenes, manipulate 3D audio, separate discrete sound sources, and add unique sounds to your final mixes — all with just one microphone.
​With ZYLIA, being creative becomes easy!

Our Values

Leadership - setting trends, taking on an active role in local communities (e.g. presentations of the company's philosophy at conferences)
Hard work - taking responsibility for difficult tasks, focusing on results, commitment
Self-improvement - striving to improve skills, company processes and product quality through openness to change and constant tests, willingness to learn and develop, knowledge sharing
Honesty - fulfilling promises, telling the truth, honesty, transparency in action, trust
Creativity - think outside of the box, ingenuity, applying technology in a new context, innovation, applying new processes and new methods of problem solving, design thinking
Good manners - communicativeness - understanding the other side by building your own skills, tolerance
Courage - going beyond the comfort zone, making difficult decisions, taking challenges, creativity, openness to changes, charisma
Responsibility - ​for yourself and for others, for the work that the team is doing and completing projects 100%

Meet ZYLIA's Creators, Tomasz and Piotr

Piotr and Tomasz developed ZYLIA so that musicians and sound recording fans could focus only on making music.
Both of them have extensive industry and academic experience, in the past 10 years leading several R&D projects. They successfully managed the team which developed one of the core technologies in the MPEG 3D Audio standard.

​Together, they dreamt about recording music like never before.

Our Team

Today we have a team of more than 20 people with a great combination of expertise in audio research, software,
​business and product development. 

Piotr Szczechowiak
Co-founder, COO

​Piotr manages the day-to-day operations of the company. He has a PhD in embedded systems and makes sure that ZYLIA hardware and software fits together. He manages finances and takes care of market testing and customer relations.

Tomasz Zernicki
Co-founder, CTO

​Tomasz is the tech brain of all company-wide operations. He received a PhD in digital audio processing and is an audio expert in the ISO/IEC MPEG standardization group. Without his experience and expertise in audio processing it would not be possible to bring ZYLIA to life.

Lukasz Januszkiewicz
Audio Research Engineer

​Lukasz is a passionate audio engineer and an expert in 3D audio recording. His main research areas are audio separation algorithms and sinusoidal modelling.​

Marcin Chryszczanowicz
Research ​Engineer

As a software engineer Marcin implements key sound processing components of the ZYLIA system. He tests new algorithms and tries to squeeze out the best out of sound recordings.

Marzena Malczewska
Hardware Research ​Engineer

​Marzena is a hardware enthusiast and has the best soldering skills in the company. She takes care of parts ordering and assembles all the prototypes of ZYLIA hardware. She is a keen violin player.

Tomasz Latka
Research ​Engineer

Tomasz is an experienced developer with knowledge in embedded systems. He is responsible for the architecture of ZYLIA systems.

Andrzej Ruminski
​Audio Research Engineer

Andrzej is talented young engineer. He is studying Computer Science at Adam Mickiewicz University. He takes part in many programming contests. He is determined to be best programmer in the world. ​

Tobiasz Kabsz
​Research Engineer

Tobiasz is a software developer interested in different technologies. He supports the development of ZYLIA software and always strives to gain in-depth knowledge of whatever he is working on.

Jakub Wasilewski
Research Engineer

Jakub is a software developer. He is a huge fan of everything connected to audio - from digital sound processing and 3D audio, through music instruments and high-fidelity audio.​

Anna Czerwoniec
​Marketing Manager

Anna is responsible for marketing actions and community interaction through social media. She also runs market tests and applies Design Thinking methods into product development.
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Wiktor Guz
​Research Engineer

Wiktor is a software developer. His key areas of interest are signal processing and image recognition. In the company he is responsible for testing and improving algorithms and software. 

Piotr Slomkowski
​Mechanical Designer

Piotr is a great mechanical designer and new products enthusiast. His help is crucial in development of the ZYLIA design and manufacturing process. 

Mateusz Skrok
​Software Tester

Mateusz focuses on checking if Zylia's products work well under any condition and takes care of test documentation. As a sound engineer and musician he understands user's needs well.

Ewelina Weber
Marketing & PR Specialist

Ewelina is taking care of our media relations, as well as trade shows, conferences and other events. She is also a great enthusiast of the baritone ukulele.

Eduardo Patricio
​Sound Designer

Eduardo is a sound designer with experience in music, film and games. He holds a PhD degree from Queen’s University Belfast focused on spatial sound. He is responsible for audio-visual productions, equipment testing and external creative efforts.

Tomasz Borowiak
Junior Research Engineer

Tomasz is a software developer interested in technology and science (especially Physics). In our company he is responsible for implementing and developing algorithms. He loves playing electric guitar and listening to rock music.

Marek Kabacinski
​Software Tester

Marek ​focuses on checking if Zylia's products work well under any condition and takes care of test documentation.

Michal Huflejt
​Research Engineer

Michal is responsible for research and engineering in audio domain.  He is a curious and creative person. His interests include product development, signal processing and hardware.

Slawomir Olszewski
​​Research Engineer

Slawek is a software engineer with experience in video processing, embedded systems and drivers development. He is interested in new technologies and gadgets.

Lidia Wojciechowska
Office Manager​

Lidia is taking care of organization in our office. Her responsibilities are related to making our daily office life easier. She is interested in sports, writing and playing guitar as well as singing.  

Wojtek Blachowiak
Key Account Manager

Wojtek is a sound engineer responsible for sales actions and contact with distributors. He's a creative person, especially when it comes to creating music while traveling.

Michal Slawinski
Financial Manager

As a financial manager, Michal takes care of cash. Apart from significant experience in managerial positions in international companies he has a PhD in economics. His passion is financial analysis. Recently he plays bass guitar in a metal band.

Grzegorz Skowron
​Software Tester​

​Grzegorz is a musician and sound engineer with a cognitive science background. He is interested in human interaction with new digital technologies. As a tester, he cares about checking the details in our product design and functionality.