Alberto Pettarin
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Cerence AI
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolAlberto Pettarin is a Senior Principal Software Engineer based in Turin with over a decade of hands-on experience building Text-to-Speech and NLP systems in Python, C, and Lua. He has driven the transition of neural TTS research into production-grade cloud services used in millions of vehicles via Cerence’s One.Cloud, combining expertise in GPU frameworks (PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT) with containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes). His background spans academia, startups, and freelance work—founding ReadBeyond and open-sourcing practical tools like the aeneas forced-alignment library—demonstrating a long-standing commitment to free software. Alberto blends algorithmic rigor (PhD-level research, optimization work) with pragmatic engineering: from embedding Lua VMs in TTS engines to building unified Python wrappers that streamlined testing and integration. He is as comfortable profiling C code for performance as scripting complex pipelines in Python, and off-hours he’s an avid cyclist who favors problem-solving by “math and code, sometimes with power tools.”
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Engineering at University of Padova
English, Italian
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Github Skills (116)
puredata10
epub10
synthesizer10
python10
synthesis10
text-to-speech10
speech10
synchronize10
speech-synthesizer10
dtw10
audio10
srt10
cli10
speech-synthesis10
ffmpeg10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pettarin/aeneas
Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:345 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 11 months
python-librarypythonmidiaudiosynchronize
pettarin/export-kobo
Feb 2017 - Jul 2018
A Python tool to export annotations and highlights from a Kobo SQLite file.
Contributions:2 releases, 3 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 5 months
kobopythonexportannotationssqlite
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