Casimiro聽Ferreira
Lead Software Engineer at OpenVoiceOS (Stichting OVOS)
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolCasimiro Ferreira is a lead software engineer and founder with nine years of experience building voice assistant platforms and privacy-focused AI products from the Raspberry Pi to cloud services. He leads OpenVoiceOS and Tigre G贸tico, bringing deep hands-on expertise in voice stacks, TTS integration (including Amazon Polly), skill management, and conversational systems contributed to prominent open-source projects like Mycroft Core. Casimiro has a track record of turning proprietary systems into BSD-licensed, extensible frameworks鈥攔ewriting NeonCore and creating plugin systems for transformers, translation, and question-solving. His work spans full-stack web and embedded development, custom scripting languages for skills, local UIs, and Dockerized microservices, with notable success launching a Kickstarter-backed smart assistant. Based in Braga, Portugal, he blends entrepreneurial drive with practical engineering, favoring open source collaboration (GitHub: "<3 open source") and pragmatic tool-building over academic credentials.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Unfinished, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade do MinhoUnfinished, Physics, Unfinished, Physics at Universidade de Coimbra
Github Skills (10)
adaptor10
nlp10
adaptation10
python10
natural-language-processing10
adapter10
skill10
api8
machine-learning8
apidoc8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JarbasHiveMind/HiveMind-community-docs
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
OpenVoiceOS/ovos-skill-date-time
Oct 2022 - Mar 2025
OpenVoiceOS Date and Time Skill, providing the current time, date and day of week for cities around the world.
Contributions:7 reviews, 126 PRs, 122 pushes in 2 years 6 months
date-timedaymycroftcurrent-time
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